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Fight for your right to dry
August 30, 2007
First is was the slow food movement. Next it was slow fashion and slow furniture. Could the glamorous world of laundry be the next slow revolution? As people look for ways to decrease their energy consumption, clotheslines are steadily returning to the American landscape. However, this return to one of the original forms of solar power is being hampered (gotta love laundry puns) in some places. Some local municipalities and many homeowners associations prohibit the use of outdoor clotheslines citing aesthetic and property value concerns.
Treehugger is sponsoring a clothesline photo contest.
and Project Laundry List is expanding to encourage local chapters. I hope someone starts one in Austin, because I'd love to hang out (ar ar) with the clothespin set, but I just don't have the time to head a chapter myself.
Tyger
May 24, 2006
Ms. Dahlia hooked me up with this video this fine morning. I can hear the birds singing outside, and if I close my eyes, I can imagine it coming true.
Slowing Decline requires cross-discipline convergence
March 21, 2006
This article points out something that came up during a lecture I attended recently. The speaker, a marine ecologist, concluded his grim forecast by basically saying that academia is too focused and specialized, and that we aren't going to solve any of these problems until all of the areas of specialization work together. For instance, economists need to learn to take the biological impact of fiscal policies into account.
It's something I, as a reg'lar old uneducated joe never really took into account, but it's so true. I recently had an experience with a data nerd that I know where someone pointed out the practical applications of his data with regard to the education system. He was astonished. He didn't realize that all that data he loves so much actually had a real-world application.
You see what I'm saying? And maybe this ties in, also, with the whole Wisdom of Crowds theory. Those of us who are less specialized can be here on the ground, pulling the data geeks, the intellectual snobs, and the pie-in-the-skyers back down to the here and now. Of course, that requires that we finally gain the capacity to start actually, you know, working together rather than in fragmented social groups based on arbitrary characteristics.
So much evolving to do...so little time!
Yet another hit against the environment
July 14, 2004
The Forest or the Trees - Center for American Progress
You'd think by now the element of surprise would have vanished. For three years running the Bush Administration has issued a steady stream of regulatory missives quietly dismantling federal protections for our air, land and water. One week it rewrote clean water laws so that 20 million acres of wetlands were left unprotected. Another week it decided thousands of gallons of highly radioactive waste slated for cleanup were better left in the ground. Next it moved to exempt oil and gas industries from following laws to protect surface and drinking water. It ordered thousands of acres of sensitive land opened for energy development even while slashing energy efficiency programs. And it proposed rules to allow more toxic mercury into the environment. So bad have been hundreds of environmental rollbacks issued to date, that the Environmental Protection Agency's two most senior enforcement officials quit at least partly in reaction to the onslaught.
Well Said!
July 14, 2004
Greens For Nader: Green Leader's Statement: Put Nader on the Ballot
Stuff is running out. Not just oil either. There are many strategic minerals needed to fuel our overblown economy that do not come from within our borders. Stuff our government and others will be willing to go to war for. Not only is Afghanistan a good route to control for a pipeline from the Caspian Sea oil fields to Haliburton’s billion dollar port facility in Pakistan, but its loaded with natural gas and strategic minerals. Kosovo, it turns out, is loaded with metalloids, rare elements essential to the computer and electronics industry. And the Republic of the Congo, now there’s a big prize just ripe for the taking! No matter who is elected in November, do not be surprised to see increasing US military involvement in Africa.We do not have the time to wait for the Democrats and Republicans in some uncharacteristic gesture of generosity to bestow upon us PR or IRV or STV or any of the other nostrums promoted by Greens who just want to get their foot in the door. Many Greens seem to think we have 20 or 30 years to slowly build the party from the grassroots and get our act together to start electing people in any sizeable numbers to state and national government. We need to have a credible party and platform and candidates with name recognition and campaign experience to step in at a moments notice when the tide begins to turn in the very near future.
Can we just pretend I didn't read that?
February 23, 2004
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
An imminent scenario of catastrophic climate change is 'plausible and would challenge United States national security in ways that should be considered immediately', they conclude. As early as next year widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions. Last week the Bush administration came under heavy fire from a large body of respected scientists who claimed that it cherry-picked science to suit its policy agenda and suppressed studies that it did not like. Jeremy Symons, a former whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said that suppression of the report for four months was a further example of the White House trying to bury the threat of climate change.