Kucinich on the Many Reasons to Kill the Current Health Care Bill
Kucinich: Insurance industry gets $70 billion dollars a year, forces people to buy private insurance, locks in five consecutive years of double-digit premium increases.
Marjah: The Non-Existent City the Military Said We Conquered in Afghanistan
Marjah isn't even a town, but rather one of the clearest and most dramatic examples of a war of perception as outlined in the US's counter-insurgency doctrine.
Anti-Choice ConservaDems Hold Health Reform Hostage
This post was originally published on the Booman Tribune. Hotline has a helpful whip count on House members’ position on health care reform. The math sure looks complicated. We have a lot of scaredy-cat Democrats and not a few who take their marching orders from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Let me tell you something. [...]
Please, Tom Friedman: We Can’t Afford Any More Columns on “More than 100 percent clean coal”
You can’t but help admire Tom Friedman’s enthusiasm for technological innovations. The NY Times columnist and mega-bestselling author has probably interviewed more scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs about high tech clean energy ideas than anyone in the last few years. But instead of interviewing only corporate CEO’s and clean tech innovators, it’s time for Friedman to come [...]
What Is So Nuclear About Majority Rule?
During the Bush administration, “reconciliation” was used to pass the 2001 Tax Cuts, which primarily benefitted wealthy Americans. The final vote was 58 to 33. Then in 2003, Bush used reconciliation again to pass the second Bush Tax cuts, which once again primarily benefitted wealthy Americans. The final vote was 50 to 50, with Dick Cheney [...]
Working Families Still Squeezed
There were grumblings from all corners of the AFL-CIO at its winter meeting in Orlando recently. “Disappointment”, “disillusionment”, “unengaged”, these words and worse peppered press reports describing labor’s view of President Obama and the Democrats. Organized labor spent $200 million to help elect the president and support of its 15 million members is [...]
How Do You Want To Die? The Future of Health Care Depends On Your Answer.
Larry Beresford challenges the latest meme that hospice patients have declined in number recently. He notes that, among others, Tim Cousounis at Palliative Care Success and the Urban Institute’s Howard Gleckman, who wrote a recent article for Kaiser Health News, have examined hospice enrollment and concluded the same thing. It is in decline. The reasons they cite are [...]
Jon Stewart: Iraqi Elections Are a Success Because Only a Few Candidates Were Assassinated
On Monday’s Daily Show, Stewart called into question the mainstream media’s amnesiac view of Iraq’s elections. And correspondent John Oliver has a lot of people he wants to thank for the initial invasion. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Arabian Rights www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform Report This Post
NY Rep. Eric Massa Ends His Career on a Sour Note
It’s been sad to watch freshmen Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) struggles of late. Just six days ago, Massa announced he would retire due to serious health concerns. He acknowledged rumors about a pending ethics investigation, but angrily denied the allegations. A day later, his denials softened a bit, and he conceded he [...]
Wreckonciliation
Written by Rebecca Sive for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. On International Women’s Day, I imagined the White House full of cooing, hugging women, celebrating the wonder of the world’s and America’s women, and I had to ask: where’s the wonder? To coin a cliché: Where’s the beef? Here’s my beef: [...]
First Same-Sex Marriages in Our Nation’s Capital to Take Place Today: Watch Livestream
Oddly, while battles elsewhere over marriage equality for LGBT folks have garnered great attention from the national media, here in Washington, D.C. — the nation’s capital — our journey to this moment has drawn only modest interest. All this despite the ferocious opposition launched by the religious right, which even relocated its point man, Bishop [...]
Utah Governor Signs Controversial Law Charging Women and Girls With Murder for Miscarriages
Critics are worried the law will open up a Pandora's box of unintended legal consequences.
How Can We Stop Drug Gangs From Growing Pot in the Woods? Legalize Pot
The media complain about the explosion of illegal outdoor cultivation in our national parks, but have zero diagnosis about why it's happening.
Move Your Money, But Don't Forget About Credit Unions
Banking behemoths don't deserve your business. But your local credit union could be the right financial fit.
