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  rigged, I say!!!

  I seriously LOVE the sweet nutty taste of Nature's Path Organic Millet Rice Oat Bran. It's awesome!!On Eleven organic breakfast cereals get put to the spoon posted 1 year, 1 month ago 11 Responses

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  large high schools

  -And for large suburban/urban districts I think the time of the large high school where 80% of the students drive to school is over. We should return to community based K-12 schools where most of the students walk to school.On More school districts consider four-day week posted 1 year, 3 months ago 4 Responses

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  The more I learn...

  the more I realize there really is no such thing as a "good" car.

  eddy out, redboat

  On Giving up car-lessness for Rob Lowe's plug-in hybrid posted 1 year, 11 months ago 27 Responses

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  time to give up our dogs

  I would have to say that for environmental reasons, it is time for the human race to give up its dogs. I think Edward Abbey in "Desert Solitaire" had more than a few disparaging remarks about dogs.

  I am one of those single dog owners whose dog is home all day. Hey, if single people shouldn't have dogs who should? Most dog behaviorists will tell you that dogs really have no sense of how much time they are at home alone and that their owners (through their own behavior) train them to be ecstatic up on returning home. Some people leave the house for five minutes and their dogs go nuts when they come back in. But, I have to admit that once my 16 year old dog is gone, I will never get another one. A dog does deserve a dog's life.

  I love your comments about the Costa Rican dogs. I have seen these dogs. Like the wonderful people of Costa Rica, their free-roaming dogs are incredibly happy. But as Jeff points out, these "off-leash" dogs have an impact all their own.

  eddy out, redboat

  On Dogs are leftover from a time when we needed them, and now they suffer posted 3 years, 9 months ago 6 Responses

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  new orleans: the end

  Nobody understands the root causes of the New Orleans disaster better than author Mike Tidwell. It is also possible that nobody cares more about this city, its people, and the marshes that use to surround it. His book "Bayou Farewell" is a very readable "must" for anyone interested in this topic. (Readers of "grist" are probably familiar with this book.) It is too bad nobody was listening to him when he wrote it in 2003, and that nobody is listening to him now. New Orleans is being abandoned and forgotten again, perhaps for the last time. Tidwell has an important new article in ORION ONLINE:

  Goodbye, New Orleans
  

  To encourage people to return to New Orleans, as Bush is doing, without funding the only plan that can save the city from the next Big One, is to commit an act of mass homicide. If, after all the human suffering and expense of this national ordeal, the federal government can't be bothered to spend the cost of a tunnel from Logan Airport to downtown Boston, then the game is truly over.

  eddy out, redboat

  On Rebuilding: He-said, she-said posted 3 years, 10 months ago 3 Responses