Tag Archives: environment

A Bear Buys A $2500 Car, Downloads His Receipt, and Watches T.V.

Well, as I have a small break, I figured I would drop a little nonsense on this dead place once known as Fluid Imagination, also known as FI, also known as where I go to see what people have Twittered because nobody writes anything anymore.
I will start with two things that could help the world…well [...]

Are manual transmissions really that much better for the environment?

From Slate’s Are manual transmissions really that much better for the environment?: “According to the Environmental Protection Agencys fuel economy ratings, cars with manual transmissions typically beat their automatic peers by a mile or two per gallon. This is largely because manuals give you more control over an engines exertions.”

Recycling Rant, (or) Why Recycling Sucks

All right, let me first off say that when I talk “recycling,” I am talking about recycling, not composting. Composting rocks and everyone should do it, even though I don’t right now. But this is not about me. It’s about everyone else.
All right, lets get into it.
Recycling is a scam. It’s there to make everyone [...]

Links for June 11, 2007

Before we get to the links, let me first extend a hearty congratulations to the inestimable Teddy Haggerty and his new bride, Lisa, for throwing a wonderful wedding this past weekend. I think their ceremony may have been even shorter than mine and Dawn’s, and we eloped, for Christ’s sake! It was fantastic. Anyway, congratulations [...]

The Power of Green

From Thomas Friedman’s, eleven-page manifesto, The Power of Green: “A new green ideology, properly defined, has the power to mobilize liberals and conservatives, evangelicals and atheists, big business and environmentalists around an agenda that can both pull us together and propel us forward.” It’s a long ass article to read on the Web, I know, [...]

Hysteria-And-Death-Induced Ramblings

As you know I missed last month’s deadline, so some of this shit is dated.
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30. Thirty. Twenty-ten. No matter how it’s written, it still looks old.
I don’t feel old — well that’s a lie — but I don’t feel any older than I did a couple weeks ago. The main problem with thirty is [...]

Inuit accuse US of destroying their way of life with global warming

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s don’t fuck with Eskimos. This is from Inuit accuse US of destroying their way of life with global warming: “A delegation of Inuit is to travel to Washington DC to provide first-hand testimony of how global warming is destroying their way of life and to [...]

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