Rescued From the Brink: Inside the World's Largest Chimp Sanctuary
What happens to all those chimps who've endured hell for our benefit? The lucky few get to retire to their own private island in Florida.
Our Dirty Little Secret: Who's Really Poor in America?
The problem today for most isn't this recession, it's that except for the top 10 percent, average household income hasn't changed a bit for 10 to 20 years.
A Campaign Promise Dies: Obama and Military Commissions
At first it seemed Obama was on track to make good on his campaign promise of halting military commissions. Instead, he's reviving the same system he once abhorred.
Conservative Hall of Shame: 8 Anti-Gay Politicians and Demagogues Who Got Caught Having Gay Sex
The state senator arrested leaving a gay club joined a long and illustrious tradition of double-talking, double-living conservative figures.
Meet the Badass Group Battling a Monstrous Regime Responsible for Waging the World's Longest-Running War
In "For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question" Mac McClelland chronicles the 60-year genocide the Burmese government has waged against an ethnic minority.
What Makes the Healthiest and Happiest Societies? Hint: It's Not Wealth
Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson explains why it's equality, and not high income, that makes a society thrive.
Immigrant advocates say immigration enforcement worse under Obama
Prominent immigrant advocates launched their most sharply worded public critique yet of the Obama administration’s immigration policy.
Finally, a Documentary About Drug Pioneer Sasha Shulgin
Lucky visitors to the upcoming SXSW film festival in Austin this weekend have a chance to see the opening of a new documentary about psychedelic pioneer Dr. Sasha Shulgin titled, Dirty Pictures: “Shulgin’s alchemy has earned him the title “The Godfather of Psychedelics,” and a reputation as one of the great chemists of the 20th century. Working [...]
White House Immigration Meeting Postponed
Roll Call and others are reporting that the White House meeting President Obama and Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had scheduled for Monday afternoon was rescheduled. Apparently, Senator Graham’s flight was cancelled. “Senator Graham’s meeting with President Obama and Senator Schumer to discuss immigration reform has been postponed,” Graham’s communications director Kevin [...]
Sharks: From Hunters to Hunted, and Overfished
There are eight shark species that haven't received the media attention lavished on the high-profile bluefin -- but which, in some cases, hover even closer to extinction.
Poll: Americans Think Obama Better Than Bush on National Security And Terrorism
Looks like Liz Cheney et al. need to do a better job convincing Americans that Obama’s handling of national security issues will make the world end (from a Democracy Corps — Third Way Poll (PDF), via the Plum Line.) Report This Post
Citizen Journalism Project: How to Research the Bubble Barons’ Charitable Contributions
One of the major objectives of the bubble barons investigation is to figure out where, exactly, all that money is going. Where are these billionaires investing their money? Which politicians do they support? Which charities benefit from their largess? Today, I’m going to go over strategies for researching charitable contributions, and I’ll use my bubble baron, [...]
Friends of Convenience? Palin to Head McCain Fundraiser
Since McCain lost the election to Obama in 2008, there’s been no shortage of woe-is-me attacks from Sarah Palin, who’s made sure to repeat a series of canned talking points about how McCain staffers have unfairly portrayed her as ruefully unprepared and diva-like. While McCain has remained tight-lipped about whether or not tapping Palin to share [...]
Obama Fired Up for Health Reform: Calls Out GOP, Sees Endgame in a Few Weeks
This post was originally published in the Washington Monthly. President Obama will host two rallies in support of health care reform this week, and the first was held this morning at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. The president didn’t exactly break new ground or change the pitch in any meaningful way, but there were [...]
Rabbi Lerner’s Response to AlterNet Commenters
Editor’s Note: Last week, AlterNet ran an article that featured a piece by Chris Hedges and another by Rabbi Michael Lerner, titled: “Should Progressives Give Up on Obama?” The article incited lively debate in the comments section and now, Rabbi Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine and head of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, has penned [...]
One in Three Killed By Drones in Pakistan Is a Civilian
A new report from the New America Foundation states that one of every three people killed in the U.S.’s not-so-secret drone war in Pakistan is a civilian. The report also discloses that none of the strikes in 2009 targeted Bin Laden, and that they have had little impact on the Taliban’s ability to plan operations [...]
