We are doing it, and so can you with our “Contract Farming Program”!
Since taking control of Congress last fall, the Democrats have (justifiably) taken a lot of flak for being spineless, but Rep. John D. Dingell’s (D, Michigan) recent proposal for a national carbon tax is anything but. I’ll give him a (biofuel-powered) truckload of credit for coming up with a bold plan for reducing fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Dingell hasn’t brought his plan to the House yet; he’s in the public-opinion gathering
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Whenever I read an online article about alternative energy and scroll down to the reader comments below, I’m already thinking, "Here come the hemp people." No news or feature story about biofuels or sustainable agriculture can go by without supporters of industrial hemp crawling out of the woodwork to tout their wonder crop. My reaction has generally been to say, "OK, we’ve made our obligatory hemp post. Let’s get on with the real debate 
So every big corporation is green now, huh? That’s apparently what I’m supposed to believe based on every other commercial on prime-time TV: 
I admit it: I feel virtuous when I drop off a few bags of glass bottles and aluminum cans in the county recycling bin (we don’t have curbside recycling where I live) or stuff a few months’ worth of plastic shopping bags into the big cardboard bag collection bin at Walmart (though, yes, I feel less virtuous when I shop at Walmart). But there’s always a nagging doubt: is recycling really as 
Technophiles often like to point out how their gadgets help save the planet by, say, eliminating the need for CDs (think iPod), DVDs (TiVO) and other wasteful products because everything’s going increasingly digital. However, the fact that more and more gadgets are produced and purchased every year, and thrown away more frequently as they quickly become obsolete, negates some of those environmental benefits. In fact, Greenpeace estimates that, globally, we 
Even as many retailers are adopting the marketing slogan, "Buy Green," a backlash movement is emerging calling on people to "buy nothing" or, at least, "buy as little as possible and, preferably, buy nothing new."
The polar bears are drowning. Large numbers of fish are disappearing from the oceans. Bottled-water companies and farms are depleting the aquifers. Chemicals in cosmetics are linked to birth defects.
The thunder here rolled for hours and hours before something long-absent in my neck of the woods finally arrived: rain. That’s when I had an epiphany. It’s come to this, I realized: I am in awe of the rare occurrence of something I used to take for granted. Because my part of the country, like so many other areas, is deep into an 
