LosingOurCool 

Articles, op-ed columns, and other work, 2003-2010

Vertical farms don't stack up
May 2010: Synthesis/Regeneration, AlterNet

Militarism, torture, and . . . air-conditioning?
Earth Day 2010: CounterPunch

Climate-induced earthquakes, bottomless pits of oil, pet dinosaurs, and a miraculous but illegal energy source: There’s never a shortage of weird science!
 April 20, 2010:  AlterNet

Counting Food Miles Leads to Wrong Turns
February 2010: AlterNet

The Inflated Promise of Natural Gas
November 2009: Cleveland Plain Dealer, Bakersfield Californian, CounterPunch, AlterNet, Common Dreams

Squeezing the Juice Out of Fruits, Berries, and People
24 August, 2009: AlterNet
   or, from ColdType.net, the classy print version

Ethanol's Drug Problem
June 2009: Providence Journal, Muskogee (OK) Phoenix, Grand Forks (ND) Herald, Keene (NH) Sentinel, Salina Journal, CounterPunch

There's No Free Lunch on That Browser Menu
March 2009: Biloxi-Gulfport Sun Herald, CounterPunch, AlterNet

India's Fragile New Temples
February 4, 2009: CounterPunch

The Full Price of Florida Swampland
January 15, 2009: AlterNet

Take a Holiday From Clothes Shopping

November, 2008: Kennebec Journal, Peoria Journal-Star, AlterNet

         (and clothes and commentaries that don't fit)

  Saving 7 Billion Environments
  November 12, 2008: MRZine

Who Wants the Germ Jackpot?
September, 2008:  Denver Post, CounterPunch, Common Dreams

Boatloads of Trouble
September 5, 2008: AlterNet

Handcuff the Property Cops
August, 2008: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Kansas City Star, Des Moines Register, Hartford Courant, Biloxi Sun-Herald

Here comes the Post-SUV World!
July 10, 2008: AlterNet, Pacific Sun (Calif.), Energy Bulletin, ColdType
and the op-ed version
July 27, 2008: Hartford Courant

It Will Take a Lot More Than Gardening...Part 1
May-June 2008: CounterPunch, Common Dreams, AlterNet, Energy Bulletin

  Part 2: Fixing a Broken Agriculture
  July 12, 2008: CounterPunch

  Chickens of Mass Destruction?

May 15, 2008: Valley Advocate (Mass.), CounterPunch

   Thirsty Cars Run Over Hungry People
   May 9, 2008: AlterNet, Illinois Times, ZNet, Petroleumworld (Venezuela)

Green as a Blackjack Table
Earth Day, 2008: CounterPunch, AlterNet, Weekender (Johannesburg)

The Germs Next Door
March 26, 2008: CounterPunch, AlterNet, the Manhattan Mercury (op-ed)

Turning Water into Ethanol: No Miracle
March 22, 2008: AlterNet, Albany NY Metroland, Illinois Times, OpEdNews

SUVs without Wheels

March 11, 2008: Providence Journal, Vail Daily, Tracy (CA) Daily News, Pierre SD Capital Journal, Sandusky OH Register, Great Falls MT Tribune, CommonDreams.org

Antimicrobial Backfire
February 2, 2008: Alternet, Open Skies (Emirates Airlines), Chronogram Healthy Living (NY), Valley Advocate (MA)

The Real Death Tax
April 14, 2006: the Salina Journal, CounterPunch

USA or CSA?
April 10, 2006:AlterNet
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News That's Not

Iraq reconstruction funds invested on Wall Street
April 1, 2005: CounterPunch

Dick Cheney asks, "Can you handle the truth?"
September 23, 2003: CounterPunch.org

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Infected Planet
March 21, 2006: AlterNet

Big Medicine's malignant growth
February 22, 2006: AlterNet

The Most Dangerous Professor?
February 8, 2006: CounterPunch
plus
Surviving the War in Style
March 20, 2006: Common Dreams

Unnatural Food Prices
January 25, 2006: AlterNet

Profiting from Pain in the Slaughterhouse
January 4, 2006: AlterNet, Guerrilla News Network

Agroterrorists Needn't Bother
December, 2005: Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Guerilla News Network

Intelligent Design Flunks in Pennsylvania
December 21, 2005: AlterNet

Patents Gone Wild!
December 14, 2005: AlterNet

Red, White, and Blue Dawn
November, 2005: CounterPunch, LewRockwell.com, Alternative Press Review

Got Green?        
November 17, 2005: AlterNet

Hunger for natural gas
... and nitrogen
October 12, 2005: AlterNet
 
You too can play, "Did You Know?"
October 13, 2005: Salina Journal, Antiwar.com, CounterPunch
 
Weird science on the religious Right
August 11, 2005: AlterNet

The richest inheritance is already tax-free
September 11, 2005: Providence Journal, Wilmington News-Journal, Salina Journal, AlterNet, Working for Change

The $256 question
Why are the Feds going after Steve Kurtz?
July 25, 2005: AlterNet

Monkey trial or kangaroo court?
The creationists' plan for Kansas
May 19, 2005: AlterNet
plus
Kreationism in Kansas
July 25, 2005: CounterPunch

Side effects may be severe
May 12, 2005: Providence Journal, Knoxville News-Sentinel, Naples Daily News, Salina Journal,  CommonDreams.org

Wave goodbye to the oil era
April 4, 2005: AlterNet

Two years too many
March 18, 2005:  Antiwar.com, CommonDreams.org, Manhattan Mercury

Bill Moyers, capitalism, and the Rapture
March 14, 2005: CounterPunch.org

Exporting cures, importing misery
January 15, 2005: AlterNet.org

Fighting Big Pharma in little Digwal
February 15, 2005: CounterPunch.org

What kids cost: Delhi vs. Dallas
December, 2004: Providence Journal, Alternet.org, CounterPunch.org

A rerun of The Flintstones without the laugh track
April, 2004: Grist magazine, the Progressive Populist

The small business lobby's big issues
November, 2004: CounterPunch.org

Warning: This diet is not for everyone
December, 2003:  Omaha World-Herald, Lawrence, KS Journal-World, Grist magazine, CounterPunch.org, CommonDreams.org, WorkingForChange.org, AlterNet.org

9/11 and 12/26
January 1, 2005: CounterPunch.org

The Bush / Kerry war ticket
July 20, 2004: CounterPunch.org

Sanitized for your protection
June 29, 2004: CounterPunch.org

The unbearable lightness of photons
February 26, 2004: AlterNet.org, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Life (Pat. Pend.)
February, 2004: Salina Journal, CounterPunch.org

Time to shift the tax debate
April 13, 2004: AlterNet.org, Manhattan Mercury

A Wal-Mart wage doesn't go very far -- even at Wal-Mart
June, 2003:  AlterNet.org, Salina Journal, Manhattan Mercury

Wal-Mart's magic numbers
April 20, 2004: CounterPunch.org

Dispatches from Wal-Mart's front lines
November 17, 2003: AlterNet.org

When Wal-Mart gets a little too greedy
October 28, 2003: AlterNet.org
License to kill 'Marvelous enlargement'
May, 2003: AlterNet.org, CommonDreams.org, Salina Journal

The Mirage of Genetic Engineering Tragedies above and below the surface
February, 2003: The Hindu (India), AlterNet.org
   
"Shock and Awe" can't win this war
March , 2003: Manhattan Mercury

Stan Cox

is a plant breeder and writer living in Salina, Kansas