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But most of our products aren’t splitting apart and crashing to the ground!

“Other turbines owned by that customer and our other customers at various locations in the U.S. are operating without interruption.” — India’s Suzlon Energy Ltd., the world’s fifth-largest wind turbine […]

Friday music blogging: Jamey Johnson

There was a time when I, like all right-thinking people, rejected country music unconditionally, in all its forms, in whole and in part, with passion and righteous fury. My cautionary […]

One more communique dribbles in from the gamma quadrant

You don’t see super-wingnutty stuff like this very often in the mainstream media any more. This was my favorite bit: But didn’t the Nobel Peace Prize go last year to […]

Snippets from the news

• Potent greenhouse gas more prevalent than thought. • Environmental activists were “suspected of involvement in terrorism.” • Toys containing banned substances are still on the market. • Asian beetle […]

Small change

“It’s not insignificant, but it’s the cost of a paint shop in an auto factory.” — David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Michigan, on John McCain’s […]

Friedman’s Chapter 18

For ages I’ve been meaning to mention Thomas Friedman’s Chapter 18 Project, an online addendum to his new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded (which I reviewed). It’s a not-very-frequently-updated blog, […]

Snippets from the news

• China’s greenhouse-gas emissions could double or more in next 20 years. • Former Spanish prime minister calls climate change a “new religion.” • Japan launches voluntary carbon market. • […]

Federal spending, quick!

Paul Krugman was my favorite New York Times columnist even before he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics this week. His column on Friday lined right up with my […]

Massive U.N. study attempts to do for biodiversity what IPCC did for climate

When Wall Street saw around $1-$1.5 trillion dollars go up in smoke from the financial sector, the world rightfully freaked the hell out. Meanwhile, the world is burning up between […]

Bush admin will rush review of comments on endangered-species plan

The Bush administration will carefully consider the 200,000 non-form-letter comments it received on its recent plan to muck with the Endangered Species Act. And by “carefully consider,” we mean 15 […]