Posted by Julia Bovey in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
My husband stepped on a bee and now he's icing his foot. I could not get up to help him, as I am bandaged and resigned to bed having just had a massive poisonous spider bite cut out of my...continued→
Posted by Julia Bovey in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
The Senate Energy Bill passed without the provisions that would have made biofuels cleaner while also making sure growing crops to make them doesn't mean bulldozing Redwoods to grow corn. That stinks. The excuse/reason is that Senate leadership wanted a...continued→
Posted by Julia Bovey in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
Ah, dear irony.... last night I sat under a clear starry sky and watched the Detroit Tigers make mincemeat of my adopted team, whose play on the field makes you want to make like their mascot and SCREECH.Meanwhile, mere blocks...continued→
Posted by Julia Bovey in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
If the war over energy policy -- particularly miles-per-gallon (know in insider jargon as CAFE standards) -- was determined by newspaper editorials, today we would proclaim victory. The drumbeat of support has grown louder and louder, and now even papers...continued→
Posted by Julia Bovey in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
Anyone who still believes that conservatives are tough task masters and liberals just want to have fun hasn’t been to Washington lately! Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is threatening to spoil our vacation…"It’s our last week here before the July recess,...continued→
