July 5th 2010
Archive for the 'Environment' Category
June 14th 2010
Massive spill of Bullshit from BP Headquarters
Again, the Onion provides great satire:
I could laugh about it if I did not want to cry at the same time….
March 18th 2010
Bill Maher: The Environment Is The Ultimate Health Care Issue
Maher was blown away by Holmes’ skepticism and shot down Johnson for opposing cap and trade legislation. Maher pointed out that Republicans weren’t so disgusted by cap and trade when George H.W. Bush used it to stop acid rain.
It’s amazing how hard it is to get through to these people… :-(
January 26th 2010
Fusion getting there?
I can’t quite follow the idea here, but some people obviously can…
This is supposed to finally getting fusion energy here… so I’m all for it! :-)
January 21st 2010
Just one bottle
‘How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?’ 30 Million People Wonder?
The Onion had been known to be spot-on before and I think this time is no exception. The problem is that most people don’t think twice about this when in fact, they should. It is the same with throwaway plastic bags. Just one don’t matter. But millions of times a day it becomes a big problem…
December 23rd 2009
LED traffic lights don’t melt snow – problem!
New traffic lights use LED’s to generate the light – and because of that, they don’t generate warmth…
That this leads to problems is almost funny :-)
December 7th 2009
I don’t get it…
Already 85 percent of Sumatra’s forests are gone. What is left is vanishing at an alarming rate — an area the size of 50 football fields disappears every hour, according to Greenpeace and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
To make paper, they destroy this unique environment. It should make you weep…
November 25th 2009
Beautiful, net zero energy building
Link
Men, whould I love to live here… wow! Very beautifull design and apparently environmentally sustainable as well. Amazing!
October 13th 2009
China is filling up – with trash….
The amount of trash (real trash, not crappy products!) the Chinese are producing is growing very rapidly:
Lets hope that as the problems over there get bigger, they start worrying more about the amount of products they can produce while sustaining a healthy environment…
September 23rd 2009
SoS under attack!
A piece in the New York Times about the Story of Stuff, a movie the DailyDigital has written about before. I think it is a very important movie…
So, apparently, does the NYT! It is very encouraging to hear that this movie is making inroads into more and more classrooms in the USA.