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Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Make space for public lands, right to recreate

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Beaver Dam State Park Different people feel differently the pinch of the federal government shutdown in the United States.  (All photos from...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

'The Shipbreakers' (2000) is classic Langewiesche; Hong Kong ship-breaking convention enters force

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William Langewiesche, 2007 Internaz via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Journalist  William Langewiesche died at age 70 in June ( N.Y. Times ). I ca...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

Kuwait ponders a future after fossil fuels

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Kuwait City skyline Kuwait is an oil country, and Kuwait City glows with prosperity. Kuwaitis know, though, that they can't ride the oil...
Monday, September 23, 2024

IP, business stories of Tupperware bankruptcy minimize female marketing pioneer, dangers of plastics

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Brownie Wise on Business Week in 1954 via America Comes Alive ; © fair use The Tupperware bankruptcy has been much in the news , though the ...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Contemporary sculpturist comments on Ukraine war

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Lakenen considers the war in Ukraine in this 2022 sculpture. A couple of weeks ago, I visited artist Tom Lakenen's Lakenenland , a sculp...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Town asserting 'full-on assault of stink' wins latest round in nuisance feud with hot-mix asphalt maker

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Quarry and asphalt manufacturing facility in England. Richard Law via Wikimedia Commons GNU 1.2 An asphalt plant that residential neighbors...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken holds her own

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U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Today, March 10, is the International Day of Women Judges , and I want to ...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Big Ag plays Goliath in film about GMO-seed litigation

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A worthwhile movie you might have missed during the pandemic is Percy vs. Goliath (2020), starring Christopher Walken and Zach Braff, invol...