An interesting little article from Seattle on the choices in hand drying. Just goes to show you how complicated some of these things can be.
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Dave
Monday, June 30, 2008
Cloth vs Paper vs Air, How To Dry Your Hands
All Sorts of Plug In Hybrid/EV Information
Want a gas/electric plug in hybrid or full EV but are tired of waiting for it? Here are a number of stories about how close they may be. Sadly you'll notice that most fo the companies going electric are not American. Seems the US auto industry is yet again, poised to miss the boat.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
US Falling Short on Greenhouse Gas Emmisions
From Democracy Now
Four Nations Attempt to Become Carbon Neutral
World Environment Day is being marked around the world today. It comes as four countries are competing to become the first nation to go entirely carbon neutral. Iceland, Norway, Costa Rica and New Zealand are all attempting to reduce their net emissions of greenhouse gases to zero. Jeanette Fitzsimons of the Green Party in New Zealand said great progress has already been made.
Jeanette Fitzsimons: “Our electricity system is nearly 70 percent renewable now, mainly from hydro, but with some geothermal and increasingly a little bit of wind. We have a goal, a government goal, to raise that to 90 percent renewable by 2025.”
Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting the United States will announce next month that it cannot meet an international goal of making big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Chief US climate negotiator Harlan Watson said, “It’s frankly not do-able for us.”
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
16 Year Old Kid Breaks Down Plastic Bags
Here's a cool little story about a high school kid who just won a bunch of awards for isolating the microorganisms that break down plastic bags. The hope is that if done on a large scale, this can help clean up some of the mess that is out there.
While I think this kind of research is a double edged sword, we need to stop using plastic bags, not give people a reason to think it's all going to be ok, I like the idea of how this came about. Here's a kid who got sick of opening the closet door and having all those bags come out on top of him. So he decided to do something. It's why I have faith in the fact that we are going to fix this whole mess, kids are black and white, they are smarter than us, and they don't like being told that they can't do something.
And he's got a cool haircut to boot!
Thanks to Nick for sending this in.
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Dave
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