Comments on: From Pollan to the President http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: timbo http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106694 timbo Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:21:41 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106694 <p>Thank you for having this discussion on CBA for food…and the problem of food supply to billions of people generally brings in case the current distribution system falls apart.</p> <p>I am curious if anyone has more info on the carbon footprint benefits of nuclear generated electricty as a replacement for petro generated energy. Up until six months ago I was an anti-nuclear power knee-jerker. In the past few months though, with the dawning realization that our economy has become so wasteful of power, we’re going to have to switch to nuclear to get away from carbon…or so the theory goes, eh? Anyone have a link to the carbon foot-print of building and maintaining a nuclear infrastructure? Would there actually be a benefit directly from going to nuclear with regard to the atmosphere…or is that just conjecture and/or pablum? Because I see both candidates talking about re-introducing nuclear energy dependency as a national policy…but is there any actual academic or CBA on this that rings true?</p> <p>At least it would seem Obama may actually be thinking about these things in some depth…but is he? And where is a balanced analysis of the issue for nuclear…as studies seem to have been for food distribution and its impact on the environment, one would think there are similar studies for nuclear…</p> Thank you for having this discussion on CBA for food…and the problem of food supply to billions of people generally brings in case the current distribution system falls apart.

I am curious if anyone has more info on the carbon footprint benefits of nuclear generated electricty as a replacement for petro generated energy. Up until six months ago I was an anti-nuclear power knee-jerker. In the past few months though, with the dawning realization that our economy has become so wasteful of power, we’re going to have to switch to nuclear to get away from carbon…or so the theory goes, eh? Anyone have a link to the carbon foot-print of building and maintaining a nuclear infrastructure? Would there actually be a benefit directly from going to nuclear with regard to the atmosphere…or is that just conjecture and/or pablum? Because I see both candidates talking about re-introducing nuclear energy dependency as a national policy…but is there any actual academic or CBA on this that rings true?

At least it would seem Obama may actually be thinking about these things in some depth…but is he? And where is a balanced analysis of the issue for nuclear…as studies seem to have been for food distribution and its impact on the environment, one would think there are similar studies for nuclear…

]]> By: alank http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106620 alank Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:55:50 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106620 <p>The drift for the past eight years, at least, has been the escalation of corporative enterprises, producing the most in the least amount of time without bearing any of the costs of the huge externalities generated thereby. It’s a familiar capitalist model.</p> <p>A tree monoculture in Michigan emerged after overcutting most of the forests in the associated ecoregion, dominated by ash species and presenting an opportunity for a non-native borer species to devastate the populations. Monoculture is destructive in so many ways. A sane policy would discourage this tendency.</p> The drift for the past eight years, at least, has been the escalation of corporative enterprises, producing the most in the least amount of time without bearing any of the costs of the huge externalities generated thereby. It’s a familiar capitalist model.

A tree monoculture in Michigan emerged after overcutting most of the forests in the associated ecoregion, dominated by ash species and presenting an opportunity for a non-native borer species to devastate the populations. Monoculture is destructive in so many ways. A sane policy would discourage this tendency.

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106531 Leen Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:54:40 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106531 <p>To think Frances Moore Lappe was on top of this issue close to 40 years ago “Diet For A Small Planet”. Since then we have witnessed small organic local farms, produce and farmers markets explode and still growing.</p> <p> EW Have almost made myself sick picking and eating local cherries and blueberries in Michigan during the summer.</p> To think Frances Moore Lappe was on top of this issue close to 40 years ago “Diet For A Small Planet”. Since then we have witnessed small organic local farms, produce and farmers markets explode and still growing.

EW Have almost made myself sick picking and eating local cherries and blueberries in Michigan during the summer.

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106530 Leen Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:27:14 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106530 <p>Government responses to financial markets</p> Government responses to financial markets

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106529 Leen Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:26:00 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106529 <p><a href="http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_rm.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_rm.aspx</a><br /> C-SPAN offers gavel to gavel coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives. C-SPAN also offers a variety of public affairs programming including congressional hearings, press briefings from the White House, State Department and Pentagon, campaign and election coverage, and international programming. </p> <p>ON NOW</p> http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_rm.aspx
C-SPAN offers gavel to gavel coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives. C-SPAN also offers a variety of public affairs programming including congressional hearings, press briefings from the White House, State Department and Pentagon, campaign and election coverage, and international programming.

ON NOW

]]> By: skdadl http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106527 skdadl Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:14:11 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106527 <p>Yay. Very good news.</p> Yay. Very good news.

]]> By: WilliamOckham http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106525 WilliamOckham Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:15:14 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106525 <p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2008-10-13-nobelprize-economics_N.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....mics_N.htm</a></p> http://www.usatoday.com/money/…..mics_N.htm

]]> By: WilliamOckham http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106524 WilliamOckham Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:14:00 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106524 <p>Breaking News! Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize in Economics</p> Breaking News! Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize in Economics

]]> By: Boston1775 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106522 Boston1775 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:56:40 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106522 <p>Scroll down that page on soy.</p> Scroll down that page on soy.

]]> By: Boston1775 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106521 Boston1775 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:55:12 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/12/from-pollan-to-the-president/#comment-106521 <p>Michael Pollan has done a great job of highlighting corn as ubiquitous.<br /> But soy is also becoming a freaking plague. Try buying food without soy products.</p> <p><a href="http://westonaprice.org/soy/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://westonaprice.org/soy/index.html</a></p> Michael Pollan has done a great job of highlighting corn as ubiquitous.
But soy is also becoming a freaking plague. Try buying food without soy products.

http://westonaprice.org/soy/index.html

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