June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
4 posts
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March 2011
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Watchfunnyordie:
Mad Men On Trains
Vincent Kartheiser and Rich Sommer sit down in 1965 to discuss why we need trains.
February 2011
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Protecting Life? New Bill Says Its OK to Let Women... →
They want to “protect life” so much that they have written into the bill a new amendment that would override the requirement that emergency room doctors save every patient, regardless of status or ability to pay. The law would carve out an exception for pregnant women; doctors and hospitals will be allowed to let pregnant women die if interventions to save them will kill the fetus. [+]
November 2010
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October 2010
6 posts
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American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push... →
I’ve never been so angry and amused.
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“The absence of authentic conservatives in our politics serves to ensure that our...”
– Roger D. Hodge (via syntheticpubes)
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A better way to measure effectiveness of drugs →
jayparkinsonmd:
I’ve written in the past about the Number Needed to Treat (NNT). I think it’s one of the most important metrics we have in medicine to determine the efficacy of a modern medical intervention at the population level. I would even suggest that drugs should be approved by the…
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“…a team charged with coming up with ideas for a DVD-burning program that...”
– This is how healthcare needs to be run. It needs to be orders of magnitude simpler. I’ve gotten all kinds of random letters for months about the Vermont state health insurance I’ve signed up for. It’s rather confusing. When I finally talk to someone, I have to wait 3 months to get...
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“90% of all sheep’s wool generated in the U.S. is too coarse to use in the...”
– Fantastic. We could certainly use this in Vermont.
Bellwether Materials Turns Sheep’s Wool Into High-Quality Insulation | Fast Company
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September 2010
5 posts
updates
Various tweaks. Check the who is trav, links and issues pages.
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compostable pens
Packs of compostable pens have been popping up at grocery stores around here lately. At first I thought, “nice, one less disposable plastic item.” Which is true, but here’s the rub:
they’re not radically re-thinking pens. The ideal pen is made from metal or wood and has replaceable ink. The ink is really the only thing that wears out, not the whole pen.
The other...
August 2010
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June 2010
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The World After Abundance →
I think he relies on history a little too much in this article. As if modern technology means absolutely nothing and things still happen on the same time scale. However, I agree with a lot of things said here and seems to validate my idea for a wall surrounding vermont (or would that just be a huge waste of energy?). I don’t know what what’s his name draws issue with with the house...
“After much debate in the State House but without the signature of the governor,...”
– here’s where I went wrong. Turns out I’m not crazy, just not very attentive. I started my campaign in january. I printed out the petition to be on the ballot forms. The form says I have till september. They changed the deadline in april. GREAT.
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oops
At the risk of looking like a total idiot, I’m going to be totally honest. I miss-read the page which explains the deadline to get candidate forms in. For some reason I thought I had all summer.
I decided to be honest about this because I feel like normal politicians who make dumb mistakes would try and cover up their tracks. Pretend it didn’t happen. Start lying. And I don’t...
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create a national bike route - by IdeaScale →
Though I am running for governor, I do like to post a lot of things that are related to the US as a whole and a lot of burlington related stuff. This is a link to my proposal for a national bike route on the Open DOT site. Vote for it pls thx.
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Intervale Food Share Goes Car-less - Project... →
This is how all food ought to be delivered.
May 2010
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over population
To combat the overwhelming and controversial issue of over-population, contraception, abortions, and hysterectomy ought to be provided for everyone for free.
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Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the... →
why we need to do more research on mushrooms. I’m very much in favor of this.
Complexity →
An important article I read recently (via alex Morgan). Is the world too complex for anyone to fix? Food for thought.
Hello folks
I get a lot of questions like, ‘how’s the campaign going?’ I don’t really know what to say. Most of the campaign work I’ve been doing is trying to think of solutions. I guess when I decided to run for governor, I thought I knew what needed to be done to make the world sustainable. If I were to be elected I would just implement all those ideas.
But now I’m...
CampusProgress.org →
BP’s to blame for the oil spill, but YOU are paying for it. Not a joke, this is reality. This is why we’re leaving the union. But until then, write your senators and stuff.
“inothernews: robertreich: Ninety minutes before the end of the trading day...”
– ὁ Σκοτεινός: The (Almost) Crash of Wall Street
this is why we need to leave the union right here
April 2010
7 posts
Thinking
I’ve been thinking a lot about what Derrick jensen says about the necessary importation of resources being unsustainable. I decided I don’t actually disagree with him. He’s defining cities as always growing. Maybe then, is he saying for growth to plateau would require a total shift in perspective which people aren’t capable of. Sure cities can’t grow forever (unless...
New idea
So, assuming the world doesn’t get its shit together and have a total change of heart/mindset and become totally sustainable, maybe we in Vermont can have our own little sustainable nation (unless of course the entire biosphere is shot to shit in which case we’re all fucked anyway). So I think our best bet is to separate from the US and build a giant wall around Vermont to protect against the...
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“One’s comfort zone refers to the set of environments and behaviours with...”
– Returning from Derrick Jensen’s talk at UVM. I was going to try to resist swearing on this site in case children were reading, but I think I’m going to give up on that. Derrick’s talk was a bit of a mind fuck. There are so many things to think about, I feel like I need to integrate...
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“Scientists are taking a new look at hallucinogens, which became taboo among...”
– lilahblog: Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again - NYTimes.com
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Vermont Daily Briefing » Let The Joyous News Be... →
good news! Bring on the solar and wind!
“Having been a senior executive at some of America’s largest corporations I...”
– What will the net do to institutions in the next 10 years? - Boing Boing
brilliant, looking forward to reading this article
March 2010
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COLCHESTERAVENUE.ORG →
At the meeting right now. This project has it’s own website, wow.
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“The City of Burlington has hired Resource Systems Group, Inc., as the primary...”
– via front porch forum. I will be attending this and I encourage you to as well. Let’s get some bike lanes already!
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Watchabsolutely brilliant.
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– my slogan for the campaign
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Sustainable Local Agriculture
Vermont needs to achieve a truly sustainable local agriculture. This means growing as much of our food locally as possible, not putting family farms out of business. One way to encourage this will be to require anyone receiving food stamps to only purchase local food. A food backed currency is also something that I would look into instating.
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“Entergy shall fund the training of Yankee’s existing workers to build and...”
– Vermont Daily Briefing