May 2008
Ugh. It seems we have been ingesting BPA all along.
How much tuna can you eat a week safely.
“The study looked at factors such as the energy needed to produce a renewable fuel source compared with how much energy is produced, the impact on soil fertility and effects on food supply when fuels based on crops such as corn and soybeans are mixed with fossil fuels. Based on those factors, the authors determined that corn-based ethanol is the worst alternative overall.”
Policy Recommendations
- Calculate a biofuel’s ecological footprint
- Promote only biofuels that can be produced sustainably
- Select highly efficient species for biofuels
- Work to minimize land needed for biofuels
- Encourage reclamation of degraded areas
- Prohibit clearing areas for more cultivation
- Promote use of energy crops that require less fertilizer, pesticide and energy
- Promote native and perennial species
- Prohibit use of invasive species
- Promote crop rotation on cultivated lands
- Encourage soil conservation
- Promote only biofuels that are at least net carbon neutral
“Exposure in the womb to common chemicals used to make everything from plastic bottles to pizza box liners may program a person to become obese later in life”
“Contemporary art’s quarter-century-long vogue for taking things apart, for subverting the distinction between “high and low,” for irony, for pastiche, for the abjuration of concepts of totality, unity and determinate meaning, for fragmentation—well, that vogue never really has sat well with design. We’ve tried, but it just doesn’t. “Erasing the distinction between art and design,” which we’ve heard so much about in recent years, is impossible for this reason: Design, by its definition, is generative. It is the process of making things. Taking things apart is the opposite of design. Irony—creating distance—is the opposite of real communication, which is the underlying aim of graphic design.”
