by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment, Featured
Now that Sarah Palin has announced her resignation as Governor of Alaska, you may wonder: What has she been doing? How will she fill her time? In an Op-Ed piece for The Washington Post, Palin kindly provided an answer. She’s committed herself to a single task:...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment
The state of Maine is in a state of gubernatorial uncertainty: a recent poll shows Paul LePage (R) faltering, with Eliot Cutler (I) rising. Candidates are calling, and people are wondering who to vote for. The answer to that question doesn’t begin in the booth,...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment
A few yards from his brewhouse at Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton, Virginia, Taylor Smack, owner and brewmaster, shows me his little field of dreams. One year ago, on a quarter-acre plot, Smack planted 200 hop vines, climbing plants that produce the flowers that are...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Featured
I went to bed last night with Oxford covered in a thin, quiet blanket of snow. I woke up to find the country in chaos. The Telegraph ran a headline saying, “Britain paralyzed by worst snowfall for 20 years.” Meanwhile, the usually reserved Times of London...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment
Glance at the websites of major U.S.-based environmental NGOs and you’ll see a pattern. These bright and often busy websites frequently are stamped with a simple logo: a heron, an egret, a polar bear, or a leaf. The contrast is instructive. These organizations founded...
