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How bad is not sorting your plastics for recycling? - By Brendan I. Koerner - Sl…
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May 7, 9:03pm
3 reviews
environment, plastic, recycle
http://www.slate.com/id/2190734/
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From the page: "I've been tossing my used yogurt cups in the recycling bin for years. So imagine my horror when I recently got around to reading the fine print on my city's sanitation guidelines--yogurt cups, it turns out, are supposed to go in the regular trash. Has my inadvertent sorting error ruined many tons' worth of recyclable plastics?"
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The Simple Dollar & The Snowball Effect: How Little Moves Now Can Create Huge Ef…
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May 3, 6:08pm
4 reviews
investing
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/04/21/the-snowball-effect-how-little-move...
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It is interesting. To make it more convincing, it needs to take time into the equation. Making your own laundry detergent vs. buying tide. Do you have spend 15 minutes on it? If you make $10 per hour, then it is no big deal. But if you make $100 per hour, 15 minutes can make an impact.
Of course, you can also add environmental effects into the equation. Anyway, this is an interest but incomplete article
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Thomas: Global Warming Not a Big Campaign Issue | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 20…
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Apr 25, 9:49pm
4 reviews
environment, politics, election
http://www.newsweek.com/id/133652
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From the page: "There is an enormous class divide on the subject. The chattering classes obsess about greenhouse emissions. The rest of the country, certainly the older and less well-off voters, can't be bothered. Slow food to most people means that the waitress at the local IHOP is falling behind. The politicians duck the issue, or so it seems."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041900942.…
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Apr 25, 9:32pm
1 review
ecology, politics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR20080419009...
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From the page: "Some wildlife researchers have grown so concerned about the consequences of bisecting hundreds of miles of rugged habitat that they have talked of engaging in civil disobedience to block the fence's construction.
"This wall is so asinine, and so wrong, I am one of a dozen scientists ready to lay our bodies down in front of tractors," Healy Hamilton, who directs the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information at the California Academy of Sciences, told colleagues at a recent scientific retreat here. "This is one thing we might be able to stop.""
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Technology Review: Part I: Chinas Coal Future
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Apr 25, 8:33pm
1 review
science, energy
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/17963/
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An excellent overview of the energy situation in China.
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Hybrid cars arent just for smug yuppies anymore. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magaz…
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Apr 10, 12:10am
1 review
cars, hybrid-cars, fuel-ecomony
http://www.slate.com/id/2188685/
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From the page: "Given that consumersâ€"even well-off consumers who shop at places such as Starbucks and Nordstromâ€"have been pulling back in recent months, one would have thought that hybrid sales would be tanking. After all, during recessions, discretionary products suffer while discount products and companies thrive, which is why Wal-Mart has been doing well. But at Toyota, hybrids have been doing well. In March, a month in which total sales fell 3.4 percent from March 2007, Toyota sold 31,552 hybrids, up 19 percent from the year before"
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The New York Times & Log In
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Apr 9, 12:17pm
1 review
agriculture, environment
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/business/09conserve.html?_r=1&ex=1365480000...
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Money talks, again.
From the page: "Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government's biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate. They are spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops. Last fall, they took back as many acres as are in Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
Environmental and hunting groups are warning that years of progress could soon be lost, particularly with the native prairie in the Upper Midwest. But a broad coalition of baking, poultry, snack food, ethanol and livestock groups say bigger harvests are a more important priority than habitats for waterfowl and other wildlife. They want the government to ease restrictions on the preserved land, which would encourage many more farmers to think beyond conservation."
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Bay Weekly: Bay Reflections
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Apr 8, 11:03pm
1 review
environment, homemaking
http://www.bayweekly.com/year07/issuexv41/reflectxv41.html
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A little out of date, interesting nonetheless. From the page: "When my young groom balked at going hiking in the canyons of Utah because the cabbage crop was coming in, I realized that we might not be on the same page. "I'll buy a case of organic sauerkraut," I told him. "I'm not missing this trip.""
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The New York Times & Log In
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Apr 8, 9:10pm
1 review
multimedia, ocean, reef
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/us/08reef.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Artificial reef, anyone? From the page: "One by one, a machine operator has been shoving hundreds of retired New York City subway cars off a barge, continuing the transformation of a barren stretch of ocean floor into a bountiful oasis, carpeted in sea grasses, walled thick with blue mussels and sponges, and teeming with black sea bass and tautog.
"They're basically luxury condominiums for fish," Jeff Tinsman, artificial reef program manager for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, said as one of 48 of the 19-ton retirees from New York City sank toward the 666 already on the ocean floor."
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The New York Times & Log In
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Apr 7, 1:54pm
1 review
agriculture, food, corn, bio-fuel
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/opinion/07krugman.html
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From the page: "There have already been food riots around the world. Food-supplying countries, from Ukraine to Argentina, have been limiting exports in an attempt to protect domestic consumers, leading to angry protests from farmers â€" and making things even worse in countries that need to import food.
How did this happen? The answer is a combination of long-term trends, bad luck â€" and bad policy."
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