The Boondocks blog, No. 72 for the week starting June 9, 2008.
Monday
Local Group Organizes to Advance Slow Food Movement
Rural US. Takes Worst Hit As Gas Tops $4 Average.
Temps Rising, But So Are Sales of Wood Stoves Because of Oil Price Spike
Wednesday
Senate Candidate Don Barber Calls for Drilling Moratorium
NY Tomato Growers Happy About Being Unblack Listed
Soaring Diesel Costs Strain Farmers, Fuels Worries
Malta Fights Horse in Residential Subdivision
Trees Do Their Best Work With Thermostats at 70
Energy looks at high energy prices and our future.
Enviroman looks at man and the environment.
Hayseeds looks at politics and life in our nation.
Individual looks at myself and how I'm changing
Outblog is all about my outdoor experiences.
Transit looks at the changing ways we get around.
Truck gives you stories and trips in my Ford Ranger.
Local Group Organizes to Advance Slow Food Movement. From the Daily Gazette. P'Link
Rural U.S. Takes Worst Hit As Gas Tops $4 Average. Areas with long commutes and low wages are hurt the most by high gas prices. P'Link
Temps Rising, But So Are Sales of Wood Stoves Because of Oil Price Spike. Not surprisingly, now that heating oil is so expensive, many people are making new investments in non-oil technologies, including outdoor wood furnaces, pellet stoves, wood stoves, and coal stoves. P'Link
Part of Nature. Some interesting thoughts on man's relationship to the animal world. P'Link
Senate Candidate Don Barber Calls for Drilling Moratorium. He is concerned that landowners don't know their rights nor is the environment protected with the rush to drill for natural gas. P'Link
NY Tomato Growers Happy About Being Unblack Listed. They note that local tomato's are safer then those imported. Too bad tomato's really don't grow much around here except in heated greenhouses this time of year. P'Link
Soaring Diesel Costs Strain Farmers, Fuels Worries. Long Island Farmers talk about the problems they face with high energy costs. P'Link
Malta Fights Horse in Residential Subdivision. While Samantha Pellerin wants to bring her horse from Charlton to her family's 10 acres in a residential subdivision, some in the town are questioning that decision, who feel a horse is not appropriate in a residential area. P'Link
Trees Do Their Best Work With Thermostats at 70. Apparently by using leaves and their bark, they control their temperature quite accurately. P'Link
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