Dreamways

"Moundville, Ala. After residents of the Riverbend Farms subdivision noticed that an oily, fetid substance had begun fouling the Black Warrior River, which runs through their backyards, Mark Storey, a retired petroleum plant workers, hopped into his boat to follow the plume upstream to its source. It turned out to be an old chemical factory that had been converted into Alabama’s first bio-diesel plant, a refinery that intended to turn soybean oil into earth-friendly fuel.“ Earth-friendly fuel polluting waterways? Is this science fiction?  read more »

Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

In the midst of another day's news of political wrangling, the weakening dollar and a belated investigation into Blackwater, I found an interview with Dr. Wangari Maathai who spent the afternoon planting trees with children in Seattle.