The Seattle Times reports today that a California resident who has a roof-top solar panel system sued his neighbor who has redwood trees because the trees shade his solar panels. The $1,000-a-day fine that can be imposed on offending tree owners seems to put the wrong-doers in a league with Enron executives. Tree hugging is [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Suing for sunshine, or, tree-hugging gets expensive
Posted in In the News, tagged conflict, going green, solar power on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not just about keeping score
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged politics, popularity on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It seems to me that most of the articles about the presidential primaries are about who is ahead at any given moment. This seems to be a national obsession. In the United States, in general, we seem to be far more concerned with who can hit a baseball the farthest than about who plays well on [...]
Can you tell a cover by its book?
Posted in Books, Blogs & Films, tagged books, Goodreads on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I signed up for Goodreads not long ago. That’s a web site where people post ratings and reviews of books they have read and announce which books they plan to read. I have posted 84 books so far.
I began to wonder if my taste in books resembles that of anyone else. Is there anything to [...]
Bruce Bowditch publishes yoga book
Posted in Books, Blogs & Films, Yoga, tagged Bruce Bowditch, Yoga on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Those of you who practice yoga know that poses complement each other, and the sequence in which they are done matters. Up to now, it has been all but impossible to get guidance in this area. Now I know about Ashtanga yoga and its sequences, but what I’m about to say is something new. Soon [...]
