We Serve It, Even When It's Hard To Swallow
Everyone’s buzzing about this week’s viral video of a boat of tourists being pelted and swamped by large chunks of ice from a calving glacier during a sightseeing tour in the Tracy Arm Fjords near Juneau, Alaska. The video from one of the boat’s passengers shows the awesome power created by the falling glacier ice, [...]
Al Gore is mad. Really mad. Can’t say I blame him. I’ve never heard him rant before, but it’s kind of therapeutic to hear it, and I’m right there with him. This country is devolving into something I don’t even recognize anymore and it’s nice to hear someone of his prominence let loose. At the [...]
What do we value? We need to begin to talk about these things before they vanish before our eyes and our children are left with a broken and damaged country, and without the education to know what we were, and without knowing the potential we are letting slip right through our fingers. Before, for the first time in our history, we do things just a little worse than before. Before we leave our children with a broken country and a hopeless future.
During one of my countless daily exchanges with right-wing nutjobs, an individual who identified himself as a “patriotic tea partier,” claimed that the evil Koch brothers have been victimized by the “lamestream media” (Tundra Twit talking point if I ever heard one) and that they are “true patriots” and misunderstood. Rather than engage in a [...]
Did you know that it’s legal to raise goats, chickens and bees within Chicago city limits? Me neither. That being the case, Carolyn Ioder, a Chicago resident, is doing just that in order to lead a more “green” lifestyle and consume more locally produced foods such as honey, goat milk, goat cheese, and eggs. When interviewed by [...]
…and can safely say that even a Norwegian can be a murderous nutjob. My cousin just told me that her daughter lost a good friend on Utoya island during last week’s horrific massacre of children, and my other cousin’s wife was blown off of her chair from the impact of the bomb blast in downtown [...]
Conservatives in general are racked by anxiety. It’s ironic, given the common perception that Republicans are the tough guys with the cowboy swagger, that it’s Republicans who scatter like they’ve just seen a mouse when they come upon Arabs or gays or feminists or any other species of ‘the Other.’ Right-wingers have defective brains that misfire and [...]
…and whether to rent, buy or just go live in a wood hut. Of course, my wood hut is located on a tropical beach, complete with tiled floors, a flat screen television, walk-in shower, solar panels, and enough room for the kids, dogs and my aging parents — but not necessarily in that order. Simple [...]
I’ve been thinking since the Murdoch scandal broke that as investigators continued digging, both here and abroad, this story had the potential to explode, and if there’s any truth to this following accusation, it could be that the fuse has now been lit. It all centers around Neil Wallis, who was the executive editor of [...]
Greenpeace has released a report titled “Polluting Democracy: Coal Plays Dirty on the Hill,” which names the top 15 congressional members who have fought hard to fight the EPA’s attempts at improving pollution standards from coal-fired power plants. It should come as no surprise that the report points out that all but one of the [...]
Who knew picking up doggy poop could be so sexy and entertaining? Set to the tune of the Blackstreet’s classic hit “No Diggity,” the video was made to raise awareness about efforts in Puget Sound to improve water quality by picking up the doo!
Here at The Stew, we’re pretty fond of the Other 98%, a genuine grassroots movement aimed at making government and democracy work for the little guys like me and you – the other 98% – not the moneyed interests that are twisting and distorting government policies to serve their own greedy interests. The Other 98% [...]
Have you always wanted to live somewhere that was completely energy independent? Let’s move to El Hierro, an island within the Canary Islands! By the end of this year, El Hierro will have everything set up and ready to go. Through a wind farm, a hydroelectric plant, grid-connected photovoltaics, and solar thermal collectors, this small [...]
Pretty soon, there isn’t going to be one strip of land on this god-forsaken planet that hasn’t been stripped bare and hollowed out for profit – all at the expense of that seemingly disposable nuisance we know as nature. Case in point: Lakshmi Mittal, a British billionaire now planning to build an Arctic mega-mine to [...]
I have to hand it to Greenpeace. As a Star Wars fan, blogger, and someone who is concerned about the environment, I am incredibly entertained and impressed with the global environmental group’s creative efforts to not only call out one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers on polluting our planet, but used the company’s popular [...]
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