Does it take more energy to make ethanol than is contained in ethanol? That question continues to haunt the ethanol industry even after nearly 30...
Smithfield Farms was heavily fined for dumping waste into a Virginia River and forced to build a sewage treatment plant. When we changed trade rules...
On Sunday, April 26, David Morris addressed a crowd hosted by the DFL Education Foundation, on the challenges of developing renewable energy in a time...
The PUC has an approval process that stacks the deck against the public. A few days ago the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a...
David Morris spoke on Earth Day to the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis on ethics. He began with some definitions: Ethics is a set of...
Obama’s Renewable Energy Initiative May Not Bring Power to the People By David Morris, originally published in Alternet, February 6, 2009 The new mantra in...
Obama’s plan for a "national smart grid" needs closer examination. An expanded national grid would be anything but smart. In the New York Times, Al...
Total ad expenditures in the United States have risen from $50 billion in 1979 to $200 billion in 1998. Advertising is seeping into places we...
Green pricing requires a few customers to pay a substantial premium for relatively little power. A much better way for consumers to increase the supply...
Twelve days before the Iowa caucuses, the New York Times Magazine cover, in large white letters on a deep black background, carried the single word...
Recently, the New York Public Library announced it would rename its main library the Stephen A. Schwarzman Library in return for his contribution of $100...
In her latest comment on the "Bridge to Nowhere" controversy, Sarah Palin appealed to the self-reliant, individualist, rugged, anti-government image most Americans have of Alaska....
Dear President-elect Obama, Congratulations on your historic election. Now the truly heavy lifting begins. You have declared your intention to make "a new energy economy"...
Dr. David Morris is co founder and vice president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. His five non-fiction books range from an analysis of Chilean...
Why are we hearing so much about voter fraud and so little about election fraud? After all, the odds of someone voting fraudulently are about...