Super Eco

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The news reader of a Super Eco writer is a prodigious thing, from domestic and international mainstream news sites to tiny niche blogs. Good ideas come in all sorts of packages, so we follow sites we're sure to disagree with and sites we feel leap to unwarranted conclusions, too. It's this degree of being open to new ideas that paves the way for conversation ... leading to debate ... leading to real change. Consider it (renewable) fuel for our (hybrid) fires.

It was in this mood of discovery that we pounced upon two recent posts from Natural News: A to Z of what's right with America and A to Z of what's wrong with America.

From the Right list:

• B is for Breastfeeding Because the best milk is mother's milk.
• F is for Farmer's Markets The last place in the country where you can still buy real food grown by real people.
• K is for Kayaking- And all the other stuff you can do in the great outdoors across America's amazing national and state parks.

And the Wrong list:

• G is for Genetically Modified Organisms Because playing god with the food supply sounded like such a great idea, we just couldn't resist.
• J is for Junk food Is it junk? Or is it food? It looks like food, but nourishes like junk. Let's all eat some more...
• O is for Oil Why build wind farms when you can just buy more oil from the Arab states or drill in the Amazon?

The tone on this site leans toward strident, but the lists raise thought-provoking questions about issues we've taken for granted for far too long. In this Thanksgiving season of making lists of things we are grateful for, what would you top your lists of things that are right and wrong about the American lifestyle? The ability to ponder just such a pair of lists, in and of itself, is worthy of the #1 spot on the list of Rights.