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Sports Illustrated hearts us
Sports Illustrated loves us! Cue sporty studs and studettes! Bring on the swimsuit babes! We’re all green now! Glad to see SI is On the Ball. And you know how we feel about balls.
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Grim
The folks at Spiegel got an advance look at the IPCC’s Working Group II report, due out next month. (WGII is the one on "impacts, adaptation and vulnerability." WGIII is on mitigation). The news is all ice cream and ponies! Except not. One main finding is that global warming is already having profound effects on […]
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Pay No Attention to That Protocol Behind the Curtain
Twenty-year-old Montreal Protocol has helped combat global warming It kind of sucks to be the Montreal Protocol. Not only do you lack the name recognition of your compatriot from Kyoto, you also go widely unrecognized for the work you’ve done to fight global warming. The phaseout of chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons under the Montreal treaty — […]
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All the cool kids are using BerkShares
Here in southwest Mass. there's a new local currency issued by a nonprofit that's been making a splash with recent stories in the NY Times and on ABC national news. There are 230 businesses accepting BerkShares already, and there are 140,000 in regular circulation. -
Lessons on getting the numbers straight
What's a percent or two? Or three? Not much, sometimes. But a lot when we're talking about carbon dioxide emissions that are throwing earth's climate out of whack. And quite a lot when effort is going into ranking emission sources to help prioritize our responses to the climate crisis.
These thoughts are occasioned by a scoop in the Guardian (U.K.) reporting that world shipping -- essentially, freighters and tankers moving goods and raw materials -- accounts for "up to 5% of the global total" of carbon emissions. "CO2 output from shipping [is] twice as much as airlines," shouts the Guardian headline, in light of the 2-3 percent share of emissions associated with air travel.
Goodness, a dozen eco-blogs seemed to mutter in unison, have we been barking up the wrong tree? Were we wrong to hammer globe-girdling celebs and fret over cheap air fares, instead of targeting ships carrying shirts from Bangkok to Berlin and plasma screens from Seoul to San Francisco?
Well, not so fast.
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I thought ‘blue’ was the color we were going for …
I'm convinced publications do these things just to drive traffic. So, doing my part for Gristmill, here's a piggypost* of Treehugger's How to Green Your Sex Life.
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A must-read
Let me most enthusiastically recommend this article in American Scientist on plug-in hybrids. It’s by an engineer named Andrew Frank that’s been working on hybrids in various incarnations since the early ’70s. You green techno-geeks will love it. It’s one of the most accessible pieces I’ve ever read on the history, technology, and challenges of […]
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It’s for more than just leprechauns
No, not the nasty March 17th green beer, nor the greenwashed Budweiser variety: I mean Green Drinks, the green social hour phenomenon now in 197 cities worldwide...
