Archive: Jun 2012
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Did climate change ’cause’ the Colorado wildfires?
The question of whether climate change "causes" certain events drives David Roberts a little nuts, but he tries to tackle it once and for all.
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Healthcare ruling’s environmental fallout: What is the meaning of ‘inactivity’?
The conservatives who failed to overturn Obamacare did manage to put a ridiculous new legal doctrine into play that will plague sensible environmental regulations for years.
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Watch an engine take itself apart, clean itself, and put itself back together
When your stuff breaks, the world is usually better off if you can fix or refurbish it rather than throwing it out and buying a new one. But that’s hard and not everyone knows how to do it, especially with complicated stuff like engines.
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‘Monsanto Protection Act’ would keep GMO crops in the ground during legal battles
One sneaky provision on this year's agriculture appropriations docket would practically give biotech companies immunity from USDA regulation. Needless to say, activists are up in arms.
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The news pays almost 50 times more attention to Kardashians than to ocean acidification
It’s probably not a huge surprise that ocean acidification, a carbon-induced chemical change that poses a huge threat to sea life, gets way less media coverage than the Kardashians, a family of prancing ninnies that poses a huge threat to intellectual life. But Media Matters has quantified just how much the coverage differs, and it’s […]
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These amazing lamps are made of salt
If Daniel McDonald’s Shio lamps didn’t cost $475 and up, they could do double duty seasoning your food or attracting deer. At this price point, you probably want to preserve them, unless you’re Tony Stark or something — but the point is, the lamps are made of salt crystals, grown on a fabric base like […]
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Spray-on solar windows use teeny tiny solar cells to capture energy
If the Internet has taught us anything, it is that everything is better when it is smaller. Kittens are better than cats. Cake pops are better than cakes. LEGO models of anything are pretty great, even if the full-sized version is pretty iffy (say, a meth lab). Thus: Solar panels? Good. Teeny tiny solar cells? […]
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Our coal, such a steal! Peabody Energy’s sham auction goes down
While the media focused on the healthcare decision, the federal government just sold a little piece of Wyoming to a private company for a fraction of its worth.
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These adorable kids are earning bikes by helping their community
[vimeo 43979135] The Rails to Trails Conservancy’s Earn-a-Bike program lets these Baltimore youths spend four weeks learning about bike maintenance, healthy eating, and caring for the Earth and their community — and at the end of it, they get a certificate and a bike. It’s a win all around: The kids get their own bicycles, the […]
