by Gil Friend | Jan 3, 2003 | Sustainability
The Forgotten Forest Product: Water. New national-forest planning regulations should specify that the remaining old-growth public forests should not be harvested, since these wild lands provide the cleanest water in the country. By Mike Dombeck. [New York Times:...
by Gil Friend | Dec 30, 2002 | Politics
Remembering the Permanent Opposition of H. L. Mencken. Every generation needs an observer as critical of the provinciality and double standards of the moment as Mencken was of those in his own time. By Verlyn Klinkenborg. [New York Times: Opinion] Best line in the...
by Gil Friend | Dec 27, 2002 | Uncategorized
A thoughtful and important reflection A Toast to Moral Clarity. Moral clarity, however scarred it may often be by nebulousness, inconsistency and even hypocrisy, is still preferable to moral opacity. By Nicholas D. Kristof. [New York Times: Opinion] And rather than...
by Gil Friend | Dec 26, 2002 | Sustainability
G.E. Research Returns to Roots. A team of researchers for G.E. are hoping to usher in an era of cheap, clean-burning lights, batteries, solar cells and the beginning of plastic-based electronics. By Claudia H. Deutsch. [New York Times: Science] For G.E., that change...
by Gil Friend | Dec 25, 2002 | Politics
How the Web Will Change Campaigns. Eventually, the Web will be indispensable for elections, if only for one reason: campaign finance reform. By Matthew Hindman. [New York Times: Opinion]
