The Green Files: August 2005 Archives

The Green Files > August 31, 2005

Rally Today Against Mass Arrests of Cyclists

[Peak Oil NYC] Come out and protest all mass arrests and illegal detentions that took have taken place since the RNC, when hundreds were arrested, some while engaging in peaceful protest actions, others while simply passing by during the mass arrests. Let the Bloomberg Administration know you are outraged

Domino’s and GMOs

[Adventures in Ethical Consumerism] While I’m thinking about genetic modification (see last post), I’d like to give a mention to Domino’s Pizza. Domino’s may not usually be associated...

Posted at 08:44 PM

August 31, 2005

Rally Today Against Mass Arrests of Cyclists

Posted at 08:49 PM

Domino’s and GMOs

[Adventures in Ethical Consumerism] While I’m thinking about genetic modification (see last post), I’d like to give a mention to Domino’s Pizza. Domino’s may not usually be associated...

Posted at 08:44 PM

THIS CAR SPITS ON MT. WASHINGTON

[BrothersJudd Blog] Space Program: Looking Up (Glenn Harlan Reynolds, TCS, 8/24/05)As I noted earlier, NASA was offering prizes for space elevator research. That's still going on, but there are some new studies suggesting that space elevators may be closer to practicality than..

Posted at 08:42 PM

Alternet's Top 10 Green Schools

[Triple Pundit - An 'integrated bottom-line' approach to looking at business] Alternet has come out with a nifty piece commending 10 schools around the US as being particularily commendable for green practices. The criteria are especially interesting and are so thorough that I thought it would be worth it to quote them all right here and on the next page:

Posted at 08:39 PM

Announcing Oil CRUNCH

[Seven Generational Ruminations - In our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven gener] Announcing Oil CRUNCH Oil CRUNCH (oil-crunch.7gen.com) is a news and blog aggregation site intended to capture new discussion around the Oil Peak...

Posted at 08:28 PM

August 26, 2005

Hybrid Batteries - Li-Ion vs. NiMH

[Sustainability Zone > Home] If you read alot about hybrids, you'll notice that most of their batteries are NiMh - Nickle-metal-hydride - which, in the realm of consumer devices, are old had. Nickeld Cadmium (NiCad) were the originals - those horrible batteries with "recharge memory" that always ended up killing our families cordless phones.

Posted at 11:15 PM

Things that make you go “Hmm”¦”

[Rhode Islands Future] Things that make you go “Hmm”¦” Filed under: Environment Newly confirmed DEM Director Michael Sullivan drives a silver Corvette with the license...

Posted at 11:14 PM

A Walking Revolution

[ Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print] A friend just told me about a place called Mackinac Island, a getaway destination located in the waters between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. The island is just 8 miles in circumference, but it seems bigger to those who travel it because there are no motor vehicles allowed on the island.

Posted at 11:13 PM

National Wildlife Federation's Artic Promise

[Temple Stark.com] People with no brains or brains overridden by greed and lack of self-control support invasively corrupting the beauty of the Artic National Wildlife...

Posted at 11:11 PM

Treasure America Kaktovik Tourism Recommendations

[Triple Pundit - An 'integrated bottom-line' approach to looking at business] One of the key projects that the Treasure America Team worked on this summer is an analysis of the potential for a successful tourism-based economy in Northern Alaska, specifically the town of Kaktovik. The report (available here) suggests that there is indeed enough potential for high-value tourism to give Kaktovik a significantly higher degree of economic independance than the alternative model - continued welfare-like dependance on oil extraction proceeds.

Posted at 11:10 PM

August 25, 2005

Not the Duck!

[Kapitalismo] If these people were in charge in Ancient Egypt, we wouldn't have domesticated cats!

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Posted at 03:02 PM

Arsenic Removal

[Genius Now] While the application of this seems to be aimed at small communities in the southwest, it could have major applications all through the Rockies and in other mining regions. Arsenic contamination is a major problem with several types of mining, especially gold mining.

Posted at 03:01 PM

Car seats & passenger airbag = the SUV is today’s family car

[PrestoPunditÃ‚» Ã¢€œGovernment is instituted to protect property of every sort Ã¢€¦ This being the end of government, that alone is a j] Instapundit has a long and detailed posting on a topic I hammered several times last year. This Instapundit reader nails it: I've been saying this...

