April 2010
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“One heck of a conspiracy would be needed to get all of these completely...”
– NRDC’s Dan Lashof wrote that, in a blog post about a report that the EPA just released. The report tracks 24 trends, all independent of one another, all indicators that climate change is happening.
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Laundry
One of my favorite recurring, everyday moments is walking away from a full clothesline.
I’ve done my little bit of work, and I’ve passed the job to the sun and the wind. The Sun and The Wind. Working for me. And working, it seems to me, happily.
Now if only we could figure out a similarly free and clean and harmonious system for washing the clothes.
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“European airspace, shrouded in a toxic cloud, has actually become remarkably...”
– According to NRDC’s Peter Malik, the erupting Mt. Eyjafjallajökull has emitted less carbon dioxide than a normally functioning European aviation sector would emit in sixty normal minutes.
Update: Looks like the numbers I used above were wrong. Sorry. The quote still works, however.
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“I was prowling the stone hallways of Christ Church College one rainy day when I...”
– That’s John O’Hurley, as J. Peterman, the character he once played on Seinfeld, describing, in Peterman Catalog style, a biomass-burning energy technology that is a big part of his business.
The man’s now a poop and garbage entrepreneur. For that, I salute him.
I also salute him for...
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On Collapse And Complexity →
That’s a link to a PSFK post about a Clay Shirky article.
Here’s how Shirky ends it:
When ecosystems change and inflexible institutions collapse, their members disperse, abandoning old beliefs, trying new things, making their living in different ways than they used to. It’s easy to see the ways in which collapse to simplicity wrecks the glories of old. But there is one...
