Category: Earth Intelligence

Ideas Can't Be Property. Can Dirt?

Reflections – Zacqary Adam Green:  So, we’re all in agreement that intellectual property is a bad thing that should not exist. What about plain old property? If no one has a right to monopolize the use of an idea, is there a justification to allow monopolies on the use of a little bit of the planet?

First of all, let’s make a distinction between possessions and property. Nobody is arguing that you don’t get to keep the shirt on your back, or your toothbrush, or your laptop. What I’m concerned with is the exclusive right to land, and to the structures built on that piece of land.

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More on climate change. The Alps, as this report spells out, are undergoing fundamental never before seen changes, just as the same thing is happening at Glacier National Park in Kalispell, Montana, and Glacier Bay, Alaska.

Alps Warming At Double The Average Global Rate, New Study Confirms
ARI PHILLIPS – Think Progress

I know a number of you are planning to install solar, and I thought this might help your research.

Best and Worst Yelp Reviews of the Top 5 US Solar Installers
STEPHEN LACEY – GreenTech Solar

The paranoia, fear, and greed that created the national security state, like all things based on such base impulses has ultimately wounded the country and, as we have learned done very little to achieve the goals which were its premise.

Report Finds Police Intelligence Gathering Tactics Threaten National Security
CANDICE BERND – Truthout

Additional Found in Passing:

A study of fracking sites in Colorado finds substances that have been linked to infertility, birth defects and cancer.

Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Found in Water at Fracking Sites