Recent Readings: Food Money School Oil Bear
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 Posted in Agriculture, Capitalism, Education, Energy, Environment, Recent Readings | No Comments »This may be my only post this week. I'll be at an offsite for work for the next couple of days . . . eh, maybe I'll be able to get one in on Friday. You'll just have to wait ...
Recent Readings: Tomorrow Zealand Fat Mart Panels
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Posted in Energy, Environment, Health, Recent Readings, Sustainability, Technology | No Comments »Great stuff today. Mostly uplifting, always educational. Enjoy. Energy | A Nation Called Tomorrow | "Senator Hillary Clinton this morning staked her place out in the debate over a new energy policy and global warming, and did so definitively, referring to "the ...
NOLA, Two Years Later
Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Development, Environment, Feature, Government, Housing, Sustainability | 5 Comments »As I mentioned in a previous post, my wife and I traveled to New Orleans, LA this past weekend for a wedding. We were fortunate enough to be able to stay an extra day and take a tour of the ...
The Greening of St. Louis
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 Posted in Environment, Politics | No Comments »Here's a link to a good article called, The Greening of St. Louis, from my friends over at Show Me Progress (SMP).
What’s the Point?
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 Posted in Energy, Environment, Responsibility, Society, Technology | 6 Comments »Thomas Friedman's, "Doha and Dalian," piece from last Wednesday's New York Times is depressing, for sure, but also capitulating. His message to Americans: there's no point of buying hybrids or using compact fluorescent light bulbs since energy-consuming development in Asia is ...
Attention, Planet-Destroying Carnivores
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Vegetarianism | 1 Comment »As I've repeatedly pointed out on this site, raising and killing animals for food does more harm to the environment than automobiles, yet society continues to attack other major, but not leading causes of climate change. Now, PETA, with the ...
Junk Mail Begone!
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 Posted in Environment, Ideas, Organizations | 4 Comments »A friend of mine sent me an email regarding a site called GREENDIMES, which is the Internet face of a company focused on helping the environment by reducing junk mail. Essentially, they provide a service for a small fee that ...
Cleaner Air For Fat People
Monday, July 2nd, 2007 Posted in Energy, Environment, Recycling, Responsibility, Technology, Transportation | No Comments »I apologize for the extended hiatus, but between my laziness and traveling, opining (online) has been difficult. I did come across a story today that made me chuckle though. Apparently, McDonald's is going to start using its own cooking oil ...
A Little Of This, A Little of That
Monday, June 18th, 2007 Posted in Energy, Environment, Health | No Comments »The summer heat has set in and the air conditioners are surely humming, mine included. That's why now is a good time to start changing your habits. I'm sure (hopefully) people reading this post do more than their fair share ...
Update: International Symposium on Energy and Environment
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 Posted in Energy, Entertainment, Environment | No Comments »Just two posts ago I wrote about an upcoming conference at Washington University in St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had an update in today's paper called, "Universities see green at forum", detailing some of the outcomes of the Symposium. Washington ...
