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  1. Writer Alissa Quart has an amazing radio feature about Iceland and artists. (And yes, Alissa is my wife!) http://bit.ly/6To2sz
  2. RT @revkin: VID ad: Polar bears falling from sky, each equaling 400 kg CO2/person/flight in EU. http://j.mp/fallingPBs Anyone canceling ...
  3. Peter Mendelsund, who designed the cover of Crude World, gets 3 prize nominations from omnivoracious.com http://bit.ly/75FFV8
  4. Everything you never wanted to know about sewage. There's too much of it, NYT reports. http://bit.ly/4NuXAe
  5. Sad news--Tomaz Humar, great Slovenian climber, died in the Himalayas. http://bit.ly/1zY7ZB My profile of him in 2002. http://bit.ly/12j4rN
  6. For flying, carbon offsets soothe the conscience but don't do much for the climate. http://bit.ly/4FMx25
  7. Obiang's millionaire son visits the U.S. despite a ban on visas for corrupt officials. The NYT sheds light. http://bit.ly/1QeAf2
  8. More civil disobedience to stop global warming? Tim DeChristopher offers an example and a rationale. http://bit.ly/25trBA
  9. Peter Galbraith, influential advocate of Kurdish autonomy, had secret financial interest in Kurdish autonomy. Oh...http://bit.ly/2MCGJu
  10. In Venezuela, lots of oil but no energy. Blackouts across the country. Hello paradox of plenty. http://bit.ly/XAtl2
  11. "Photographs teach us that anything with a frame, whether an image or text, can be used to mislead and to distort." http://bit.ly/3DMTAh
  12. Rebecca Skloot's smart strategy for creating the book tour her publisher couldn't afford to create. http://bit.ly/3l99c4
  13. Zizek, remarkable as usual, on the unfulfilled utopian ideal that ended the Cold War - http://bit.ly/2mbYAv
  14. The oilman and the gumseller...good NPR story on resource curse in Angola. http://bit.ly/1o3nYc
  15. Obama, like Bush, makes nice with Obiang. Unfortunate. http://bit.ly/1nrwL3
  16. Kristof on Afghanistan: Build schools, not bases. http://bit.ly/79aEb
  17. Chumpchanger--my new favorite economics blog, written by a friend, Mark Gimein. Brilliant, really. http://bit.ly/mamgw
  18. Mad Max ahead? Guardian story on Global Witness report that predicts conflict over scarcer crude. http://bit.ly/ylEg6
  19. RT @revkin: Michael Pollan at PopTech: Vegan in Hummer has lighter carbon footprint than carnivore in Prius.
  20. Disney finally admits Baby Einstein videos were deceptive. http://bit.ly/1fZw9z My wife wrote about the problem in 2006. http://bit.ly/radgM