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His book is free. Author Lawrence Lessig is not likely to be looking for Disney-style copyright kickbacks on this one.

Lessig, an influential scholar and Stanford University law professor, has joined with the ranks of authors who are dabbling in the fine art of licensing. Among them are Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Dan Brown and Cory Doctorow.








AND the home of the RSS standard is ... here.





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want to exploit the environment ? -- GO HERE --

Flight of the Exxon Valdez

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When the US team started recording atmospheric carbon dioxide in the late 1950s, levels were around 315 ppm and have risen ever since.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that, if unchecked, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere will have risen to between 650 and 970 ppm by 2100. As a result, global temperatures would warm by nearly 6ýC compared with 1990 levels, the IPCC predicts.

NOW... With all of that information ...
Can you spare a minute or two today
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Dear Cyberactivists, To learn why to take action now go to:
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/bin/view.fpl/10048/action_id/201.html


Today, March 24, is the 15th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and we're calling on ExxonMobil to spend their time and energy cleaning up Prince William Sound, instead of spending it squelching freedom of speech. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled over 11 million gallons of oil, and we've seen the remaining impacts of the spill that the people of Prince William Sound are still facing everyday.

ExxonMobil has refused to pay the damage claims ordered by a federal court, and has managed to keep the case in court almost continuously since the disaster.

At the same time, ExxonMobil is suing Greenpeace in an attempt to silence us from exposing Exxon's corrupt environmental policies. The case stems from a peaceful protest that occurred at ExxonMobil's headquarters last May when activists, some dressed in colorful tiger costumes, declared the headquarters a "global warming crime scene." The activists were protesting ExxonMobil's continued denial of the science behind global warming and ExxonMobil's blatant efforts to undermine the Kyoto Protocol and other solutions to the problem.

To tell ExxonMobil to spend their time and money cleaning up the Valdez spill, not fighting Greenpeace, visit: http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/bin/view.fpl/10048/action_id/201.html

Thanks for your help.

Jessica Coven
Climate & Energy Campaign
Greenpeace

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National Public Radio : How Hydrogen as Fuel Fares Overseas

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Dr. Seuss a posthumous adbuster

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For more Dr. Seuss advertising artwork see:
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oil greases government -- Henry Ford parody

"The Land! That is where our roots are. There is the basis of our physical life. The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity. From the land comes everything that supports life, everything we use for the service of physical life. The land has not collasped or shrunk in either extent or productivity. It is there waiting to honor all the labor we are willing to invest in it, and able to tide us across any local dislocation of economic conditions. No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between man and a plot of land."
-Henry Ford

Borrowed from a Livejournal Entry at:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ecovillage/

"The Money! That is where our roots are. There is the basis of our physical life. The farther we get away from the money, the greater our insecurity. From the money comes everything that supports life, everything we use for the service of physical life. The money has not collasped or shrunk in either extent or productivity. It is there waiting to honor all the oil we are willing to invest in it, and able to tide us across any local dislocation of economic conditions. No environmental assurance can be compared to an alliance between oil and a plot for money."
-Henny Fjord

Public Figures to Prove It
US Motor Fuel Tax Outperforms
Corporate Net Income Tax Revenue
http://www.census.gov/govs/www/qtax.html

Canadian Statistics Offering Similar View
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/govt01a.htm

environmental debunker turns sights on Adam Smith

From the wink, wink, nudge, nudge files comes the continuing saga of Bjorn Lomberg whose controversial book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' had the author up on charges of scientific dishonesty by the Danish scientific establishment. Now Lomberg, who beat the rap, is heading an effort to 'save the world'.

Perhaps Mr. Lomberg should be given a standing ovation for attaching a price tag to the environment. The only way, it seems, for current economic models to validate environmental problems and issues is by determining the 'worth' of each article now contained by faith alone. By attacking the economic postulate that labor is the exclusive source of wealth it may now be possible to set a standard for conduct under legislative decree not possible since Adam Smith taught us the road to riches by valuing the contribution of people -- an ideology of revolution consumable by the thinkers of his time who used calculation to build wealth.

Perhaps the work done under the Copenhagen Consensus will redefine economics to include what has only been known and acted upon by intuition since the days of Smith, and not by the calculation upon which so many decisions to exploit are made.

Like a phoenix new methodologies arise from the ashes of what was. With the environment at stake it isn't a good idea to rely on a miracle as the phoenix does. In reality if we get to ashes we are too late.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/7/23496/47566

The Economist magazine has started a project, headed by Bjorn Lomberg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist", to gather together economists and domain experts to answer the question of how the world should rank its problems and how they can be dealt with.

In this weeks Economist there is an article outlining the project. The project also has its own website.