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Wine and local resilience, part 2

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-16

In the first post of this series, I mentioned my initial encounter with winemaking and wine drinking on an island in Lake Erie, after which I read anything and everything I could find about wine. One of the first books I read was Leon D. Adams' The Wines of America, a book long since out of print.

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Massive Spill Forces Fossil Fuels Rethinking

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-16

by Paul Hanley

Is it possible to energize our civilization without
fear? Fear of oil spills and oil wars, fear of nuclear meltdowns and
nuclear waste, fear of global warming and polluted air and water?

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School District Faces 'Nuclear Option' as Chicago Threatens Teacher Layoffs and 35-Student Classrooms

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-16

by Rosalind Rossi

CHICAGO - Chicago School Board members Tuesday tackled their worst fiscal
crisis since Mayor Daley's 1995 school takeover by granting school
officials the power to raise class sizes to up to 35 students for the
next two years.

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A 'Nightmare Well' Now Everyone's Nightmare

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-16

WASHINGTON - Six days before the
Deepwater Horizon explosion that broke the wellhead still gushing oil
into the Gulf of Mexico, a BP drilling engineer called it a "nightmare
well."

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Richmond Transit Riders Union Holds First Meeting

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Wed, 2010-06-16

<p>Original Published at RVAnews [ http://rvanews.com/news/rrichmond-transit-riders-union-holds-first-meeting/29072 ]</p>

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(en) MUSTA (BLACK) PISPALA - ANARCHIST COUNTER-CULTURE FESTIVAL IN TAMPERE, FINLAND

Syndicated from A-Infos (English) on Wed, 2010-06-16

From http://takku.net Anarchist counter-culture festival Black Pispala will be held this
year during the second weekend of July, 8.-11.7.2010. Events will take place around
Pispala, Tampere (Finland), including Hirvitalo, Kurpitsatalo, Vastavirta-klubi, and Pub
Kujakolli.

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"No till" is a big white lie

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-16

They are determined to believe, along with their university and USDA partners, that they are controlling erosion simply because they quit using moldboard plows and use no-till planters.

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The piggy driver: some empirical data to test the Piggy Principle

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-16

At the end of February, The Oil Drum published an article I wrote called Efficiency and Resilience: After Jevons Paradox, the Piggy Principle.

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Oilwatch Monthly June 2010

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-16

Conventional crude production - Latest figures from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that crude oil production including lease condensates decreased by 107,000 b/d from February to March 2010, resulting in total production of crude oil including lease condensates of 73.41 million b/d.

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Deficit Fear-Mongering Gets Results in US Senate as Unemployed Pay the Price

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-16

by Lori Montgomery

President Obama's urgent plea for more spending on the economy ran into
the political buzz saw of the Senate on Tuesday, where Democratic
leaders began chopping apart an aid package for unemployed workers and
state g

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Dems Face Backlash over NRA Deal

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-16

by Russell Berman

House Democrats are facing a backlash from some liberal and
government reform advocacy groups over an exemption for the National
Rifle Association (NRA) that was added to a campaign finance bill.

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Shaun Chamberlin on Stoneleigh’s peak oil/finance talk at the 2010 Transition Network Conference

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-16

So here I am. I fully intended to be giving the England match my full attention right now, but I've been left distinctly restive by this afternoon's long session by Stoneleigh of The Automatic Earth, and feel the need to put some thoughts down.

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A Tepid Plea for Unspecified Change

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-16

Last night's presidential speech on the Gulf oil spill had been pre-billed by the Washington Post as Barack Obama's "Jimmy Carter moment." But reading any of Carter's speeches (a good one

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The Gulf and Our Oily Campaign-Finance System

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-16

by John R.

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(en) Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement 2010 Conference Report

Syndicated from A-Infos (English) on Wed, 2010-06-16

Over the weekend of June 5-6th, the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement held its 3rd
national conference since it was founded in October 2008. Almost all members were able to
attend, meaning people from 5 different regions across the country were present, at the
fantastic venue of the Wellington People’s Centre.

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