Last night, Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics and now the ostensibly freakier Super Freakonomics, appeared on The Daily Show. Jon Stewart expressed his enthusiasm for Levitt’s position that we should be combating global warming in many ways, not only by reducing emissions but also by implementing strategies to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.[...]

A group called The Yes Men recently held a press conference wherein members posed as representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The purpose of the press conference was ostensibly to announce that the Chamber was reversing its opposition to stricter climate change legislation.[...]

Despite this really visible opposition to change, or perhaps because of it, I am starting to feel the slightest bit…hmm, what’s the word…un-pessimistic.[...]

We can, and that includes our children.  Some people are hissing about the video the www.storyofstuff.com, which was designed to be used in schools—claiming that it is “un-American” and should be censored… because censorship is so American.
We as parents do a lot in the name of protecting our children—it’s one of our responsibilities, along with [...]

Who’s to blame for this lousy economy? We can blame the housing market bubble which popped, or the banking & mortgage industries, or maybe the rising health care costs and skyrocketing insurance premiums which affect auto-makers, doctors’ private sectors, small & medium-size businesses. There’s also the ever-rising prices of food and utilities to blame. All the above is causing escalating [...]