Where the Christmas decorations went

Some weird stuff: 1) Google Earth offers some unwitting insight into William Gibson. Namely, the idea of experiencing/manipulating computer code as if it were an object. It never makes a whole lot of sense to read, in science fiction, of people manipulating code...

Grubs

All energy enters the food system through plants. They are the “primary producers.” Everything else depends on their work either directly or indirectly. Cows eat grass and we eat cows. The biomass, that is the total mass of individuals, tends to decrease...

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Rally Against Monsanto On May 25, people in cities around the world will be gathering in rallies to send a loud and clear message to the Monsanto Corporation: “We do not want your genetically modified foods (GMOs)!” In fact, at this writing, 290 rallies...

News Briefs

As the Trash Piles Up, Will Incinerators Come Back? by Advocate Staff The state’s new Solid Waste Master Plan has a lot of important ideas for reducing waste and promoting recycling, but the part of the plan drawing the most heat deals with burning trash.The...

Westfield Power Plant: How Green?

There is a lot of talk, pro and con, about Pioneer Valley Energy Center, a natural gas-fired power plant proposed for Westfield. For the chosen host city, the project offers some attractive features.The 400 megawatts the plant would generate could power 430,000 homes,...