Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:08 AM
Jeff Rubin
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While airlines are on the front lines, just think of all the other ways the volcano has short-circuited the global economy. Consider the millions of meetings that never happened, the millions of business transactions that didn’t get made, the millions of missed hotel and car reservations. And think of the thousands of airline passengers who took global travel for granted only to find themselves stranded in European airports.
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Matt Redsell of Port Burwell has, for the past several years, been tryingto live as close as possible to a ‘sustainable’ lifestye.  He has done several very interesting things one of which is to raise chickens since 2008.

“His local bylaw officer wants to make a new bylaw to ban him from
having his two chickens.” Matt says the hardest thing about this effort at sustainable living is having to deal with the local bureaucracy.

Take some time and read the full details of Matt’s struggle. Here’s the link to this website.

Matt’s Pet Chickens

Take a look at “‘the pickup truck of bicycles”, click here

Drywall can corrode US-China links
By Benjamin A Shobert

Horror stories of Chinese-made products laden with unforeseen quality problems have been in ample supply in recent years. But the recent problems with Chinese drywall – panels used to create interior walls – are different and more symbolically potent problems for US-China relations than those posed by tainted dog food or lead-laced toys.
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The Chinese product appears to be damaging sensitive household electronics, corroding domestic heating and ventilation systems and copper tubing, as well as causing health problems for homeowners where it has been installed.
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Read the full article here

Hardly surprising, and the ramifications seem to be going way beyond a simple bad product.