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 [...]

It’s been about ten minutes since I finished listening to AC/DC’s new album, Black Ice, and even though I’ve got a mountain of reading and writing ahead of me, I just had to say a few words about my favorite band (in the Southern Hemisphere).
With the whirlwind first cut, Rock N’ Roll Train, the band’s [...]

I read a New York Times article over the weekend (which I’ve been trying to find for about ten minutes without success) about how it’s getting increasingly more difficult to sift through all the trumpeting green messages out there.  Indeed, even after you tune out the plain old greenwashers, even if you ignore advertising completely, [...]

The “special” at my local pizzeria went from $5.00 to $5.50 today.  I asked the guy behind the counter why the price went up.
“Ethanol,” he said, and shrugged his shoulders.
Which got me to thinking.  Lately, I’ve been pretty much immune to things like rising gas prices and fare hikes.  In fact, the last time I [...]

Is that a word?  Just googled it, guess it is…
Okay, now that the mic-check is over, I’ve got something to say.
I’ve been reading a lot about biomimicry lately.  Biomimicry, in a nutshell, is looking to nature for cues on how to design something.  The Wright brothers did a lot of this when they studied birds [...]