Dear Mother: December 2008-January 2009

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December 2008/January 2009
Letters from our readers 
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I have just spent three hours researching the Pickens Plan. Well, the more I read, the more excited I became over this pioneer who’s doing something to pull the proverbial cart out of the American dirt — and he plans to do it with good old American resources and power: the power of the people. How cool is that?

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I feel that everybody should be excited about it and jump on the wagon with T. Boone Pickens because, let’s face it, what other plans are out there?

Silvia Maurer
Kendall, Wisconsin

Abbey Rolls in his Grave

Just a comment about “EarthWords,” August/September 2008. Edward Abbey spent much of his career battling the development of the Southwest and the construction of highways through this beautiful landscape. Yet here you are using his words over a horrible example of how a canyon can be ruined. The photo you chose not only shows a road through the center, but also has a quarry and a piece of heavy equipment in it. We always enjoy your magazine, but I think this was bad judgement on your part.

Cam Zimmer
Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

Empowering Exercise

I just finished looking over the October/November 2008 issue and, as always, it was the high point of the week. I was especially interested in the wonderful article on muscle-powered electricity (Make Electricity, While You Exercise) for the little things that eat up so much of the power budget. Many of us could well stand to get a bit of extra exercise, why not crank out enough energy to run your laptop or to listen to some radio before bedtime?

Donald Ezell
Hollywood, Florida

Education, not Legislation

I was browsing through the August/September 2008 issue, when two articles clanged up against my head. First was Raw Milk Renegade, about a farmer who was hauled off by the Pennsylvania police for selling raw milk without a permit. What an outrage; don’t the cops have better things to do than harass farmers trying to make a living?

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