So I really want to be green, mercy yes, save the ecology and all, offset my carbon emissions. And I’m really anti-GM. Playing God, y’know, and besides it makes Indian farmers commit suicide and kills rats, right? So, how do I deal with this news?

Money paid by green consumers to offset thei...

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Grain has published a new briefing on "the politics of organic seed certification". It makes all the usual points, most of which boil down to the fact that when there is a fixed cost for something -- anything -- bigger players benefit. There’s plenty of good information in the briefing, and in the...

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Over at The Viscount LaCarte's place, I find a video of a guy I didn’t know -- Tom Russell -- singing a song I didn’t know -- Who’s gonna build your wall? No surprise in the fact that I didn’t know either. The surprises are that it seems to have escaped the vast mass of drawbridge-lifters that the...

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I opened an email one day about a month ago from someone I didn’t know. He said he thought I was in Rome, and could I do him a favour. Instead of telling me the whole story -- why reinvent the wheel? -- he just pointed me to a [discussion] http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=18726¹ on a bu...

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It occurs to me, after the event, that this post’s title is also appropriate to Jessica Hagy’s indexed card I’ve copied. One of the hard parts of catching up after being away is deciding what to delete, unread, what to read now, and what to delay. Indexed is always a read now, not least because...

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