Pick Your Cancer
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Ideas, Politics, Sustainability, Technology | 1 Comment »Ohhhh 'bama, what have you done? Offshore drilling? Really? Our cancer isn't the dependency on foreign oil, it's the dependency on oil period, and other fossil fuels, from wherever they hail. Oil taken from our backyards, or coal from our stripped lands, ...
Biking In The Big Apple
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Ideas, Transportation | No Comments »Late last week, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that part of Broadway was going to be shrunk from four lanes to two. Booya! Why? To add bike lanes and room for tables and chairs. Double booya! Here's a link. If one ...
Living in the City is Greener
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Government, Ideas, Local, Society | No Comments »A new study has (re)confirmed what is obvious to most: city residents pollute less than their suburban counterparts. The study was completed by the Brookings Institute and released yesterday. The most basic conclusion from the report is that "each resident of ...
Changing Habits
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Climate Change, Environment, Ideas, Society, Vegetarianism | 1 Comment »I received an email from Sierra Club today with a link to a website called 50 Ways to Help the Planet. The crazy thing is, on the site, "they" give you 50 actual ways to help the planet. Unbelievable! This isn't the ...
