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A SoCal dealer can’t get rid of his rows and rows of Hummers
From Tim Iacono, some delightful on-the-ground investigative blogging about a Hummer dealership in Southern California trying to hide massive amounts of overstock.
Tim and his pals got a tip about a nervous dealer who "had begun storing his Hummer inventory at an undisclosed location, far from the dealer showroom so as not to spook jittery, prospective buyers with the mounting number of unsold H2s and H3s." They started snooping around and ended up snapping photos of row upon row upon row of unwanted gas-guzzling Dweeb-mobiles.
Quite amusing.
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Sun and Google go green by accident
Joel Makower brings word of Sun Microsystems' splashy introduction of a new energy-efficient processor that it will debut in servers by the end of the year, helping reduce the enormous power load it takes to run ginormous server farms like, say, Amazon.com's.
This is very cool stuff, and long overdue -- most people aren't aware of just how energy-intensive computer technology is. I hope Sun gets some good PR points.
But more interesting to me on a personal level is Sun's "thin-client" strategy.
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A Slow-Down Dirty Shame
World’s forests disappearing slightly less quickly Good news! The world’s forests are being destroyed at a slightly-slower-if-still-alarming rate. That’s the chipper assessment of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s new report on global deforestation. It compared trends in 229 countries over the past five years with data from the 1990s, finding that on average, just […]
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Fo Shizzle, My Grizzle
Yellowstone grizzlies no longer threatened, Bush administration argues Hey, Boo-Boo, Yellowstone’s grizzlies may be removed from the endangered species list if the Interior Department has its way. In a proposal unveiled today, the Bush administration notes that bear numbers in the park have tripled to more than 600 over the past 30-odd years of listing, […]
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Carnival of the Green
I was remiss in not linking to the first one of these, so: Don't miss the second Carnival of the Green.
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Letting the market decide
This op-ed by Charles Krauthammer fairly captures the current conventional wisdom on energy policy: demand is rising, supply is tight, and so the answer is to decrease demand (conserve) and increase supply (drill in the Arctic Refuge and off shore).
The really amusing part is that the conceit -- nay, the headline -- is "let the market decide energy policy."
But then there's this:
We have a unique but fleeting opportunity to permanently depress demand by locking in higher gasoline prices. Put a floor at $3. Every penny that the price goes under $3 should be recaptured in a federal gas tax so that Americans pay $3 at the pump no matter how low the world price goes.
Um. Wouldn't a stiff gas tax kind of influence the market's decisions about energy policy?
And there's this:
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Rick Durden, green pilot and head of LightHawk, answers questionsRick Durden, green pilot and head o
Rick Durden. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I have recently become the executive director of LightHawk, sometimes referred to as “the wings of conservation.” What does your organization do? We work with other environmental and conservation organizations to provide free flights over environmentally threatened areas in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Central America. […]
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Toxic Femmes
SoCal sewage is feminizing bottom fish Like many of their land-bound counterparts, male fish off the coast of Southern California are developing female sex characteristics. In the fishes’ case it goes beyond metrosexuality — we’re talking ovary tissue in the testes (ew). Researchers strongly suspect sewage laced with human-made hormone-disrupting chemicals. Two separate studies, one […]
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Mercury Revising
New mercury plan from local regulators would be stronger than Bush’s Prompted by concerns that the Bush administration’s plan to battle mercury pollution wouldn’t do much to, uh, battle mercury pollution, two groups of state and local air-quality regulators (bet the parties rock at that convention) have crafted a stronger plan — and they say […]
