From the daily archives: Sunday, August 24, 2008

Biden on environmental issues

On August 24, 2008 By

This concise article showed up in Grist Magazine today.

Here is Grist’s analysis. Biden on the issues.

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Western Turf, Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching

On August 24, 2008 By

Mike Hudak has written a book about what it is like for the citizen-activists who are fighting the livestock industry over livestock abuses on your western public lands. It can be pretty dangerous, especially to your job.

Review of the book. The Politics of Public Lands Ranching. Western Turf Wars. By Jamie Newlin. Counterpunch.

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey