No kidding?

We've been pointing out this inconvenient truth in these pages for three years now.

Watch Mr. Vidal here.

Quick facts on Bio-Diesel: An acre of soy (the main source of bio-diesel today) can yield 50 gallons of fuel-oil per year. An acre of an algae-lagoon can create up to 20,000 gallons of fuel-oil per year. Certain strains of algae are more than 50% oil by volume, and algae doubles in volume every 24 hours. EVERY water treatment plant and farm could be diverting "waste water/sludge" into an algae -lagoon. The waste feeds the algae, along with sunlight and the right temperature range. Algae then fuels the operation and creates a valuable local energy-source. Along with many companies investing to develop the technology needed for this: http://earth2tech.com/2008/03/27/15-algae-startups-bringing-pond-scum-to-fuel-tanks/ Middlebury College...

WESTMINSTER WEST, Vt. -- An award-winning sheep-cheese farm, community-supported vegetable farm and a garden with semi-wild medicinal herbs are among the attractions that will be featured on Sunday, July 20 in an event celebrating the continuing agricultural heritage of a small Vermont village.

The second Westminster West Farm, Garden and Homestead Tour will enable visitors to tour the local farms, visit with experienced farmers and gardeners, and learn about the various ways they make a living, or add to the quality of life, by producing food locally.

The daylong event also serves as a fundraiser for the Westminster West Public Library, which is organizing the farm and garden tour.

...

This morning as I began gathering Truth To Power’s Daily News Stories, I opened Energy Bulletin’s site and found a stunning article by Kathy McMahon “26 Things You Can Do Right Now To Manage Your Anxiety.” Although she doesn’t directly talk about humor, numbers 20 and 21 in the article which refer to protecting one’s mental health and cultivating healthy pleasures certainly include it. References on the internet to George Carlin since his death this week are ubiquitous. All the photos and video clips have taken me back to the early seventies when I first discovered him as “the hippie-dippie mailman with your hippie-dippie mail—Man.” More recently he gave us priceless routines such as “The American Dream” and “7 Words You Can’t Say On...

Good to see Mr. Odum doing at GMD today what we know he can do best - providing thoughtful and pointed commentary on Vermont politics, without resorting to distortions or ad hominem attacks.

Worth a close read.

We'll be publishing an in-depth interview with Ms. Symington in our upcoming "Spirit of '77" summer issue, out on the stands by JUly 4th.

And don't miss Progressive Anthony Pollina's interview with VC this past spring.

We'll be speaking with the incumbent -...

We don't usually post press releases here, but this is too exciting to pass up.

Especially in the wake of Suzanne Podhaizer's fabulous interview with IN DEFENSE OF FOOD author Michael Pollan in this week's SEVEN DAYS.

Go Burlington!

--- snip ----

For Immediate Release 6/18/08

Downtown Burlington Farmers’ Market Goes Year Round:
Winter Market in the Works for 2008-2009

Burlington - The community, excitement, and great local foods and crafts of
the summer Saturday farmers’ market in City Hall Park will move indoors for
the first time this winter. The Burlington Farmers’...

A longtime educator in Oregon suggested that I mail my book When Childhood Collides with NCLB to every member of the House and Senate education committees--and offered $100 to start a fund to pay the costs of doing this.

I've listed committee members below.

I agreed to send out the books and asked that people send me letters by e-mail to members of the committee who live in their states. I will send the book in their name, along with the cover letter.

So if you would liked to participate, write a short...

A sobering article from one of the U.S. Empire's newspapers of record.

Read to the end - burning one's furniture, a sign of "intense economic anxiety," indeed.

I reprinted the letter here, with the link at the top.

Senator Sanders has spent his political career listening and chronicling the desperation of poor Vermonters - one wonders, with the U.S. Empire approaching a crossroads, what anyone in DC can possibly do to "fix" the brokenness here.

Especially, as we have argued here for years, the folks running DC are raking in tremendous amounts of money by "gaming" a broken system via...

While the GMD blogo-crowd celebrates the Supreme Court's latest decision to "save" habeas corpus (could we at least spell it correctly, folks?) Michel Chossudovsky's latest article on biometrics, published by the Centre for Research on Globalization, is well worth a close look.

While the few "good guys" left in Congress, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy among them, have fought these past several years to "restore" habeas corpus, a basic constitutional right that traces its origins to 1215 and that famous field at Runnymeade, the Bush...