Mickey Friedman November 18, 2011 You’re not going to want to read this if you’re paying an extra penny or two a kilowatt hour to buy green electricity. Or you think we should sacrifice our mountaintops for wind turbines because…
Who are the 99% and what’s bothering them?
The mainstream media in the United States keeps asking about the 99% – and about the Occupy Movement – wondering who they are and what they want. Well thanks to the smart folks across the water at the UK Guardian…
A Million Faces
By Mickey Friedman November 7, 2011 This Sunday morning, after an hour of serious shoveling, I was able to get my car to Fuel for my Sunday latte. My deepest sympathies to our Great Barrington pear trees which fell overnight,…
Sen. Downing’s ‘Tips Bill’ & Fundraising Raise Questions
By Bill Shein October 31, 2011 There’s at least one thread that runs through the many-flavored Occupy Wall Street protests: Big money from a narrow economic elite, flowing into and around our political system, has distorted participatory democracy to create…
EPA: No Pressure from White House on Rest-of-River Cleanup
By David Scribner October 23, 2011 LENOX – Even as the state Department of Environmental Protection presses ahead with its campaign for a minimal cleanup of (PCBs) from the Housatonic River floodplain, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, which will have…
The Fish, the Ducks, & the Clucks
By Mickey Friedman October 21, 2011 The Fish are the fish that swim the Housatonic River; the Ducks are the ducks that travel the flyway, stopping to live for a bit in the Housatonic. And the Clucks, well read on,…
Bill Shein & Occupy Berkshires
Bill Shein, Red Crow writer, reporter, racounteur and small-scale duck farmer, hits the airwaves to explain to WGBY’s Carrie Saldo what Occupy Berkshires is all about: Occupy Movement comes to Western Massachusetts from WGBY on Vimeo.
Occupy Wall Street! All Day! All Week!
By Matthew Vernon Whalan October 11, 2011 Zuccotti Park smells like B.O. and fresh bagels and the drum circle in the middle launches up into the city and ricochets off of the surrounding buildings. And they sing and they chant,…
Occupy Main Street
By Mickey Friedman October 6, 2011 There’s nothing like leaving home to help you see what’s happening at home. I just spent two glorious weeks in the Costa Rican rain forest trying my very best to do nothing but look…
River Wars
By David Scribner September 27, 2011 LENOX – The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), in a tactic that environmentalists claim is a concession to – if not an outright partnership with — the General Electric Company, has adopted a…