Now that we’re familiar with the idea of carbon footprints, we can add another even more crucial item to our list, our water footprints. The idea is still new, proposed by a Dutch hydro-engineer, Arjen Hoekstra . At a recent conference in Sweden attended by some 2000 scientists, activists and political representatives, he tried to…

For many the prospect of death is too horrendous to contemplate so that any example how to handle it needs to be hailed. In this case the example is set by Senator Ted Kennedy writing a letter to the Massachusetts legislature to ask a law be changed so that should he be unable to someone…

The healthcare debate has hit many strident notes, and even more troubling is that the debate has been subject to distortion and misinformation. These erroneous pronouncements serve no one safe the egos of those who originate them. Certainly they do not advance the cause of the public good. One of the underlying distortions is about…