The just food debate – Sept 10
-The Problem With ‘Eat Local’
-James McWilliams’ over-hyped and undercooked anti-locavore polemic
-Just Food
Health
Whack!
The next case of $120 oil, assuming we get there before the industrial economy falls into the abyss, will be brutal for an already over-stretched American consumer. Banks are falling like dominoes on a mule cart over the bumpy terrain of declining energy supplies. When will the lights go out?
The Ethics of Sustainable Healthcare Reform
[T]he present healthcare system is unsustainable for two sets of (interconnected) reasons, fiscal and ecological. The fiscal side receives attention in the current debate, but most discussion underestimates the problems and proposes solutions that provide little more than temporary band-aids… Our collective understanding of the ecological dimension is abysmal, especially its connection to the economy, and if grasped would lead to the abandonment of politics and business as usual in medicine and throughout society.
What Bicyclists Really Want
This episode of Equal Time Radio mostly discusses Jeff Mapes’ book Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities with the author, plus Vermont cycling issues.
What does the Organic Label Really Mean?
We take a look at recent questions regarding Organic Foods and Organic Regulations. Our guests include organic advocates, industry officials, and former members of federal regulations in organic food & agriculture.
United States – Aug 19
-Oil lobby to fund campaign against Obama’s climate change strategy
-‘Energy Citizens’ Take Aim at Climate Legislation
-An American neocon defends the NHS
-Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill
Organic food debate continues – Aug 18
-Pesticides in your peaches
-The obvious advantage of organic food over conventional
-A debate about soil, organics, and nutrition
Health care reform – Aug 12
-Will Health Care Slip on Oil?
-Obama: Health Care Critics Creating ‘Boogeymen’ That ‘Aren’t Real’
-Facts, fallacies on what is buried on legislation’s pages
Food & agriculture – July 31
-With House food-safety bill a done deal, questions remain
-Organic food ‘no better for health than factory-farmed food’ says report
-Bill would restrict antibiotics in food animals
San Francisco peak oil task force report
San Francisco was born at the beginning of the oil age, and the city has flourished during an era in which fossil fuels became the foundation of our economy and society…Today, the City and its inhabitants are utterly reliant on fossil fuel energy: 84% of the energy consumed in San Francisco comes from oil and natural gas.
Debt, oil and healthcare reform
…the ongoing healthcare debate in Washington is anachronistic. A future oriented analysis has to include two driving forces: first, the long-term consequences of the fiscal/economic crisis and, second, the arrival of geological peak oil…
