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  July 23, 2005


maxinenoelmoonmaidenRegular readers know that Saturday is Links day here at How to Save the World, and this past week has been a busy one. I've tried to organize them a bit to make your bookmarking easier:

Oil Industry Misdeeds:
  • Exxpose Exxon -- time to extend the boycott of the world's most destructive and irresponsible corporation.
  • Meanwhile the Deconsumption Blog (thanks to Dale Asberry for pointing me to this) digs into Exxon's competitors and the current frenzy of oil company greenwashing.
  • A new organization, Arctic Refuge Action, is working full tilt this summer to block drilling in the ANWR, and they need your support.
Tech Finds:
  • Google has now added Google Video (search of free online news & documentary video clips -- you have to download their player to use it) and Google Print (search full text of published works -- and then browse them online and buy them with one-click from various sources or find it in a nearby library-- Amazon look out!)
  • M2M (machine to machine) transactions on the Internet will soon dwarf human transactions according to this article in Electronic Design
  • An article in the NYT explains the options for backing up essential files. They've sold me -- I'm buying an extra, external hard drive today.
  • And new technology may make it easier to find your lost pet (or save it from injury).
  • Finally, an interesting explanation of why IT leaders hate Skype.
Politics:
Society:
  • Does College Matter? asks the blog Creating Passionate Users, and comes up with some interesting answers
  • The Open Co-op has a well-articulated vision for replacing our closed society with an open one and our market economy with an environmentally responsible gift economy. The guy behind it is Gary Alexander of eGaia fame. Dare to believe. (Thanks to Rick Dworsky for the link). I'll have more to say about this, and about the Gaia Trust, in a few days.
  • Choosing to Eat Local or Eat Vegan -- an article in the Tyee suggests you can't always do both, so you have to make an uncomfortable choice -- some areas just can't (or won't) grow vegetable-based proteins locally (Thanks for Doug Alder for the link).
  • And in the same vein, in the NYT, Salon Blogger Julie Powell explains that much of our current political correctness about food smacks of economic elitism.
Please excuse any typos; I'm still recovering from the amazing Salon Bloggers virtual party last night.

Drawing of moon maiden (there were a lot of them at the party) by Maxine Noel.

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