Top Picks ~ Week of July 24, 2006

Whole Foods Pledges Greater Support of Small Farms
Reuters – (June 30, 2006)

Fungi Perfecti
A family-owned company “specializing in gourmet and medicinal mushrooms for the health of the planet and its people.”

Blood in Beirut: $75.05 A Barrel
By Greg Palast (July 26, 2006)
Excerpt: This Thursday, Exxon is expected to report the highest second-quarter earnings of any corporation since the days of the Pharoah, $9.9 billion in pure profit collected in just three months — courtesy of an oil shortage caused by pipelines on fire in Iraq, warlord attacks in Nigeria, the lingering effects of the sabotage of Venezuela’s oil system by a 2002 strike… the list could go on.

Exxon’s brobdingnagian profits simply reflect the cold axiom that oil companies and oil states don’t make their loot by finding oil but by finding trouble. Finding oil increases supply. Increased supply means decreased price. Whereas finding trouble — wars, coup d’etats, hurricanes, whatever can disrupt supply — raises the price of oil.

Bioremediating New Orleans 4, Doing It!
By Starhawk (Feb 18, 2006)

Think Small, Think Local
By Michael Kane, Staff Writer, From the Wilderness (Jul 25, 2006)
Summary – Subscribers can view whole article

Campaign for Cooperation in Space
Petition to the UN RE The Space Preservation Treaty

US Air Force Linked to Electronic Warfare Attack in Tennessee
By Alfred Webre – EcoNews Service

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