Entries from Searchlight Crusade tagged with 'environment'

Finding or Creating a "Green" or Eco-Friendly House

With the current popularity of pursuing a "green" lifestyle and some sustainability (garden plot, edible landscaping, micro-orchard, etc.) in one's yard area, I value your input about what to look for in an older subdivision with larger lots that aren't...

The History of Suburban Housing

For at least the last thirty years, I've been hearing "affordable housing" advocates yammer about the high cost of housing, and how working families can no longer afford "decent" housing, which they apparently consider to be the three or...

Finding or Creating a "Green" or Eco-Friendly House

With the current popularity of pursuing a "green" lifestyle and some sustainability (garden plot, edible landscaping, micro-orchard, etc.) in one's yard area, I value your input about what to look for in an older subdivision with larger lots that aren't...

The History of Suburban Housing

For at least the last thirty years, I've been hearing "affordable housing" advocates yammer about the high cost of housing, and how working families can no longer afford "decent" housing, which they apparently consider to be the three or...

Links and Minifeatures 07 13 (Friday the 13th!)

Oops! Via Josh Poulson, I got pointed to an article at Intellectual Conservative. We must consider that the threats to the Spotted Owl ten years ago are not necessarily the same as the threats now. Nonetheless, at first glance it...

Links and Minifeatures 07 18 Tuesday

Isn't this rich? Carter blames 1980 loss on Walter Cronkite "Updated opinion polls right before the election took place showed that we had slipped," Carter told Shirley. "And it was primarily because Walter Cronkite and everybody else was talking about...

Links and Minifeatures 06 11 Sunday

Washington Post has an article giving the story (as told by the Post) of the Marine squad leader and others at Haditha. I do not know whether the Iraqi account of an atrocity or this account is closer to being...

Smoker's Vs. Non-Smoker's Rights

Digger's Realm trackbacked to my article on California declaring secondhand smoke a pollutant, angry at the "violation" or "smoker's rights" and saying "Searchlight Crusade who thinks smokers should be taken out and shot." No Digger, I don't want you shot,...

Calif. Says Secondhand Smoke a Pollutant

Hooray! Unlike many confused libertarians, I welcome this: Calif. Says Secondhand Smoke a Pollutant. You see, I've spent my life having my nose (and throat, sinuses, and lungs) rubbed in the fact that I'm dealing with the hazardous chemicals smokers...

Links and Minifeatures 11 23 Wednesday

Carnival of the Vanities is up at Don Surber's. Recommended posts: Ruminating Dude, and ROFASix, who writes an excellent article detailing how DDT got banned despite the "science" or doing so being complete junk. In point of fact, DDT may...

Petroleum and Energy

Judging by all the furor about the cost of gas recently, nobody remembers the Arab Oil Embargo in 1973 and 1974. The cars back then were just as big, and they got worse gas mileage than modern SUV's. And the...

Links and Minifeatures 08 10 (Wednesday)

Teens urged to be future thinkers. Contest with kind of cool prize. ********** Iraq/War on Terror Jawa Report has some good ideas and good thinking on how we can really win the war on Terror. Wars are won when 1)...

Today's Links and Minifeatures 2005 07 29 Friday

Sorry about no Daily Links yesterday. I ended up helping my brother get ready to move to Washington state. ********** There is an actual RPG Carnival starting up! They are accepting submissions now, the first one will appear Monday. Go...