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For example: … It’s hard to imagine just how much corn is required to make a usable amount of ethanol. Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute has a great quote that sums it up: “The grain required to fill a 25-gallon SUV gas tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year.â€� A year ...

An interactive map published by the NY Times allows you to find the immigrants, all the way back to 1880, just before my own ancestors came over from various parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The data is broken down into ten-year intervals and various countries and regions. Now that the presiden...

BMI's Dan Gainor has a great column on the Fox Forum about the silence around "global cooling." This is the winter of environmentalists’ discontent. They desperately want the earth to be warming to prove Al Gore’s truth inviolate and they are going to make you pay thousands of dollars ...

Newsweek says so, as the global downturn is doing what activists couldn’t - closing dirty factories. Via The Atlantic. It is no coincidence that some of the dirtiest industrial operations are falling victim to the global recession. Over the past two decades, much of the world’s manufactu...

The BBC says a team of researchers is reporting that sea levels may rise far higher than forecast because of changes in the polar ice-sheets. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted sea levels would rise 7 to 23 inches by the end of the century, notes the AP. But scientists at a...

St. Francis did not build a church anew, but he repaired an old one, restored an ancient one. He did not tear out the foundation, but he built upon it, ever reserving to Christ his prerogative, though he was not aware of it, for other foundation no one can lay, but that which has been laid, which is...

From the National Geographic : One day in 1963, when Jim Boucher was seven, he was out working the trap­line with his grandfather a few miles south of the Fort McKay First Nation reserve on the Athabasca River in northern Alberta. The country there is wet, rolling fen, dotted with lakes, dissected ...

St. Francis made three murderous robbers welcome with kindness and holy affection, and he consoled them by telling them many inspiring stories, and gave them back assurance that they would win God's mercy. Moreover he promised them that he would obtain mercy and grace for them from the Lord Jesus. H...

St. Francis said, 'The friars under obedience are much edified when their Ministers and preachers gladly devote their time to prayer, and apply themselves to humble and undistinguished tasks. Unless they do this they cannot admonish other friars without embarrassment, injustice, and self-condemnatio...