GBiBT Guest Post from Curtis White, author of THE BARBARIC HEARTSource: GoodBooksinBadTimes Blog
In his new book, The Barbaric Heart:Faith, Money and the Crisis of Nature, author Curtis White proposes a unique, philosophical theory about mainstream environmentalism suggesting that spritual beauty and the arts will guide us to the solutions we seek.

With so much energy being invested lately in analyzing Obama's push to coerce government reform and control of health care, his other pet project, creating a Green economy to stop global warming has fallen off the radar for the moment.
The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights: No More Green GuiltSource:
"Every investment prospectus warns that "past performance is no guarantee of future results." But suppose that an investment professional's record contains nothing but losses, of failed prediction after failed prediction. Who would still entrust that investor with his money?
The Pope: "Creation is under threat"Source: news.mongabay.com
"Together we can build an integral human development beneficial for all peoples, present and future, a development inspired by the values of charity in truth.
What's really in your shampooSource: Salon.com
There are two types of ingredients in shampoo. One type cleans your hair. The other type strokes your emotions. I'm holding a bottle of Pantene Pro V, one of the world's most popular shampoos. Of the 22 ingredients in this bottle of shampoo, three clean hair.
Incorrigible Lomborg: Defending the right of rich people to polluteSource: desmogblog.com
The Disingenuous Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg has once again celebrated a public epiphany on climate change, bringing him. once again, to the conclusion that the globe is warming, that humans are to blame and that we - especially we rich people - shouldn't do anything about it.
Organic has no health benefitsSource: BBC News
Organic food is no healthier than ordinary food, a large independent review has concluded.
There is little difference in nutritional value and no evidence of any extra health benefits from eating organic produce, UK researchers found
Charities Lament 'Cash For Clunkers' ProgramSource: npr.org
When Congress passed a new law to give people up to $4,500 to junk their old cars and buy new, more efficient ones, the auto industry cheered. But some charities say they'll be the unintended victims of this program, and so will the low-income people they try to help.
Bob Barr - Cap-and-trade's a lot of hot airSource: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Barr regarding Cap and Trade legislation: "Its 1,200 pages must rank among the most complex and convoluted pieces of legislation ever devised, making old, Soviet-style government edicts appear streamlined by comparison."
Indigenous Peruvians vow more attacks over control of the AmazonSource: Christian Science Monitor
"Bagua" has become shorthand for an indigenous resistance boiling over throughout remote swaths of the country, as poor Amazonian Indians engage in strikes and blockades to protest laws that would open their rainforest home to energy and agribusiness development.