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Monday, 9 March 2009

Recycling is dying

Recycling is dying, and not before time.  Save the Humans has the welcome news.

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  • The Antiplanner
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  • The Antiplanner
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  • What Is Stoicism? 🌷
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  • No Right Turn
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  • David Stockman's Contra Corner
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  • Greater Auckland
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    Rationalists Turn on Fatima, Update on Venezuela, and More - Links for April 2026
  • Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere
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  • American Energy Alliance
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  • Israel Institute of NZ
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  • The Integrity Institute
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  • American Institute of Economic Research
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  • Middle East Uncovered
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  • The Common Reader
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  • Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life
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  • Rob Henderson's Newsletter
    Microlooting, Life at the Bottom, Violence - Links and recommendations
  • Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York
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  • Uncharted Territories
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  • pre[FABRICA]tions
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  • DGMLive
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  • The Whakataki Times
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  • The Cobden Centre
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  • Quote Investigator
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  • A Halfling's View
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  • The Organon Architecture Blog
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  • Autonomia
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  • HardmoneyJim
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  • The Tracinski Letter
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  • Flying Out
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  • Fictionosophy
    Violence and Neglect in On Earth As It Is Beneath - The premise was intriguing, but unless one is deeply interested in depictions of prison systems, I would not recommend it.
  • News & Announcements | The 13th Floor
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  • Conflicted
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  • CO2 Coalition
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  • The Intrinsic Perspective
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  • Speaking Wrong At The Right Time
    Cavalier with Death: How Political Bloodlust Went Mainstream - It frightens me when I see smiling faces flip into demonic scowls because one man’s name dared to be mentioned
  • Dead Language Society
    The Canterbury Commute - Verses composed in Middle English while waiting for the 7:42 train
  • Perennial Meditations
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  • The Most Endangered Species (Jeffrey Falk)
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  • The Roots of Liberty
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  • visa's voltaic verses ⚡️
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    Einstein-Inspired Poetry - From Cringe to Courage
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  • Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
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  • Chris Trotter
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  • The Jolly Libertarian
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  • Unmasked (Ian Miller)
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  • Cremieux Recueil
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  • Libertarian Land
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  • The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks
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  • Africa’s Bright Future
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  • Reason Foundation
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  • Stewart Margolis
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    Introduction to Evolution Through Art - Art — Integrator of the Human Spirit
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  • Beyond the Noise (Paul Offit)
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  • Education plus ... Challenging Mediocrity.
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  • A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand
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  • bad cattitude
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  • JunkScience.com
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  • The Breakthrough Journal
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  • Tross Publishing
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  • Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf
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  • Risk & Progress
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  • Real Clear Energy: Video
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  • Kiwipolitico
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  • A Havenstein Moment.
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  • The Future of Being Human
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  • Sinification
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  • misfits' architecture
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  • Glenn’s Substack
    Our Self-Colonized Nation - When the parasites stop riding along and start driving.
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  • To make the darkness conscious - Zoran's Substack
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  • Skeptic
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  • History Reclaimed
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  • PERC - Property + Environment Research Center
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  • Africa-Israel Weekly
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  • Conspicuous Cognition
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  • RenewNZ
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  • GeekPress
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  • Theatreview
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  • One Useful Thing
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  • Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking
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  • Beautiful Wisdom, by Peter Saint-Andre
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  • Roy Spencer, PhD.
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  • Johnny Grey Studios
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  • Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays
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  • Freethink Media
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  • Alex Nowrasteh's Deep Dives
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    DEFROSTED book launch and signing event - Dear Friends and Family,
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  • The Roots of Progress
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  • Roots of Progress
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  • Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right
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  • PM of NZ
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  • Roberto’s Substack
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  • Earthly Idealism
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  • Eat More Electrons
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  • Asymmetric Information
    Position vacant: Editor-in-chief, NZ Economic Papers🍋 - Applications now open, closing 18 May 2026
  • Dramatic Pause
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  • Reason for Living
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  • Interintellect
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  • Mike’s Substack
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  • Competitive Enterprise Institute
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  • Democracy Action
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  • Master Resource
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  • Consulting by RPM || Free Advice Blog
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  • Coordination Problem
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  • Coordination Problem
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  • Focus on Right and Wrong, Not Right and Left | SEPARATE!
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  • Julian Burnside
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  • Center for Industrial Progress
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  • Center for Industrial Progress
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  • Center for Industrial Progress
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  • Popehat
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  • Reviving Reason
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  • Mish Talk
    The Psychology of QE is Far More Important Than the Amount of It - Let's discuss what QE really does vs the psychology of QE.
  • Check Your Premises
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  • The New Atlantis
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  • 'The Critic' Magazine
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  • Scott Holleran
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  • Comments on: Wind Turbine Noise: Real Impacts on Neighbors
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  • The Long Run
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  • Urban – PERC
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  • Kiwi Gun Blog
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  • Stories by MIT Legatum Center on Medium
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  • Mencken's Ghost
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  • Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student
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  • Center for the Legalization of Privacy
    Facebook & Government Responses to CLP Amicus Brief Reveal Conflicting Views of Your Privacy Under Imminent Settlement - Those of you who have been following CLP’s involvement in United States v. Facebook know that, in our amicus brief … Continue reading →
  • positive check
    From West to East: Bolivian regional GDPs since the 1950s - *José Peres-Cajías* *Universitat de Barcelona* The political disruption that is taking place worldwide during the last years has prompted the proliferati...
  • Open Borders: The Case
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  • Irshad Manji
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  • Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality
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  • Inductive Quest
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  • from FEE
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  • Montessori Rocks
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  • Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking
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  • Cities Matter
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  • The Sand Pit
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  • Professor Werner
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  • News - Democracy Action
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  • EconTalk
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  • sportreview.net.nz
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  • John P. McCaskey
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  • Planetizen
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  • The Dim-Post
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  • The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog
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  • Life Behind the IRon Drape
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  • The PRODOS blog
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  • THE WEEKLY WRIGHT-UP
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  • Tibor's space
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