"Factory farms produce cheap meat, until you consider the rivers of sewage, the contaminants and the superbugs."

"For some clotheshorses, the ethical quandry of leather fashions is implicit: It’s a dead animal’s skin. But that’s only part of the story. While leather goods don’t carry quite the stigma that furs do, perhaps they should, especially when one learns the cost of leather production in terms of human health and environmental damage."

Have written an article about it here http://diana.gaia.com/blog/2008/8/running_the_numbers_vs_drowning_by_numbers

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I have a story in this week’s Science Times section examining the whiplash created by blow-by-blow media coverage of scientific findings on global warming questions.

In October 2005, Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott started talking about sustainable development. In September 2006, he agreed with Al Gore and stated that a conflict between the environment and the economy is unnecessary. Now, he's even hired green activist Adam Werbach to shepherd the plan. But there are still plenty of skeptics. Is Scott merely greenwashing -- using sustainability to promote his company's interests -- or has Wal-Mart really become a force for environmental good?

Physics & Society, The journal of the 46,000-member American Physical Society, just published “Climate Sensitivity Revisited,” by Viscount Christopher Monckton. Monckton is an avowed man-made warming skeptic, and former science advisor to the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Who would have ever thought that Greenpeace and McDonald's would be collaborating to protect the Amazon rain forest? Or influential environmental groups would be partnering with private equity firms to prevent new coal-fired power plants from coming online in Texas? Or that investors and activists would be sitting across the table from Citi and other leading banks telling them how to tighten their lending criteria for high carbon-emitting projects?

T. Boone Pickens, the legendary wildcatter and corporate raider, has decided that drilling for more oil is not the answer to the nation’s energy problems. President Bush should listen to his fellow Texan and longtime political ally.

Meet The Press: Interview with Al Gore