Coal, Coal, Go Away
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Energy, Technology, Transportation | No Comments »People all over the country are fighting the good fight against coal. According to the Associated Press: In federal and state courtrooms across the country, environmental groups are putting coal-fueled power plants on trial in a bid to slow the industry's ...
Recent Readings: Farm Whale Continent Waste Car
Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Agriculture, Animal Cruelty, Government, Recent Readings, Recycling, Transportation | No Comments »How goes your 2008 thus far? Hopefully it's shaping up as planned. I know it's only January 14 but I've worked out more in 2008 than I did in the last two months of 2007. Where are all the gift ...
Recent Readings: Rainforest Capture Wind Datacenter Train
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Government, Recent Readings, Technology, Transportation | No Comments »'sup? [speaker makes obligatory head bob] Quite a variety of information today, and as always, really good stuff. Climate Change | The Playbook for Bali | "My guess is that we still don't emerge with a solid funding mechanism to deal ...
Ethanol Wanks
Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Posted in Energy, Transportation | 2 Comments »I've said it a dozens times right here on this blog - the ethanol craze is mind-numbingly ill-founded and politically driven. Now there's science (ahhhhh!) to back it up. I don't read USA Today often, but I was traveling for work ...
Hallogreen
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in Agriculture, Animal Cruelty, Children, Climate Change, Transportation | No Comments »I know, tacky subject line. If you don't like it start writing your own freakin' blog. Two months left in 2007 and the ghouls and goblins of global warming are alive and well. A couple of victories against coal have ...
Follow Up: Toyota, Friend of Foe?
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted in Transportation | No Comments »On October 15 I posted an article about my exchange with Toyota regarding its support of a certain fuel standards bill over another. I was motivated to write in to the company after receiving an email from the Natural Resource Defense ...
Toyota, Friend or Foe?
Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in Transportation | 3 Comments »Today I received an email from my friends at NRDC Action Fund asking me to write to Toyota. Here's the email they sent me: Dear Vihar, The same car company that put the world's best-selling hybrid on the road is now asking ...
Friday Wrap-Up
Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Awards, Climate Change, Development, Energy, Recent Readings, Transportation | No Comments »Not really jonesin' to write about any one thing today so I thought I share what I've been reading. As long-time readers know, I used to intermittently post a Sustain-a-Links newsletter, which basically consisted of tidbits from interesting articles from ...
Walk Score
Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Posted in Ideas, Technology, Transportation | 3 Comments »I think I got this link from Sierra Club but I'm not sure, so thank you to the source, whomever you are. Why can't I think of stuff like this? From the site: What is Walk Score? We help homebuyers, renters, and ...
Green Car Show
Friday, September 21st, 2007 Posted in Technology, Transportation | No Comments »So, the wife and I attended the StL Green Drinks 3rd Annual Car Show on Wednesday night. Sharing a local brewery's parking lot with a neighborhood farmers' market, the event showcased some common and uncommon vehicles, most of which I've ...
