Xerox – (XRX-$14.04) in conjunction with its subsidiary, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), is working on a way to make paper truly recyclable.

It was with great sorrow that I read the March MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) article about moose becoming extinct in Minnesota.

Photo:~Hypatia~, Creative Commons, Flickr Last Tuesday, for the umpteenth time – though this time publicly – the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. met to try to prevail over more sensible heads (including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) who want to amend, and possibly abrogate, NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Photo:textilesdiva, Creative Commons, Flickr A recent study by the Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank, shows that the Upper Midwest would reap enormous economic benefits from a proposed cleanup of the Great Lakes.

Truly good alternative energy ideas come along about once a decade.

I hate being a conspiracy theorist, but the government drives me to it, and lately government seems (hand-in-glove with corporations) to be driving a policy to get rid of unwanted burdens to our capitalist society.

In March 2008, The New York Times reported an inexplicable and disturbing variation between actual prices and commodity pricing in some commonly traded crops like corn, soybeans and wheat.

On April 9, 450 of the 500 employees at the Point Beach nuclear power plant – owned by FPL Energy of Florida and located in Two Rivers, Michigan – were evacuated because a store clerk misinterpreted a sound bite.

Some call it the Father of Waters. Others have called it The Big Muddy.

Presidential candidate John McCain (R-AZ) is a Vietnam veteran who spent 5 1/2 years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam after refusing an out-of-sequence repatriation offer, which was extended because his father was Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC) of all Vietnamese forces.

As an 8-year-old veteran of Capitol Hill and the Capitol itself, the wife of Bill Clinton (42nd president of the United States) is a power in her own right.

SRI stands for socially responsible investing. Whether you invest money in stocks or time and energy, your investment should make sense from both a financial and a sustainability standpoint.

ENN, the Environmental News Network, recently announced that Dell (DELL – $19.53), the world’s largest mail-order computer vendor and maker of the infinitely adaptable Dell PC and laptop computers, was running its 2.1-million square foot Round Rock facility entirely on renewable energy.

TreeHugger recently conducted a study that adds credibility to the assertion that EMFs (electromagnetic fields) affect living things.

HB1270, as passed by the Colorado Senate and sent to the House, will prevent homeowner’s associations from adopting or enforcing restrictive covenants that prevent the use of solar and wind generation, shade structures, shutters, attic fans, evaporative coolers, energy-efficient outdoor lighting and retractable clotheslines.

Rene Descartes, 17th century French philosopher and coiner of the phrase, "I think, therefore I am (cogito ergo sum)", hedged his bets when it came to animal cognition.

On March 1, ABC News reported that the USS New York – built from 7.5 tons of 9/11 steel – was christened at the Northrop Grumman shipyard just outside New Orleans after having survived Hurricane Katrina.

On March 3, United Technologies Corporation (UTX – $68.55) offered to take over Diebold Corporation (DBD – $37.27), makers of the infamously tamperable voting machines.

Photo:Stephen_Rees, Creative Commons, Flickr In Minnesota, ice is not only nice, but indispensable.

Daylight Savings Time (DST) began during World War I. Its objective, then and now, was to save energy.