The only thing better than recycling a plastic bag is reusing it, thereby conserving the energy and materials used to create this temporary convenience. Some people might say there is something better than reusing a plastic bag: Adding energy to the equation — human energy — and transforming the plastic bag into something else. “Green Crafting” website: http://www.myrecycledbags.com/ A [...]
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Check out this three-part series of Climate Wars narrated by the venerable Gwynne Dyer on CBC Radio : http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/climate-wars/index.html (hat tip to Kirsten W) (WARNING: Requires 3 x 50 minutes of semi-attentive listening, so plan/multitask as necessary.) THE BIG PICTURE Dyer examines the geopolitics of climate change, and looks at some of the remedies being proposed for [...]
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. – Doug Larson
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In terms of public awareness efforts, there’s seems to be this gulf between two extremes in approach, with these enviromental-impact-analogies. On the one hand you’ve got boring, extreme nitpicking, and on the other hand, you’ve got stupid-looking oversimplification. And the two approaches hurt each other’s credibility and efficacy.
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There is a very annoying cellphone dead spot between Stamford and Bridgeport CT, on the I-95 highway / Amtrak railway corridor, right by a small coastal town. This little breach in an otherwise frictioness web of connectivity is probably a result of some recalcitrant NIMBYs who earn and spend their income with Big Business but cling to [...]
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flagrantly fragrant intoxicating night air Springtime in the Bronx
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Here’s a silly little idea: When the wearer of this shoe walks on soft ground or through a puddle and then looks back at their footprints, they will see the word “CARBON” printed onto the ground behnd them — a literal rendering of their environmental impact. I couldn’t find anything already like this out [...]
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palisades cliffs bathed orange in winter sunrise through bare tree branches fluttering with plastic bags
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Segue from my previous post: This month the History Channel is premiering a special called “Life After People” where a group of engineers, artists and visual effects technicians have created simulated long term decay scenarios for large, well-known structures such as the Golden Gate Bridge or the Sears Tower. PREVIEW HERE: http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=57582&display_order=1&mini_id=57517 The emphasis of [...]
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Just got this dispatch from the India office: Date: Dec 11, 2007 2:03 AM From: Daniel Spitzberg Subject: less sweet this is less sweet, but, perhaps bittersweet? crisis = opportunity? http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/11/28/a-lesson-for-bop-technologists-put-the-business-model-first somehow, bill gates’ “computer in every household” technology-push lifted off the ground. i guess context is everything.. and the 100$laptop needed to define “household” [...]
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