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Conservation International chats with Stone Gossard
Earlier today, Conservation International hosted a live chat with Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard. I would be blogging it just in time for y'all to send in your own questions, if it weren't for that pesky EST after the 1 p.m. (Gah!) So instead, I offer the transcript from the not-so-live-anymore chat.
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Jason Wentworth, eco-friendly laundromat owner, answers questions
Jason Wentworth. What work do you do? I am the owner, along with my wife Sandrine, of the Washboard Eco Laundry in Portland, Maine. How does it relate to the environment? We have attempted to create a new model for the coin-laundry industry by designing our business around the goal of minimizing the environmental impact […]
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Pardon Me Boys, Is That the Chattanooga Cough-Cough?
Add diesel locomotives to the list of things killing you Recently, researchers discovered they’d been a little off in their estimates of how much smog-forming pollution diesel locomotives generate. How off? Turns out by 2030 the trains will be producing about twice what was previously estimated — 800,000 tons of nitrogen oxide and 25,000 tons […]
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Won’t You Be My Labor?
Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage Organic farmers are desperately struggling to find workers, caught between rising demand and an ever-more-severe labor shortage. More than half of the 1.8 million farmworkers in the U.S. are here illegally, and increased border patrols have reduced the number of immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Service-sector jobs […]
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Switch Getters
Industries pull the switch on mercury switches The steel and auto industries have agreed to pay $2 million each to remove mercury-containing light switches from millions of scrapyard-bound vehicles. The deal will reduce U.S. annual mercury pollution by at least 5 percent over the next 15 years, according to U.S. EPA chief Stephen Johnson. Bully […]
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Deliver an Inconvenient Truth
In this great Rolling Stone interview last month, Al Gore said that he plans to train 1,000 volunteers to deliver the Inconvenient Truth slide show across the country. I immediately began scouring the web looking for information on how to apply, but found nothing. Finally, I called Al and Tipper's office in Tennessee and they gave me an email address to which I summarily sent a resume and cover letter. Yesterday I received a reply.
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Dymaxion vehicle
A car that seats eleven, reaches 120 mph, can turn on a dime, and gets 30 miles per gallon.
In 1933.
Now that's damn interesting.
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‘Tis the Season (for cold soups and cold showers …)
"It's so hot that the terrorist alert level has been raised to Gazpacho!" -- David Letterman
Several years ago one of my male friends came up to me at a party, leaned down, and whispered in my ear: "You know, sometimes, late at night, I lie awake and think about your ... gazpacho." This particular scenario might have been slightly less annoying if it hadn't happened so many times already.
There seems to be a very strong soup-sex connection in men's souls. My father had a habit of saying mortifying things at the dinner table whenever a boyfriend of mine was visiting from college, and one night he announced to all present, "You know you're getting old when you lie down at night and find yourself thinking about soup instead of sex."
My mom looked furious (you could always tell when she was furious because her lips pressed together to make a completely flat line), but it was hard to tell exactly why she was upset. There were so many possibilities:
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Fear preview
I'm busy working on a post, or perhaps a series of posts, on fear and why it is useless for environmentalists. But in my reading around, I came across this delicious bit from John Rogers that I just had to share:
