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By Vihar Sheth on May 12, 2010
In April of 2010 my wife and I started construction on our new home. Construction should be completed by September of 2010, and when it’s all said and done, our new home will hopefully be St. Louis City’s newest LEED-certified home.
Posted in Hartford House | Tagged Hartford House |
By Vihar Sheth on April 22, 2010
One of the biggest fights in making the St. Louis region smoke-free is concensus from the three most populous counties on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. Anyone who’s following the movement to make our communities healthier knows that the state of Illinois has already made its communities smoke-free, and done so in commendable [...]
Posted in Food & Health, Government & Society | Tagged Activism, Smoke-Free, St. Charles County |
By Vihar Sheth on March 22, 2010
On Saturday, March 27th, a first of its kind music / transportation festival called City Sound Tracks will be held in St. Louis. The event’s main purpose is to highlight the importance of transit in the metro area less than two weeks before a very critical vote in St. Louis County on a sales tax [...]
Posted in Culture, Development & Transportation | Tagged Homelessness, Independent Music, Metro St. Louis, Music, Public Transit |
By Vihar Sheth on February 9, 2010
I love reading about ideas. I come across new ones every almost day, but every now and then one sticks out as either quite remarkable or quite original. Such is this idea from Michael Mautner, Research Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University, who claims seeding the universe with life is not just an option [...]
Posted in Government & Society | Tagged Evolution, Life, Self-Perpetuation, Universe |
By Vihar Sheth on January 22, 2010
For most of the day tomorrow I’ll be attending Hope Summit 2010, “a gathering of advocates, experts, patients and others who will discuss recent stem cell advances and what they could mean to each of us and our families and friends”. The conference is sponsored by the Missouri Coalition for Life Saving Cures and will [...]
Posted in Design & Technology | Tagged Conference, Hope Summit, Missouri Coalition for Life Saving Cures, Stem Cells |
By Vihar Sheth on January 19, 2010
With a little motivation from my brother, he and his wife and my wife and I decided to do a little community service on an oddly foggy Monday morning in St. Louis. We headed north from our respective homes to the College Hill neighborhood on the north side of St. Louis City to clean up some [...]
Posted in Government & Society | Tagged Apathy, Neighborhood, Volunteerism |
By Vihar Sheth on January 18, 2010
All Things Eco Blog Carnival Volume Eighty Five is now available on the All Things Eco Blog. There are some great posts in this carnival on topics ranging from Alternative Energy to Travel and Transportation. Also included is my recent post, “St. Louis County Council Places Transit Tax On The Ballot,” on efforts to raise [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation | Tagged Carnival, Transportation |
By Vihar Sheth on January 14, 2010
In response to the earthquake and 40+ aftershocks in Haiti, CNN.com has put up a page up called “What we’re hearing via social media“. The page is streaming updates from Haiti as they’re coming in, and while the page claims to have updates from various social media everything I’ve read so far is from Twitter. [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation, Government & Society | Tagged Aftershock, Earthquare, Haiti |
By Vihar Sheth on January 13, 2010
I just got this from Citizens for Modern Transit this morning: The St. Louis County Council voted in December to place a ½ cent general sales tax on the ballot on April 6 for transit operations and expansion including MetroLink. Without the passage of this measure, Metro will be cutting more than 30 percent of [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation, Government & Society | Tagged Metro, Tax, Transit |
By Vihar Sheth on January 12, 2010
Below are 10 startling facts we learned in 2009 that underscore the climate threat. I am republishing them from an email I received from the Environmental Defense Fund. A study published in the journal Science reports that the current level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere – about 390 parts per million – is [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy | Tagged Climate Change, Responsibility, Sustainability |
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