[More insanity from the New York Times: How can you read a book in a way that prevents the most bad weather?]

If you like to read a book in bed at night for an hour or two, the light bulb will use more energy than it takes to charge an e-reader, which has a highly energy-efficient screen. But if you read in daylight, the advantage tips to a book.
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All in all, the most ecologically virtuous way to read a book starts by walking to your local library.  [But how much fossil fuel is used in the production, processing, packaging, transporting, storing, and preparing your food, and how efficiently is that food converted to the calories necessary to power your body?  Shouldn't you get a firm handle on this calculation before taking the ecological risk of walking to the library?]

RealClearPolitics - Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. - Should America Bid Farewell to Exceptional Freedom?

At a time when economic and job expansion should be Washington's highest priority ... and as if the multi-trillion dollar Health Care debacle were not enough, the Progressivist leadership in Congress are adding insult to injury by promoting their energy and climate agenda through their Cap and Trade plan. Put aside the fact that there is growing disagreement among scientists about climate change and its causes. This bill is a big mistake for other reasons.

Conference of the Democratic Left ... International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Global capitalism threatens our world with disaster. If it is left to plunder the natural resources of our planet and pollute the atmosphere, the oceans and the soil, life itself will be under grave threat.

The current global economic crisis represents the exhaustion of a system that is driven by profit and competition. The basic tenet of capitalism is to grow endlessly with no regard to natural limits, to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. It explains why wherever we look we see the crisis and decay of the system: be it financial, energy, food, environment, cultural and social. War, global warming and health pandemics threaten the annihilation of humanity within a couple of generations.