by Gil Friend | May 19, 2003 | Sustainability
We’re all for it, Eric and I decided as we were talking tonight. But the anti-abortion folk, who’ve stolen the term, don’t do it justice. They want to see Scott Peterson tried for double murder, since there was a fetus killed as well as a mother....
by Gil Friend | May 18, 2003 | Sustainability
Commercial Fleets Reduced Big Fish by 90%, Study Says. In just 50 years, the global spread of industrial-scale commercial fishing has cut by 90 percent the oceans’ population of large predatory fishes. By Andrew C. Revkin. [New York Times: Science] The signs...
by Gil Friend | May 15, 2003 | Sustainability
[Financial Times]: “There is no point tying yourself into knows trying to get to the right of the decimal point.”. Stewart Myers, MIT prof, and co-author Principles of Corporate Finance] He was discussing analysis of the “cost of capital,” in...
by Gil Friend | May 13, 2003 | Sustainability
Why Is Jonathan Simms Still Alive?. As a result of mad-cow disease, this 18-year-old lost the ability to move or speak, and his doctors said he would soon lose his life. But his father had other ideas. By Lisa Belkin. [New York Times: Science] Quite a powerful story...
by Gil Friend | May 13, 2003 | Sustainability
[Edmonton Journal]: GM crop case heads to top court: Farmer appealed order of $173K to Monsanto The Supreme Court of Canada says it will review the case of Percy Schmeiser, a Saskatchewan farmer who is challenging one of the world’s largest biotechnology...
by Gil Friend | May 11, 2003 | Sustainability
The Gallon Report: What is amazing is that high-priced lawyers and well-trained electrical engineers have made such poor decisions leading to hundreds of millions of dollars in additional costs plus environmental degradation. The environmentalists within the Ministry...
