Wanna go green? Witold Rybczynski says you gotta get back to the concrete jungle:
Architectural journals and the Sunday supplements tout newfangled houses tricked out with rainwater-collection systems, solar arrays, and bamboo flooring. Yet any detached single-family house has more external walls and roof—and hence more heating loads in winter and cooling loads in summer—than a […]
Entries Tagged as 'Environment'
Green cities
September 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Environment
The end is nigh
August 6th, 2009 · No Comments
In five parts, actually.
Slate.com been running a veddy interesting series this week on how the U.S. might come to an end, if the U.S. were to come to an end. Part 1 was environmental catastrophe; yesterday’s bit was secession; today’s bit is totalitarian rule. What particularly piqued my interest was Josh Levin’s invocation of American […]
Tags: Fascism · Wingers · Environment
The end of fish
June 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Yeesh. And here I just had some bisque from Market for lunch:
Professor Boris Worm of Dalhousie University published a detailed study in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Nature saying that at the current rate, all global fish populations will have collapsed by 2048. He says: “This isn’t some horror scenario, it’s a real possibility. It’s not […]
Tags: Environment
Three Mile blah blah
October 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Via Atrios, Steve Benen over at the Washington Monthly comments on McCain’s shortcut approach when it comes to nuclear power:
“You know, the other night in the debate with Senator Obama, I said his eloquence is admirable, but pay attention to his words,” McCain said. “We talk about offshore drilling and he said he would quote, […]
Tags: Nuclear Energy · Environment
At any cost
June 17th, 2008 · No Comments
You know, we might as well do this, because ultimately we’re going to do it anyway:
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist tells Buzz that he loves Sen. John McCain’s idea to lift the federal moratorium on off-shore drilling and let individual states decide whether to allow oil and gas exploration. He also said he wouldn’t rule out […]
Tags: Oil · Environment
As goes Wal-Mart…
January 24th, 2008 · No Comments
…so goes the nation, often. Occasionally a bad thing; this, on the other hand, might actually help move the ball down the field a bit:
In a lofty address that at times resembled a campaign speech, the chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores, H. Lee Scott Jr., said that “we live in a time when people are […]
Tags: Wal-Mart · Environment
Bringing it all back home
October 26th, 2007 · No Comments
The news of the fires was mesmerizing most of the week, I wrote about it for this week’s print edition, but there were other things, at first glance not related but, the longer you looked, the more you realized they were of a piece.
Tags: Energy · War in Iran · Oil · War in Iraq · Environment
Interesting times
October 12th, 2007 · No Comments
Al Gore wins (or co-wins) the Nobel Peace Prize and somehow, Drudge isn’t making fun of him. That’ll last, like, five minutes or so.
The release from the Nobel committee, linked on Drudge, is interesting:
Indications of changes in the earth’s future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in […]
Tags: War in Iran · War on terror · War in Iraq · Environment
The idea of enough
July 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Because I play guitar and often - or at least, too often for my wife - buy guitar-related things, I get several catalogs from music retailers. Basically, you buy one thing from these companies and you’re on their mailing list forever, as they hope you buy some more.
Tags: Oil · climate change · Environment
No one knows who they were, or what they were doing
July 7th, 2007 · No Comments
Spinal Tap reunites for Live Earth, plays new single “Warmer than Hell,” detailing the Devil’s trip to Britain where he remarks how sweltering it is due to global warming.
Tags: Rock and roll · Environment





