First HR 875 and now it's equally ugly cousin. Continue Reading

I remember awhile ago I was thinking about how efficient it would be to put a receiving facility on the outskirts of a town in order to receive shipments coming into the town. I also realized you would need environmentally friendly vehicles to take the incoming shipments and then distribute them throughout the town. Apparently, [...] Continue Reading

When people hear hemp they immediately think hippies and bongs and the apocalypse.  Well, some people think that–mostly idiots.  Fortunately, U.S. states are starting to abandon antiquated assumptions about hemp, and instead, are starting to realize it as a legitimate and budding industry with great potential to not just create jobs, but lessen the load [...] Continue Reading

Philly recently replaced 500 of its 700 downtown garbage cans with new, BigBelly solar-powered trash compactors.   The switch will save the city $875,000 annually, which goes to show little things can have big implications.  Streets Commissioner Clarena Tolson also notes that the garbage cans will only have to be emptied 5 times a week rather [...] Continue Reading

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”~ Che Guevara Imagine, for a minute, an oil company coming into your town to pump out all the black gold from an oil well that was recently discovered.  They come with their cranes and drills and build a big refinery.  You know it [...] Continue Reading

A better approach towards agriculture or the first steps towards a agrocorp monopoly of the food industry? Continue Reading

Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson established the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in an effort to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans. Each winter the Sea Shepherd team and a group of volunteers head out to sea to protect these animals. Through innovative direct-action tactics, Watson and his fellow conservationists [...] Continue Reading