It has taken awhile—probably much longer than it should have—but the pieces for a sustainable society are falling into place.  Wind turbines...

The day after the election, Bloomberg reported some numbers calculated by the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group fighting for greater...

The moneychangers have been having quite the run.  These days, they are jerking around democratically-elected governments as if debtors have...

When a guy named Evans-Pritchard at the Telegraph starts using a term like Sado-Monetarists, it is time for the rest of us to play attentio...

It has been my experience that there is literally no group more institutionally insensitive to environmental concerns than the military.  Th...

Or, Why we can't afford nice things. As the celebration of Armistice Day rolls around again, the tiny fraction of the population that...

gloriasb on DailyKos points to the a buried paragraph in a New York Times article : After his speech, Mr. Obama tried to call both Mr. ...

The saga-tellers of the Viking past would much approve of crowd-sourced epic poetry.  Ever wonder why Vikings are occasionally grim?  Just r...

For those into statistics enough to truly enjoy the movie  Moneyball , the performance of Nate Silver during this latest presidential campai...

For those not old enough to remember, 1972-73 saw a grain deal with USSR to cover one of their wheat shortages.  They bought so much wheat, ...

On one hand, the fact that nations are getting involved with trade wars over solar panels means that at least folks are serious about PV.  O...

As much as I love the precision that scientists use to describe the world, I have never been convinced that they should actually talk that w...

I don't want my readers to get the impression that I woke up this morning, saw that the Democrats still didn't have a supermajority ...

Four years ago, I got the assignment of driving around some friends out to celebrate the victory of Obama and a lot of other Democrats.  It ...

 A week ago, Matt Stoller provoked a lot of discussion with his The Progressive Case Against Obama , a masterful accounting of this administ...

Yes, I know that I rarely quote Paul Krugman even though I agree with him at least 80% of the time.  He already has the pulpit of the New Yo...

When the camera crews leave after a natural disaster, there is a tendency for most of us to believe that somehow things will get better.  We...

One of the strategies of a solar-powered society is to give price breaks to folks who can "make hay while the sun shines."  When t...

What a complete surprise.  I mean, who could have predicted that pulling money out of the real economy would lead to unemployment?  That has...