From Slate’’s Does growing sea ice in Antarctica bode well for the future?: “We’ve all heard that the Arctic ice is disappearing, surefire proof that global warming will kill us all. But isn’t it also true that Antarctica’s ice is growing by leaps and bounds? Doesn’t that mean we’re getting into a lather over nothing?” [...]
About ten days ago, Justin yelled at me for using a gas-powered lawn mower, and I took his words to heart. So yesterday, I mowed the lawn with the rusty old push mower I found in the carriage house. I also did a little research, and found that Manual lawn mowers making a comeback: “Exact [...]
April 29, 2008 – 12:17 pm
So, I was reading an article on Alternet this morning entitled, “We Must Imagine a Life Without Oil.” It’s basically a warning about peak oil, but near the end, the author, Mark Hertsgaard, writes:
Activists in scores of towns and cities around the world are trying to prepare their communities for the transition to a post-oil [...]
February 13, 2008 – 12:31 pm
From the Rutland Herald’s Vermonters want action on energy: “The conversation was really one about values. Vermonters essentially said: ‘Policy-makers: We care about more than just the short-term bottom-line cost of electricity per kilowatt. We care about the health, safety, and environmental risks of our decisions today and the impacts that will be born down [...]
February 11, 2008 – 11:41 am
From TreeHugger.com’s The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia: “I mean, there’s no way I could do a plan for this company and say, ‘What’s this place going to be like by 2020?’ I have no idea. I just know that since we’re running out of petroleum, we better stop being dependent on making [...]
October 31, 2007 – 10:01 am
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.”
October 15, 2007 – 12:16 pm
From a post on the blog, No Impact Man, entitledWhat No Impact feels like after ten months: “You click off family’s electricity and make them go to bed at nine every night because it’s too dark to do anything else. You ban them from the elevator so they have to walk up and down nine [...]
August 30, 2007 – 10:41 am
From the NY Times’ article, Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change: “In late November, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization issued a report stating that the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined. When that report came out, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [...]
From Earth: What Would Happen If Humans Vanished?: “Weismans intriguing thought experiment is to ask what would happen if the rest of the Earth was…evacuated—not by a nuclear holocaust or natural disaster, but by whisking people off in spaceships, or killing them with a virus that spares the rest of the biosphere. In a world [...]
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 [...]
Now Hearing