Posted at 02:59 PM

Delta Why?

[Economist's View] Fish life in the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta is declining at crisis levels, and state officials are at a loss to explain why, or what to do about it. The situation has potentially grave implications for an estimated 24 million Californians who get some or all of their water from the Rhode Island-size estuary south of Sacramento and east of San Francisco Bay...

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Posted at 02:58 PM

Tinfoil Lawsuit Of The Day

[Barking Moonbat Early Warning System] Here we go: Greenpeace, Friends Of The Earth and four US cities are suing the federal government for providing loans to overseas developers who are building power plants in other countries - they say the power plants are a major cause of global warming, which affects us here in the US - and they got a judge in San Francisco (where else?) to give them the go-ahead to file suit.

Posted at 02:57 PM

August 22, 2005

A Slow Week...

[sustainablog] With my teaching schedule now firmly in place (it changed Friday night), looks like Mondays and Wednesday will be regularly slow days throughout the semester.

Posted at 11:20 AM

Free Fuel always at arms length

[http://www.thingsaregood.com] Free Fuel always at arms length Posted by: Cam August 21st, 2005 CAT is one of the first words a child learns to speak and spell and hopefully the...

Posted at 11:18 AM

Bird Flu Hits First Big Poultry Farm in Russia

[Home @ blog.mintruth.com] Health officials in the western Siberian region of Omsk may have found the virus on a farm with up to 142,000 birds, Interfax news agency reported.

Posted at 11:15 AM

Thai workers riot in Taiwan

[CSR Asia - Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia] The workers made six requests: revoke the alcohol ban, allow them to use mobile phones, make Thai satellite TV available, revoke the token system in the dormitory [i.e., they have to use tokens, not legal tender], sack the Taiwanese managers, and pay them for doing overtime.

Posted at 11:14 AM

ENV: Recent Observations

[milkriverblog] Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Jeff Scott), Les Miserables (Roy Burney), Body Talk Dance Company (in Austin), Myles Smith & Scott Rotge (acoustic sets in Kerrville), Slam at Ego's (in Austin), Black Eagle at the Austin Powwow

Posted at 11:13 AM

August 18, 2005

Guides sought on electronics chemicals

[CSR Asia - Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia] Hansen could have a real impact here if it were to work with its new suppliers, and there is an opportunity for the company to not only start dealing with silicosis in its supply chain, but to accrue some good publicity for doing so (both in the US and China, where occupational disease is high on the agenda). The granite supply chain is a long way from attracting the kind of attention that Nike or Adidak (only kidding) has received, but it can’t be too far away.

Posted at 09:59 PM

Monarchs

[Burningbird] After all these years with trips carefully planned to Shaw and other places, without any success, I finally find my monarchs where I least expected them. Purely by accident —

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Posted at 09:57 PM

Crossing the Ecological Rubicon

[Rubicon] We may be lucky enough, those of us dwelling in los Estados Unidos de América, to survive the remaining 41 months of...

Posted at 09:53 PM

Americans play God, yet again

[NorthSpace] This is somehow totally symptomatic of the American perspective of nature. Instead of doing the hard work of looking at how modern forms of land use negatively impact the sustainability of existing threatened species, they take the quick and sexy approach of creating some sort of artificial living museum by reintroducing large mammals to North America.

Posted at 09:51 PM

Global Warming + John McCain: No Evidence; No Worries

[Arizona Watch: An Arizona politics and news blog] Joined by none other than Arizona’s Manchurian Candidate himself, John McCain (big shocker there), a group of Senators (including Hillary Clinton) have now testified that Global Warming is indeed fact and a catastrophe no less - and these great leaders mean business. I mean they did travel all the way to northern Alaska, no small feat.

Posted at 09:49 PM

Icy Greenland Turns Green

[Past Peak] The ice has melted and the glaciers have retreated hundreds of metres over the past 150 years. A ruined church on the banks of a fjord marks the remains of a Viking farming civilisation.

