Fire, Fire Everywhere

New West: FIres already are consuming the West, and yet hardly any news reports connect the dots with global warming (e.g. the first six months of 2006 were the hottest every recorded). NewWest.net is an exception, keeping the issue in the forefront of the perennial fire season dispatches. And just in case further verification is needed, here's a general overview from Forbes magazine.

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood

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American Public Media and Gather.com Collaborate on Sustainability

APM and Gather.com, a fast-growing social networking site, have partnered on a sustainability page that's off to a great start. Ultimately the Web could hold a key to the kind of interaction that raises collective consciousness on issues such as global warming, organics and green lifestyles. This is one to follow as the green culture matures.

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood

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Illuminating interview on organic farming

Poughkeepsie Journal: "Certification is nothing more than giving some sort of proof to the consumer I'm really farming the way I say I am. ... If I can come up with a system that helps you to trust that I'm farming organically, why do I need the government to define that trust?"

Organic guru Ron Khosla gives a fascinating overview of how the system works, and does not work. One festering issue we've talked about before has to do with government regulation, which is degenerating into a system of exceptions that dilutes the entire philosophical underpinnings of organic production. Khosla's lucid proposal (favored by many local farmers I've talked to at farmer's markets in Seattle): Have the farmers regulate each other. They all have much to gain in a system of peer certification.

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood

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Will Wal-Mart Become Green, Always?

Salon: Wal-Mart is making all the right noises, but can a global megacorporation that has traditionally valued profits above all else really change its colors?

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