Archives for posts tagged ‘environment’

Please! Think of the Children!!

I read in Wired today that the current Big Brother bill in congress, which would keep a two year log of everything we do on the internet, is being pushed through under the guise of helping us combat child pornography.  Don’t believe me?  Look at the acronym.  As we all know, the purpose of a [...]

Hybrid Age in Dog Years: Finally Answered

A while back, I posted on the growing concern I had with the long-term viability of hybrid cars, based on all the fancy doo-dads under the hood, contrasted with the budgets of the usual people who buy eight to ten year old cars.  And it seems that Toyota employee Jon F. Thomson, in answering a [...]

America’s Most Wanted: Green Edition

Okay, apparently, the EPA now has its own ‘most wanted list’ now, full of baddies who dump, dupe, or spray illegally.  First of all, I want to say how happy I am that eco-villans are no longer just the stuff of James Bond or Captain Planet.  In the grand scheme of things, it’s much more [...]

The U.N. -vs- The World

It had to happen sometime and it finally has…  The U.N. is going green.  Sort of.  According to the New York Times, the glass curtain of the famous East River Headquarters will be redone with new super-insulated glass and windows that are designed not to open, which, combined with other improvements in the heating and [...]

Global Warming: Crisis Averted

    An area man claims to have invented a singular solution to the greatest problem facing our world today, global climate change.
    By inverting a few simple household rules, Patrick Kennedy, a 27 year-old aspiring urban planner, is staring in the face of destiny, or so he maintains in his press release.
    “Remember when you [...]