Pregnancy-Related Death and Illness Among Adolescents & Young Women: A Preventable Tragedy
Written by Imane Khachani for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. This article is published in honor of International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2010. Approximately 99 percent of the 529,000 annual deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth occurs among women living in low and middle-income countries. Their lifetime risk of maternal death [...]
Are Republicans Dumb Enough to Campaign Against Health Reforms Once They Pass?
This post was originally published on the Booman Tribune. I wonder if this is a bluff: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said in a press briefing at the Ronald Reagan Republican Center today that his party will offer repeated points of order on the Senate floor challenging the legitimacy of budget reconciliation items in a package of fixes [...]
Florida Lawmaker Attempts To Deny Tax Credit To Movies Filmed With Gay Characters
This post was originally published on Think Progress. Lawmakers in Florida are hoping to pass a $75 million incentive package to attract movie studios to film in Florida, but a little noticed provision could deny tax credits to movies that feature gay or other “nontraditional family values.” Florida’s Entertainment Industry Economic Development Act would revise the current [...]
The Redeemed Immigrant: NY Gov. Makes Exception to Corrupt Rules
Cross-posted from RaceWire By Michelle Chen After the mistakes he made as a kid nearly got him kicked out of the country, Qing Hong Wu has gotten a precious second chance. Embattled New York Governor David Paterson took a brief respite from a maelstrom of political scandal to act as the good samaritan this weekend: Paterson’s pardon [...]
A Prayer for Change
Aung San Sun Kyi, Nelson Mandella, Chief Joseph, Harvey Milk — teach us! Revolution aint what it used to be. Emma Goldman, Cesar Chavez, Leonard Peltier, Sojourner Truth –teach us! The President used the word “change” to stop it. The change we seek couldn’t be clearer, but it is mimicked by Presidents and corporate marketing. [...]
Challenging Obama’s Bush-Alike War Policies
I hate to admit that neocon stalwart Robert Kagan can be right about anything. But it’s hard to argue with his latest observation in the Washington Post: “A broad bipartisan consensus is emerging in one unlikely area: foreign policy. … Obama has been fighting the war on terror at least as vigorously as his predecessor.” Of [...]
What Obama and the DOJ Can Learn From the Right
On March 2, “Keep America Safe,” the neo-con think tank run by Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol, released a video demanding information about a group of Obama administration lawyers it labeled “the al-Qaeda Seven.” Since these lawyers once voluntarily represented Guantanamo inmates, K.A.S. argued, their continued practice jeopardizes the safety of American families. Six days later, [...]
The Women I Love (on International Women’s Day): Agitators Who Stand Up to Big Coal
“In the US Senate, Mother Jones was once called the ‘grandmother of all agitators.’ She replied that it was her desire to one day be the ‘great-grandmothers of all agitators.’”–Mother Jones On International Women’s Day, let us now praise the muckrakers, the agitators, the coal mining women, the organizers, the fearless ones willing to stand up [...]
Oscar Makes History: Woman Wins Best Director
I don’t much care whether or not Kathryn Bigelow is a good feminist in “the personal is political” sense of the term: At last night’s Academy Awards she won a great victory for all women when she stepped up to the stage to collect her Oscar for Best Director for her film, “The Hurt Locker,” [...]
Utah Continues Reckless Efforts to Lock Up Pregnant Women
Written by Lynn Paltrow for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. On Thursday, a Utah legislator withdrew a bill that would have allowed sentences of up to life in prison for a woman who experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth as a result of her “reckless” behavior. This move has been attributed [...]
Why It’s Time to Stop Trusting the IMF
If you believe what the IMF says … you must be an executive with Goldman Sachs. No, wait, I take that back. You must be Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke. No wait you must be Hank Paulson and Alan Greenspan. Yeah, that’s who you would have to be [...]
Does “Asian America” leave some Asian Americans behind?
