Category Archives: Not Quite What It Seems

Buy Local, Buy Organic, It’s Important!

By kimba | Published: July 17, 2009
I was inspired to write a post about looking for, and buying, local produce and food by this article I spied yesterday on Alternet.org about the soybeans used for making Silk soy milk. Few Silk products are certified organic anymore, and some are processed with hexane, a neurotoxin. The use of hexane poses risks to [...]
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Clear Cutting In The Tongass

By kimba | Published: July 16, 2009
On Monday, the Obama Administration approved the U.S. Forest Service sale of timber to a Ketchikan mill in a roadless area of the Tongass National Forest. The Tongass National Forest is a 17 million acre temperate rain forest in southeast Alaska. It is home to both native Alaskan people and communities aas well as endangered [...]
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Michael Moore On “Goodbye GM”

By kimba | Published: June 3, 2009
Michael Moore wrote an essay/letter on Monday, the day that General Motors officially declared bankruptcy and the American public became 60% owners of what could possibly be an obsolete car company. Moore lives in Flint, Michigan, the heart of GM country and has a few really good ideas of what to do with it now. I [...]
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