In spite of the promises by Detroit and the lavish spreads in Popular Mechanics, the flying car I was promised in the July 1957 is really no closer to a reality now than it was then. Sure, there are some one off solutions, but honestly, who can afford to drive or fly something [...]
Amazon.com is headquartered in Seattle, Washington; that high tech, granola crunchy capitol of America.
Recently Amazon has proven to be a concerned environmental citizen as well as being a totally awesome on-line retailer. Starting with 19 best-selling products from leading manufacturers including Fisher-Price, Mattel, Microsoft and electronics manufacturer Transcend, Amazon is introducing Frustration-Free Packaging.
The [...]
While browsing on the Interwebs today I found this article that discusses 6 technologies that don’t know they are dead. And the first one I saw, the phonebook, has been a thorn in my side now for so many years I just had to post it.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I used [...]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out against the energy policy of presidential candidate John McCain. Criticizing the much ridiculed proposal to lift the ban on off-shore oil drilling, Arnold has made no secret of his disdain for the proposal – even with Florida Governor Charlie Crist, a supporter of the proposal within earshot.
Arnold [...]
John Mashek, a retired political journalist and part time teacher has a Blog over at U.S. News and World Report where he is busy commenting on politics. He posted some thoughts yesterday that struck a chord in my battle weary heart. He was referring to the Mukasey confirmation votes by Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and [...]
Ben Popken over at The Consumerist just posted about a new service called Catalog Choice, an Opt-Out service for those nasty and unwanted catalogs you get in the mail all the time. Catalog Choice is a sponsored project of the Ecology Center whose mission is is to reduce the number unsolicited catalog mailings. Sounds good [...]
"If you build it, they will come." That line caused Kevin Costner to plow under some corn and build a ball field out in the Great American Heartland. But that was 18 years ago and the times have changed. All Kevin could look forward to if he built that ball field today is heat stroke [...]
In 1988, a scientist in the employ of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), testified before Congress and stated that he was 99% sure that Global Warming was here. That statement, made by James Hansen, has been subjected to enormous worldwide scrutiny ever since.
In the 19 years since then, has [...]
There are many things that affect our environment, from global warming to the overgrazing of our pastures and prairies. There are so many inter-connected variables that it’s hard to keep track.
Thankfully, someone over at Wikipedia is keeping track for me. There are three great lists that bring some of the issues into clearer light [...]
I know, it’s not always easy to be environmentally conscious. So many things can get in the way. Just trying to keep even with the world we’ve created, let alone get ahead, can take up more time than seems reasonable in many cases.
But there are a few things that even the most [...]
Today is Blog Action Day. An initiative to bind the blogging community together for one day on one topic. Today thousands of bloggers will post articles that relate to environmental issues in an effort to get people talking about a better future not only for ourselves, but for our children [...]
One of my favorite game franchises, SimCity, has added a module which takes into account the effects of carbon dioxide. Building a city and ignoring the issue will lead to elevated levels of greenhouse gasses and your carefully laid out cities will start to die off.
Players can take the path less chosen and build cities [...]
Monday of last week I mentioned in my News You Can Use segment that a study by Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, and Peter Webster of Georgia Institute of Technology was published which indicates that Twice as many storms had formed each year from 1995 to 2005. Well, today NOAA, [...]
An article on Information Week gives hope to Vonage customers everywhere. "We have substantially completed the deployment of workarounds for the two name translation patents and have completed the development of the wireless patent workaround," said Vonage chairman and chief executive Jeffrey Citron, in an e-mail message. "This is a significant step toward moving ahead [...]
Twice as many Atlantic hurricanes formed each year from 1995 to 2005, on average, than formed during parallel years a century ago finds a new statistical analysis of hurricanes and tropical storms in the north Atlantic. The researchers conclude that warmer sea surface temperatures and altered wind patterns associated with global climate change are responsible [...]
Rent-A-Goat
I think it was my sister Erin who mentioned to me a couple of years ago that she wanted to start (or maybe just find) a rent-a-goat business. The idea was that since they’ll eat just about anything you could use them for brush clearing, lawn mowing, etc. It appears that someone here [...]
