Comments healrth has made

  • second that libation

    Mihan's idea of a compilation of foody spots where the proprietors are Doing It in ways that we all want to support is a great one!  I'm sure Tom has plenty of spare time to do it for us......

    (hmm, maybe not....how's about putting out a call to readers to see if someone would feel like taking it on as a Community Service project??)On New food column opens with a look at a superlative coffeehouse posted 3 years, 1 month ago 7 Responses

  • half measures

    Try pushing him a bit on the question of whether we really do need to take the sorts of more extreme steps, aiming to 70% reductions in greenhouse gasses over the course of a generation or two, that some are pushing for.  I'm afraid my boggled brain can't retrieve the name of the fellow who's been crusading for a more aggressive stance, just read a piece on him last week.  Al reviewed his book and took the stance that it was politically unrealstic, though his concrete proposals are about redirecting funding and priorities (eg taxing currency exchanges, shifting oil subsidies to renewables, etc), not frontal attacks on our "way of life" or similar politically impossible themes.  

    Bottom line, isn't it too late for "first steps" (even big ones) and don't we need to get creative and aggressive with an ecologicially sound long term goal in mind, reframing some fundamental shifts in ways that are palatable to the mass public?On Me and Al Gore posted 3 years, 7 months ago 25 Responses