permaculture

[lbsaltzman@aol.com]

I nearly forgot, here is the background on the American Enterprise Institute. 
They are a rightwing think tank funded by corporations like Exxon/Mobil and 
Dow Chemical.  They specialize in these kind of pseudo-rational sounding 
attacks on a variety of subjects like organic farming, global warming and 
other environmental/sustainability issues.  In the past they have claimed 
that tobacco wasn't harmful, global warming is a myth etc. etc.  You can be 
sure that this article wasn't written by some poor little farmer who was 
screwed by advice from Michael Pollen. They are a group of neo-conservatives 
who write what the big corporations want them to write.



Larry Saltzman



http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/american-enterprise-institute


American Enterprise Institute





The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is one of 
the oldest and most influential of the pro-business right-wing think tanks. 
It promotes the advancement of free enterprise capitalism, and has been 
extremely successful in placing its people in influential governmental 
positions, particularly in the Bush Administration. AEI has been described as 
one of the country's main bastions of neoconservatism.

American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Website: www.aei.org

Established: 1943 
President/Executive Director: Christopher DeMuth
Finances: $24,934,545 (2003 income)
Employees: more than 50 resident scholars and fellows
Board of Trustees: Chairman Bruce Kovner (Caxton Associations, LLC); Vice 
Chair Lee R. Raymond=2
0(Exxon Mobil Corporation); Treasurer Tully M. Friedman (Friedman, Fleischer, 
& Lowe LLC); Gordon M. Binder (Coastview Capital, LLC); Harlan Crow (Crow 
Holdings); Christopher DeMuth (American Enterprise Institute); Morton H. 
Fleischer (Spirit Finance Corp.); Christopher B. Galvin (Motorola); Raymond 
V. Gilmartin (Merck & Co.); Harvey Golub (American Express Co.); Robert F. 
Greenhill (Greenhill & Co., LLC) ; Roger Hertog (Alliance Capital Management 
Corporation); Martin M. Koffel (URS Corporation); John A. Luke, Jr. 
(MeadWestvaco Corp.); L. Ben Lytle (Anthem, Inc.); Alex Mandl (Gemplus 
International); Robert A. Pritzker (Colson Associates, Inc.); J. Joe Ricketts 
(Ameritrade Holding Corporation); Kevin B. Rollins (Dell, Inc.); John W. Rowe 
(Exelon Corp.); Edward B. Rust, Jr. (State Farm Insurance Co.); William S. 
Stavropoulos (Dow Chemical Co.); Wilson H. Taylor (CIGNA Corp.); Marilyn Ware 
(American Water); James Q. Wilson (Pepperdine University)
Publications: Monthly newsletter, dozens of books and hundreds of articles 
and reports each year, and a glossy policy magazine, The American Enterprise.

Read the latest news on the American Enterprise Institute on the group's 
Right Wing Watch index page

Principal Issues


American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is a think tank for conservatives, 
neoconservatives, and conservative libertarians. 

Areas of interest include: America's "culture war," domestic policy and 
federal spending, education reform, neoconservatism, affirmative action, and 
welfare reform. 

President George W. Bush has appointed over a dozen people from AEI to
 senior positions in his administration. AEI claims that this is more than 
any other research institution. 


 

Activities


AEI sponsors and participates in debates and lectures on many issues. 

AEI scholars have testified before Congress on a variety of issues. 

Several AEI scholars have written articles in favor of government censorship 
of the arts. 

Scholar Michael Novak has argued that prayer belongs in public schools and 
that it doesn't violate the establishment clause. 

AEI scholars have advocated federally-funded school voucher programs. 


 

Background and History


Most of AEI's Board of Directors are CEOs of major companies, including 
ExxonMobil, Motorola, American Express, State Farm Insurance, and Dow 
Chemicals. 

Big donors include the top conservative foundations, including 
Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Olin Foundation, the Scaife Foundation, and 
the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. 

Corporate supporters have included: General Electric Foundation, Amoco, Kraft 
Foundation, Ford Motor Company Fund, General Motors Foundation, Eastman Kodak 
Foundation, Metropolitan Life Foundation, Proctor & Gamble Fund, Shell 
Companies Foundation, Chrysler Corporation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, 
General Mills Foundation, Pillsbury Company Foundation, Prudential 
Foundation, American Express Foundation, AT&T Foundation, Corning Glass Works 
Foundation, Morgan Guarantee Trust, Smith-Richardson Foundation, Alcoa 
Foundation, and PPG Industries. 

Kenneth Lay, CEO of Enron, was until recently on the board of trustees of 
American Enter
prise Institute. Other famous former trustees include Vice President Dick 
Cheney. 


 

AEI Fellows and Scholars [partial list]


Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney and former chair of the 
National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House. 

David Frum, a presidential speechwriter for President Bush, contributing 
editor to the right-wing magazine Weekly Standard. 

Christina Hoff Sommers, anti-feminist crusader, author of Who Stole Feminism? 
How Women Betrayed Women. 

Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve, a book that asserted inherent 
intelligence differences between the races. 

Ben J. Wattenberg, host of PBS weekly show "Think Tank." 












-----Original Message-----
From: sean forde <sforde@gmail.com>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wed, Aug 12, 2009 12:36 pm
Subject: [permaculture] Advice for a corn farmer vexed by bugs nesting in 
clover?



In Blake Hurst's article, "The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the
gri-intellectuals" he complains that planting clover to produce nitrogen
ad an unwanted side effect - bugs - and that forced him to use an
nsecticide. Does anyone have any real world experience to help him out?
Here is an excerpt from the article (
ttp://www.american.com/archive/2009/july/the-omnivore2019s-delusion-against-the-agri-intellectuals

"A few other problems come to mind. The last time I planted a cover crop,
he clover provided a perfect habitat in early spring for bugs, bugs that I
ad to kill with an insecticide. We do not20normally apply insecticides, but
e did that year. Of course, you can provide nitrogen with legumes by using
 longer crop rotation, growing clover one year and corn the next. But that
ses twice as much water to produce a corn crop, and takes twice as much
and to produce the same number of bushels. We are producing twice the food
e did in 1960 on less land, and commercial nitrogen is one of the main
easons why. It may be that we decide we would rather spend land and water
han energy, but Pollan never mentions that we are faced with that choice."
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