Don’t Drink the CAFE - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

How about if the feds imposed a Corporate Average Newsprint Economy (CANE) standard? What if the feds limited the loquacious Journal auto critic to 600 words instead of 1,100? In the name of ink conservation?

Or forced him to “alternative media” to meet the CANE standard? To save forests, how about limiting the WSJ to two sections — with Neil’s “Gears and Gadgets” page available only online? How about forcing the whole paper online to save millions of gallons of delivery-truck fuel?

Would the Journal’s finest be “a huge proponent of” CANE? Perhaps not.

CultureLab: An insider's guide to eco-warriors

There is a great moment in the film when James is interviewing Pepper inside a tent outside the Vestas wind turbine factory, which had been her home for months. "Does all of this do any good?" James asks her. Pepper screws up her face in vexed consideration, and after a pause she says this: doing something [stupid] is always better than doing nothing.

And this sums up the overriding message of this documentary.