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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:59:33 -0700

Oil Sands “Sustainable?”: Shell Hires Irwin Mainway for PR, Ad Rejected
There was a character on Saturday Night Live back in the 1970s played brilliantly by Dan Aykroyd named Irwin Mainway. Mainway...
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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:38:08 -0700

David Byrne Tries to Save Web Radio
I’ve always liked David Byrne, former leader of the Talking Heads. Besides being an endlessly creative musician and...
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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:29:47 -0700

Breaking Irony: We’ll Be Dead- But Our Lawns Will Look Great
I confess: I water my lawn. But I also let it get a little brown and my water bill is below the national average....
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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:14:37 -0700

Peak Oil: Dwindling Supply or Just Politics, We All Must Change
The question over whether the growing oil crisis is real or manufactured or the product of geopolitical partitioning is moot to...
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Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:49:57 -0700

Federal Support for Renewables Stuck in the Mud
Our U.S. ag secretary says the Bush Regime is spending $600 million on renewable energy research and implementation. But note...
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Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:36:17 -0700

America’s Deathmographics: TV News Still Most Popular Among the Living Dead
Yes, television is still America’s most trusted news source. But this latest study merely confirms what earlier research...
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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:26:14 -0700

Olympics Video Streaming, Web Radio Demise Indicate Coming Bandwidth Wars
Pandora and other Internet radio operations are on the verge of collapse. NBC and other corporate media cause delays, slow...
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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:47:34 -0700

You Messed It Up, You Clean It Up: Concept of Environmental Responsibility Eludes Corporate Utah
The controversy over how- or even whether- to save Great Salt Lake from mercury and other toxic substance pollution, is heating...
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Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:58:10 -0700

Parking Lots as Solar Collectors: True Brilliance
In 1988, I was a reporter/producer covering Jesse Jackson’s bus motorcade from Chicago to the Democratic Convention in...
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Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:39:03 -0700

Breaking Irony: Provo Herald Energy Editorial: Pollution, Injustice, Enslavement Are The American Way
I get a charge out of so-called “conservative” media’s ravings that are about as conservative as...
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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:46:55 -0700

Bicycles vs. Cars: America Struggles with Change Again
Motorists do NOT like to share the road with anyone. If we had our way, we’d drive right down the middle of the road as...
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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:12:30 -0700

LDS Church “On Threshold” of Green? What Are You Waiting For?
Mark Thomas, a Mormon business consultant, sitting on a recent panel on the environment (that’s a headline in itself!)...
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Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:12:59 -0700

Things You Miss While Watching the Olympics: Hummingbirds
As an official boycotter of the Beijing Olympics, I must find things to do to fill the hours and hours I would waste watching...
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Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:09:38 -0700

Mercury in Great Salt Lake: No Mystery Where It Comes From- Or How It Gets Into You
Utah’s making international environmental news over alarmingly high levels of toxic mercury in Great Salt...
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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:35:52 -0700

Colorado Lands Huge BP Solar Project: Utah Ignores Another Great Opportunity
It’s not only amazing that Big Oil- BP Solar- is financing a huge solar project to help power an entire university. They...
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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:06:07 -0700

More Drilling to Lower Gas Prices? Big Oil, Bush Regime Lie About It All
The debate is heating over whether more of America’s public lands and off-shore should be opened up for drilling....
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Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:58:51 -0700

Breaking Irony: McCain Demands Energy Vote; Where Were You When America Needed You, John?
John McCain demanding Congress vote now on energy legislation is one of the finest ironies of this or any campaign....
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Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:41:54 -0700

Beating Record Heat with NO AIR CONDITIONER and SAVING MONEY TOO? Tell Me How, Ken!
It didn’t start out as a challenge to myself. Ultimately, that’s how it evolved but not why it succeeded. I’m...
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Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:53:16 -0700

Mission Accomplished: Iraq War’s Environmental Ravages, Drought, Starvation
War causes more environmental destruction than any one thing. It’s not a story you hear about much in the corporate media...
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Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:26:33 -0700

PC Energy Saving Software: Conservation Begins in Your Lap
The announcement of an effort to economize and lessen the use of power by home and laptop computers is an excellent symbol of...
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Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:27:41 -0700

Brett Favre: Hero to Whore
A friend of mine in the sports journalism biz has covered Brett Favre virtually both their entire careers. He used to like...
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Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:01:49 -0700

Why Do Americans Support Doping Athletes? Because We’re On Drugs Ourselves
An evocative feature from AP sports writer Rachel Cohen asks why we defend and tacitly encourage peformance-improving drug use...
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Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:42:25 -0700

It’s Too Small a World After All- For Chinese Censors, Security
I’m surprised by the journalists upset at the International Olympic Committee for the Chinese government’s...
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Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:53:11 -0700

Salt Lake’s Downtown Farmers Market: Big Crowds, Huge Selection, Great Fun
Farmers markets are mushrooming (had to find some metaphor- it’s an old journalism habit like a facial twitch) all over...
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Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:18:17 -0700

Navigating Utah’s Waterways the Schreiner Way
When I lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1997-99, my house was near a small lake which no one ever used. So I bought a boat....
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