By Keith Kamisugi, Communications Director, Equal Justice Society, Race-Talk contributor I had lunch a few months ago with Bill Tamayo, the regional attorney in San Francisco for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We both have roots in Hawai‘i. Tamayo is a second-generation Filipino American. I’m a fourth-generation Japanese American. Many would consider us both “Asian American.” [...]
Sarah Palin and Other Republican Stars Still Fetishize the Gipper — What Would He Think of Them?
This post was originally published on the Booman Tribune. While Friedrich Nietzsche was often critical of Judaism, he was also a virulent opponent of the rising anti-Semitic political movement in Germany. For example, he wrote the following in a letter to his sister because he objected to her relationship with Bernhard Förster, whom she later married: It is [...]
Compassionate Conservative Tom DeLay: People Don’t Have Jobs Because They’re Too Lazy to Work
Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay — who’s clearly earned the right to pass moral judgement — has an explanation for the high rates of unemployment that continue to plague the economy despite rosy predictions of recovery: the problem rests with the unemployed, of course — and the Democratic lawmakers who insist on sapping the [...]
Pack Your Bags: Travel as a Political Act
Travel connects people with people. It helps us fit more compatibly into a shrinking world. And it inspires creative new solutions to persistent problems facing our nation.
Will Stupak Derail Reform?
This post was originally published in the Washington Monthly. At various times throughout the health care reform process, various figures have been at the center of the universe. For a while, it was Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine.). Then Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). In December, all eyes were on Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.). In the home stretch, let [...]
Outrageous: Mitt Romney Accuses Obama of Supporting 9/11 Truthers Abroad
This post was written by Max Bergmann for Think Progress. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s foreign policy mythology book tour continued on Fox News Sunday this morning. Romney started his interview saying that President Obama had engaged in an “apology tour.” This has been a standard conservative talking point in response to the massive positive shift [...]
Hey Academy Awards Voters, “Inglourious Basterds” Is a Great Film
(In honor of tonight’s Academy Awards, which I probably won’t watch, I’m cross-posting my review of Inglourious Basterds here.) possible spoilers These are the last words in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, and they’re so gloriously cocky spilling from the lips of Brad Pitt as Tarantino’s doppelganger, Lt. Aldo Raine: brash, foul-mouthed, scarred and uglied up and from [...]
Are Smaller Condoms a Better Idea for Teens?
According to the CDC almost 50% of American teens have had sex. Of those, 61% used a condom the last time they did. That’s pretty significant number of kids to be practicing safe sex. But what if despite their best efforts, the condoms these kids were using just weren’t working out for them? Switzerland, at least, [...]
Will White House Motion Lead to Progress on Immigration Reform?
The Los Angeles Times had the story Thursday evening that the Obama administration – including the President himself – was beginning to stir on immigration reform: Despite steep odds, the White House has discussed prospects for reviving a major overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, a commitment that President Obama has postponed once already. Obama took up [...]
Virginia Attorney General Instructs State Colleges to Stop Protecting Gay Students From Discrimination
This post first appeared on Think Progress. Just weeks after Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) refused to renew an executive order that would have protected gay and lesbian state workers from discrimination, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is asking the state’s colleges and universities “to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.” Cuccinelli [...]
Why 3-Year-Olds Can Recognize Food Brands
This post first appeared on Food Politics. I’m not sure why this would be news to anyone who has taken a toddler to a grocery store, but researchers at the University of Michigan have now demonstrated that very young children recognize food brands, especially McDonald’s. Didn’t Morgan Spurlock show this in Supersize Me! (also my screen [...]
Climate Change Legislation Isn’t Dead — A New Bill Is Coming
Climate legislation is returning to the Senate’s docket, and leaders on Capitol Hill are hoping that this version, a compromise bill spearheaded by Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), can pass without getting caught in the morass of money and politics that has delayed action so far. A long, long time [...]
Climate Change Legislation Isn’t Dead — A New Bill Is Coming
Climate legislation is returning to the Senate’s docket, and leaders on Capitol Hill are hoping that this version, a compromise bill spearheaded by Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), can pass without getting caught in the morass of money and politics that has delayed action so far. A long, long time [...]
