August 13, 2008 – 9:09 am
Interesting article from Friedman on how well the Danes have done with energy compared to the rest of us. My favourite bit: We are going to introduce a new tax reform in the direction of even higher taxation on energy and the revenue generated on that will be used to cut taxes on personal income [...]
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February 23, 2008 – 6:40 am
No, not what some of you are thinking, it’s actually a technique in commercial fishing where you drag your net across the bottom of the sea to catch bottom-dwelling fish, crustaceans etc. Treehugger have a picture of what this looks like in the Gulf of Mexico, and it’s quite amazing.
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January 30, 2008 – 10:34 am
AmericaBlog passes on details of a report on the levels of pesticides found in children: The peer-reviewed study found that the urine and saliva of children eating a variety of conventional foods from area groceries contained biological markers of organophosphates, the family of pesticides spawned by the creation of nerve gas agents in World War [...]
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January 8, 2008 – 11:09 am
Yesterday I talked about the strange system we have for converting large quantities of natural resources into small quantities of amusement. Today, a solution! OK, not really. I don’t think anyone has a solution, or rather I don’t think anyone knows they have a solution (using ‘know’ to indicate fact, rather than internal certainty). But [...]
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January 7, 2008 – 7:42 am
In an earlier post I discussed the trade in trivialities that fills containers between China and the rest of the world. I noted that the natural reflex might be to stop buying such things, but to do so would abandon those people who depend on that trade for their living (indeed, their lives). Marty further [...]
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