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Beer, Beans, Banks and Brands

Mar 21, 2010 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Departments | Environment | Spring 2010

Beer diets, beans diets, Icelandic banks (on a crash diet?), pets, paws and small farm producers. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

Lazy, seedy, devious and stay-at-home

Nov 15, 2009 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Departments | Environment | Winter 2009

Border Thaw “Climate change has led to the introduction of one of the world’s first ‘mobile borders,’ between Switzerland and Italy. The border was originally defined according to where the…

Confection, Congestion and Electrification

Sep 15, 2009 | Douglas G. Pearce | Autumn 2009 | Back Issues | Departments | Environment

How One Man’s Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science.

Mitigation, Termination and Osculation

Jun 18, 2009 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Departments | Environment | Summer 2009

Dandelions, porcupettes and wake-up calls. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

Morphine, acid, grass and vanilla bean lows

Mar 21, 2009 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Departments | Environment | Spring 2009

Poppy Culture Medical morphine production is “a much more reasonable and practicable alternative to the attempted destruction of the poppy fields – an effort that wouldn’t succeed for long, in…

Innovative orangutans, Otzi the Iceman and snotty children

Nov 18, 2008 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Departments | Environment | Winter 2008

If you want to avoid catching a cold, keep your nose warm, wash your hands a lot and stay away from children.

Oil Futures, Goo Goo Clusters and Judgment Day

Sep 15, 2008 | Douglas G. Pearce | Autumn 2008 | Back Issues | Departments | Environment

Some 150 new candy bars hit the shelves every year, but 65 per cent of U.S. brands have been around for more than six decades.

Capitalists, Millionaires and Worldly Pleasures

Jun 20, 2008 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Departments | Environment | Summer 2008

A British study suggests that for every minute you walk, you live about three minutes longer. You’re not using time, you’re generating time.

Bursting bubbles, boosterisms and commoner sense

Mar 23, 2008 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Departments | Environment | Spring 2008

Boost “Deficit spending is already beyond belief, and the country is hugely indebted, as are households. The housing bubble has already burst. The Federal Reserve has made clear it will…

Tarantula hawks, beneficial beavers and the mollusk option

Nov 15, 2007 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Departments | Environment | Winter 2007

Human Burnout “The trends in Vital Signs 2007-2008 make it overwhelmingly clear that while Earth itself is almost certainly not dying, many of the planet’s ecological systems are. And the…

Hungry maggots, voracious cats & greedy planets

Mar 22, 2007 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Departments | Environment | Spring 2007

Biodiesel requires little or no modification to vehicle engines or fuelling infrastructure, and its greater lubricity may reduce maintenance costs.