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“What? I’m not going without overhead lights for the rest of the week, you crazy hippy!” Admittedly, Seattle is dark this time of year, but really? Is Greg truly more attached to overhead lighting than he is to video games and 30 Rock? I too have always considered overhead lighting ...
Energy/Transportation
Back in my post-collegiate salad days, a popular little paperback was published called "50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth." If I'm remembering correctly, it was one of the first books to suggest that we could shop, reuse, and recycle our way to a better world. This ...
Green Living
To say I am disconnected from my food is an understatement. Root vegetables frighten me. A whole fresh squash makes about as much sense to me as cognitive neuroscience. Needless to say, I’m not really much of a cook. It’s not so much that I’ve tried and failed. The issue is that I don’t really ...
Environment
Green Grid
Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the levee system put the very existence of New Orleans in question. New Orleans was viewed by many as unsustainable and unworthy of being rebuilt, and some people actually verbalized a willingness to sacrifice the city. Arsenic and lead were discovered in ...
Environment
About four months ago I moved back to Seattle, where I use a car almost daily, from New York City, where I was car-less for eight years. After eight years of daily, crowded and musty subway commuting, I have to admit that I was anxious to leave that all behind. And I did. I left it all on my ...
Energy/Transportation
Alternative Transportation
New York
The world ocean plays a major role in regulating the climate, in part by absorbing more than a quarter of the billions of tons of heat-trapping greenhouse gas that humans put into atmosphere. Scientists have suspected that even as these human-propelled emissions rise, the ocean's capacity to ...
Environment
Methane Gas
CO2
Global Warming
Climate Change
This morning was triumphant. I opened my bag where I had been gathering garbage from the day before, and found it virtuously lean. The contents included one foil and film apple chips bag, one aluminum cat food can, one cardboard toilet paper roll, and one paper pint that once housed the ...
Environment
Green Grid
There is an emotional side of losing everything, losing your community, and then not knowing when you can go back home. There are so many things that New Orleans residents lost after Hurricane Katrina. In my case it wasn't just losing my house, it was losing all the pictures of my mom, who ...
Environment
Lisa Jackson
In preparation for No Impact Week, my boyfriend and I compulsively had takeout five nights in a row, used the car to run close-by errands (well, it was raining…) and went on a mini shopping spree for things we “needed” around the house. That we were about to drastically reduce our impact for ...
Green Living
A series of measures designed to overhaul California's ailing water infrastructure has come under increased scrutiny this week since being signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday. Some call the reforms a historic achievement ; others say they don't go far enough to tackle the state's ...
Environment
California
Water Conservation
Arnold Schwarzenegger
In Ed Kashi's new book, THREE , the photographer uses triptychs to "play on the visual appetite of a hectic world." Here's Kashi on the project: These triptychs are a celebration of the language of photography, forcing the viewer to “read” each triptych, not only for individual ...
Environment
Ed Rendell
In January of 1776, Philadelphia essayist Thomas Paine published a 47-page pamphlet that changed the world. Within three months, Common Sense had sold 150,000 copies -- in a land of just 2.5 million people -- framing the terms of debate for the American colony's epic break from British rule. By ...
Energy/Transportation
Robert Riley
Oct. 19th, Barentsburg If you think it is strange there is a Russian town on Spitsbergen, remember that this land is not exactly part of Norway. It really is a kind of no-man's territory, not subject to any taxation, where historically a man could arrive from anywhere and stake a claim. The ...
Environment
Climate Change
Svalbard
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On Oct 12, military veterans of OperationFree boarded
two large biodiesel buses in two different states to
begin a historic journey crisscrossing the country to talk to citizens, political leaders and fellow veterans about the national security ...
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The End of the Tour But the Beginning of the Fight
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Oct. 18th, Ny Ålesund, Arctic Science Village In Ny Ålesund, a former mining village that is now an international center for climate research, most of the two hundred researchers and technicians have left for the season. But at the Alfred Wegener Polar Institute, a German engineer still ...
Environment
Climate Change
From all I can gather, the actual on-paper negotiations are moving this week, progressing in some way towards some kind of agreement. (We'll get to what kind of agreement soon.) But we wouldn't have much way of knowing, since proceedings largely disappeared behind closed doors this week. I've ...
Environment
Climate Change
Last month, Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon vowed that his company will not drill for natural gas in New York City's upstate watershed. This may seem like a victory for the "Kill the Drill" campaign , but it's only a partial one: In five years' time, Chesapeake's leases in the ...
Environment
New York
Water Conservation
Methane Gas
Oil Drilling
Oct. 17th, Blomstrand halvøya, Krossfjorden In 1910 Ernest Mansfield was convinced that this was going to be the site of the greatest marble quarry in the world, so he set up the Northern Exploration Company to cut all the stone out. He named the spot New London. Some of his machines remain ...
Environment
Climate Change
October 14th, Sailing toward Magdalena Fjord, 79.6°N, 11°E The bell rings on deck, that means there's something to see. "Ayeaah," says the captain, usually a man of few words, "seven polar bears eating an old whale carcass. I have only seen something like this a few times in ...
Environment
Well that's settled. There won't be a Senate bill before Copenhagen . Which means a lot of things: the US won't have concrete numbers on mitigation targets and finance commitments before COP15 convenes; the difficult job of the American negotiators just got even harder; the international ...
