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Friday music blogging: Grizzly Bear
If you follow independent music at all, you know that the hype around the new Grizzly Bear album Veckatimest is deafening. It just came out this week and from critical reception (and the reactions of other musicians) you’d think it was the second coming of Pet Sounds. It is pretty good, though. This is one […]
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Oceans’ alarm: what the sea is trying to tell us
Recently, I read about a professor at Columbia who teaches a course about the signs of the apocalypse. With the financial collapse and threats of a swine flu pandemic in mind, he told the New Yorker he decided to create the class because “now seemed like a good time.” I don’t know if Professor Taussig’s […]
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National River Heroes announced
River Network is a crucial national organization working to build the capacity and effectiveness of grassroots activists and groups that work to improve water quality. This weekend at its annual River Rally in Baltimore, 6 new River Heroes will be named. Here’s your sneak peek: Dr. T. Allan CompFounder and Coordinator of the Appalachian Coal […]
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The future of fusion (solar) power
Replacing all of the electricity used in a typical home with photovoltaic panels is presently not cost effective–too expensive. We use too much electricity. The panels cost too much. But there is another way to look at residential solar. Installing just enough panels to offset your refrigerator and dryer can be viewed as a fancy […]
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Friday music blogging: Jason Lytle
To tell you the truth I’d like to FMB the new Wilco album again, since it is dominating my brain grape. But that would violate my self-imposed FMB rules, so here’s something new. This is from Jason Lytle, previously the singer for beloved indie stalwarts Grandaddy. That group finally threw in the towel after years […]
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Toxic waste from New York river cleanup headed to Texas
In a bit of good news for the environment, work got underway this week to clean up hazardous PCB pollution that General Electric dumped into New York’s Upper Hudson River. But there’s also some bad news — which is that the toxic waste is being sent to a landfill that sits atop the Ogallala Aquifer, […]
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Friday music blogging: Wilco again
The Wilco is coming! The Wilco is coming! Wilco’s new album, accurately titled Wilco (The Album), is now available for streaming from the band’s site. The album leaked onto download sites yesterday. Instead of freaking out and suing everyone, Wilco just put the album up on their site so all their fans could enjoy it. […]
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If it’s Yellowstone, leave it mellow-stone?
After editing Grist’s recent three-part series on poop, it’s sort of hard to stop thinking about all the bodily waste flowing inexorably out humanity’s gut and into the streams, rivers and oceans of the world. Six billion people, relieving themselves several times a day, every day … well, you get the picture. Yellowstone National Park’s […]
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Hybrid electric bike …with afterburners
In honor of national Bike to Work Week, I shot some helmet cam footage of my hybrid bike in action. Hills and cars are the bane of bikers everywhere. One problem at a time I always say.
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Reports highlight need to support clean water projects in poor countries
The failure of governments in both rich and poor countries to prioritize basic sanitation is killing thousands of children every day, according to two reports released today by WaterAid and PATH. And a third report released yesterday suggests that the global economic crisis may increase the death rate, at least in Africa. All three reports […]
