Posted in environment on July 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Seen Wall-e? It’s a cute summer movie with amazing animation. It’s easy to think of the world it depicts - one that is covered in trash - as hyperbole. For the most part, it is. But it’s not that extreme or far away from reality. In fact, it’s uncomfortably close for some people in the [...]
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Posted in environment, political on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I join RFN in a call-out to Clinton: drop it, or, at the very least cut the shenanigans. We get that you’ll do anything to win. You don’t have to actually do anything.
Related: Reverend Wright, I would also like to ask you to pipe down. Silence is golden.
On the other hand, kudos to the folks [...]
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Posted in environment on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s one of the US carbon footprint.
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For me to say something interesting, check out this article on FREE electric cars! Coming soon!
I came across it while I was doing research. No, I’m not surfing the web aimlessly in search of free electric cars.
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Alan Weisman wrote a book about what would happen if humans were wiped out, and it’s a conservationist’s wet dream (NYT bestseller, by the way). I seriously doubt that any real amount of people are going to get on the voluntary human extinction bandwagon (if you can even call it that). But consider [...]
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Posted in environment on October 2, 2007 | No Comments »
This summer saw more moving and melting on the polar icecaps than any summer on record. Scientists are scrambling to keep up.
The pace of change has far exceeded what had been estimated by almost all the simulations used to envision how the Arctic will respond to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases linked to global [...]
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When I first heard about these studies on the environmental impact of bottled water, I instantly realized that I agree.
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Is city water better than bottled water? Mayor Gavin Newsom thinks so.Newsom has issued an executive order banning city departments from buying bottled water, even for water coolers. The ban goes [...]
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Pretty much! But, what does one do about that?
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Posted in environment on June 24, 2006 | No Comments »
I saw the Inconvenient Truth recently. I’ve decided, with the help of my husband, that there are 3 significant elements to the message of this movie (unless you’d been totally clueless about global warming before the movie, in which case the whole thing is significant).
1. Human-influenced Global Warming is not a myth. [...]
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