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 [...]
Tag Archives: environmentalism
Patagonia Plans Ahead
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 [...]
Are manual transmissions really that much better for the environment?
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.”
What No Impact feels like after ten months
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 [...]
Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change
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 [...]
Earth: What Would Happen If Humans Vanished?
July 16, 2007 – 12:10 pm
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 [...]
Recycling Rant, (or) Why Recycling Sucks
June 22, 2007 – 10:36 am
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 [...]
Green Rambling
May 24, 2007 – 10:53 am
Waste Equals Food: Our Future and the Making of Things. Read it.
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I know most of you are a bunch of commies that hate baseball, but I can honestly say I love it. Now this is weird for me, because I never played baseball, didn’t have any family that liked it (no father-son or older brother [...]
Links for May 22, 2007
May 22, 2007 – 12:32 am
Bloomberg Proposes Energy Efficient Taxi Fleet: “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced today a plan to replace [New York City's] entire yellow cab fleet with environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles in the next five years. ‘There’s an awful lot of taxicabs on the streets of New York City obviously, so it makes a real big difference,†Mayor [...]
Power station harnesses Suns rays
May 4, 2007 – 10:10 am
From Power station harnesses Suns rays: “It is Europes first commercially operating power station using the Suns energy this way and at the moment its operator, Solucar, proudly claims that it generates 11 Megawatts MW of electricity without emitting a single puff of greenhouse gas. This current figure is enough to power up to 6,000 [...]