Why Water Pollution Rates Are Rising and Corporate Polluters Are Getting a Free Pass
Things are going in the wrong direction these days when it comes to water pollution and New York Times writers Charles Duhigg and Janet Roberts explain that the reason has to do with an unfortunate legal loophole. They write: Thousands of the nation’s largest water polluters are outside the Clean Water Act’s reach because the Supreme [...]
The F Word: Challenging “High Road” Contracting
This is what must make it hard for people working inside the Obama administration. No sooner does the White House start talking up something good, than it does something bad. Take contracting. As reported here on GRITtv, the Obama’s administration’s been talking up “High Road Contracting.” That’s the using of the power of the government’s [...]
Denny’s Apologizes for Ad That Critics Say Made Light of the Irish Potato Famine
The breakfast chain Denny’s apologized yesterday for an advertisement that critics say made light of the Irish Potato Famine. “Denny’s has a history of using humor in its television advertising,” the company said in a statement. “It is certainly not the intention of the company to offend anyone or any group, and we apologize if [...]
Dave Matthews Headlines Blockbuster Concert to End Mountaintop Removal
“The green rolling hills of West Virginia Are the nearest thing to heaven that I know But someday I’ll go back to west Virginia To the green rolling hills I love so well Yes someday I’ll go home And I know I’ll right the wrong These trouble times will follow me no more”–”Green Rolling Hills,” Utah Phillips So-called “green” music festivals and [...]
If You Believe Dinosaurs Walked the Earth With Cavemen, Of Course You Think Climate Change is Fake
Those who challenge the teaching of creationism — the notion that the authoritative text for the explanation for the earth’s creation is the Book of Genesis — as science in public schools have rightly focused on the First Amendment’s mandate for separation of church and state as the basis of their legal claims. But that emphasis [...]
Jon Stewart: “Rapture” Is the GOP’s Last Chance at Stalling Health Reform
On The Daily Show Thursday (3/4/10), Stewart discovered the Republicans’ new “nuclear option:” With all other options exhausted and reconciliation seemingly imminent, the GOP has made “Rapture” its ‘R word’ of choice. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Med Menace www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform Report This Post
Home Births Rise in U.S. And It’s Not Because of Ricki Lake
Written by Amie Newman for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. For women who choose to go through pregnancy and childbirth, the freedom to choose where and with whom to birth is not always immediately accessible. Before childbirth in hospitals became the norm, women birthed at home, under the care of [...]
Why are We Afraid to Create the Jobs We Need?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that as of February 2010, the unemployment rate stands at 9.7 percent, and the official jobless rate is 16.7 percent, which also counts those who have stopped looking for work and those who have been forced into part-time work. See Bureau of Labor Statistics [An extended unemployment bill] “doesn’t [...]
Also About Us: South Asians and Civil Rights
By Nisha Agarwal, Director of the Health Justice Program at NYLPI, Race-Talk contributor Every year, the South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY) awards fellowships to law students who will be pursuing unpaid summer internships in the public interest. The fellowship winners are recognized at a reception, where an experienced South Asian public interest attorney [...]
How Low Will They Stoop? Conservative Website Breitbart Links ACORN to the White Terrorist Organization the Ku Klux Klan
Sometimes I just shake my head in dismay. As I have asserted many times in my writings here and elsewhere, one of the great divides in this country–a divide that resonates throughout our political culture–is the force of memory and history. At our best, Black and Brown folks, our Native American brothers, Jewish folk, and [...]
Controversy Grows over Study Claiming Liberals and Atheists Are Smarter
The author of a study claiming liberals and atheists are smarter than conservatives and believers is called 'great idiot of social science' by prominent evolutionary biologist.
Rise of the Superbugs: Why We Are Increasingly at Risk From Antibiotic-Resistant Diseases
The evidence is overwhelming that these new superbugs are at least partially a result of dosing farm animals with subtherapeutic doses of antibiotics added to their feed.
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
A Personal Note on Sewage Sludge as Compost
Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “organic compost.” This piece has a particularly personal significance to me as a gardener and as an unofficial stepmother. Our garden is our food supply, but it’s also a play area and learning environment for my [...]
