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The film will explore the conflicts between the fishing industry and the environment

Ahoy mateys, and a happy new year to ye. I celebrated me holidays with some good booty — givin’ and receivin’ — and some pirate-style parrrtying. Here’s hopin’ ye did […]

Lesson: be careful to whom you lend your name

Forbes is engaging in some hard-hitting investigating of various companies' finances.

Their latest article considers the alleged troubled finances of Earth Biofuels, a small Dallas-based outfit trying to build a national chain of filling stations dispensing biodiesel. The company took on country-western singer Willie Nelson as a director when it licensed his name for "BioWillie®", the brand under which the biodiesel, made mainly from U.S. soybeans, is marketed.

Polar bears may be listed as threatened in U.S., and more

Read the news items highlighted in this week’s podcast: Threat Level: White Since U Been Gone Naughty and Nice Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now Read the articles mentioned at the […]

What are you optimistic about?

Every year at the Edge Foundation World Question Center they ask a single question of a huge collection of diverse thinkers. The results are always fascinating — intellectual crack, as […]

Things will fall apart

Shorter James Kunstler: Sure, things didn’t fall completely apart in 2006, but this year … this year it’s gonna happen!

The supposed ‘middle way’ is debunked

Andy Revkin produced a truly bizarre piece over the weekend: "Middle Stance Emerging in Debate Over Climate." Frankly, I’m surprised it got past the NYT’s news editors. It strikes me […]

Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now

Louisiana sliding into the Gulf of Mexico, new report says Talk about kicking a state while it’s down. A new report says swampy southeastern Louisiana isn’t just sinking — it’s […]

That Was the Year That Was

Grist looks at the top news stories of 2006, wings it for 2007 Welcome to your new year! Before we rush into this great unknown annus, let’s pause to reflect […]

Ignore them

As most of you have probably noticed, Gristmill has attracted a few trolls. I guess we can attribute that to some combination of increased popularity and the recent Coby-driven focus […]

A cartoon for our times … from 1939

The only cartoon ever nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, circa 1939: [vodpod id=Video.3402&w=425&h=350&fv=] Happy 2007.