Posted at 09:48 PM

World's Dumbest Looking Conservative vs. The Environment

[Jason F King] You hate the French, unless they are blowing up and killing environmentalist photographers. And that boat that was blown up was on its way to protest the French testing of nuclear weapons (in Iraq we call these WMD's).

Posted at 09:46 PM

August 04, 2005

The Road to Hell is….well…a Road

[unbossed.com] Beyond the details of the Act (which I will discuss at a later date) the politics of Bush’s gutting of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule and subsequent disavowal of the opinions of literally millions of Americans, its important to understand just how very bad roads are from an ecosystem perspective and to be armed the with scientific knowledge of what roads bring to an ecosystem (It’s also vital to understand the economic benefit of Roadless Areas as well as the spiritual and social benefits to having places without roads - but thats another subject). So, what does a road do to an ecosystem?

Posted at 12:03 PM

I am worried!

[RED STAR NEWS» Thoughts, news and small talk mainly concerning China, from a berlin perspective (sorry for my poor English)] The nightmare of a new global flu epidemic makes good headlines and the media is often criticized when speculating about it. While there is a temptation to sex-up reports to attract readers and it is true that a lot of journalists take the bait it is nevertheless also true that all experts agree, that it is not a question if but when it will happen.

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Posted at 12:01 PM

EPA's Inconvenient Report

[Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch] permalink Hughes in Charge Topics: public relations | international Source: Washington Post, July 27, 2005 With little fanfare and only two senators even bothering to show up at her confirmation hearings, Bush political advisor Karen Hughes has been confirmed as U.S. undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs - the state department's top public relations job. One of the questions raised during the hearings (but avoided by Hughes) had to do with her possible role in the Valerie Plame affair. During the buildup to war in Iraq, Hughes was part of the White House Iraq Group, which coordinated strategy for selling the war to the American people. She now inherits the job previously held by Charlotte Beers, in which she is responsible for improving the way the U.S. is perceived in other countries, including the Muslim and Arab world. login or register...

Posted at 11:59 AM

The Governor General loves composting toilets

[Tasteful Future] The Treehugger article mentions that this information came to light thanks to Ian Brown from the Globe And Mail, whose article about composting toilets has unfortunately gone the route of the par-per-view. Damn us bloggers to hell, why don't ya, Brown?

Posted at 11:58 AM

Island of the Day Before

[Twisted View] This is the first book by Umberto Eco that I’ve read, and I seriously doubt what some reviews on the net said about it…if his so called ‘weakest’ work can be so brilliant, I can’t wait to read his other works.

Posted at 11:57 AM

Peace, Love And Harmony

[Sketchy Stuff by matt cox] It certainly does look quite funky, and Joss has asked that 50% of net funds raised from the sales of her wristbands be donated to Greenpeace and 50% to The Brit Trust. Both great causes;

Posted at 11:55 AM

Would You Want Greenpeace to Oversee the EPA?

[desertlightjournal.blog-city.com] Would you want the Republican party to oversee the SEC, or PETA to oversee the FDA? Of course not. These are activist organizations with an obvious...

Posted at 11:53 AM

August 02, 2005

Big brother is watching you

[The Political Forecast--Online Magazine] This is fucking incredible. From today's New York Times: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected at least 3,500 pages of internal documents...

Posted at 12:38 PM

Butterfly Wings Cause Tornadoes

[Tales of the Opiated Sherpa] My MP3 player has moved out of the 'Loser Anthems, B-Sides, and Rarities' and into 'The Audio of Being.' Fantastic! Good ol' MGB!

Posted at 12:37 PM

FBI Monitoring Activist Groups

[SpeakSpeak News] has in its files 1,173 pages of internal documents on the American Civil Liberties Union, the leading critic of the Bush administration’s antiterrorism policies, and 2,383 pages on Greenpeace, an environmental group that has led acts of civil disobedience in protest over the administration’s policies, the Justice Department disclosed in a court filing this month in a federal court in Washington.

Posted at 12:09 PM

Greenpeace Get Down and Dirty

[The Huge Entity] Recent talk of climate change and environmental policy can seem dry at times. It's amazing to see how a group of activists, 30 odd years into their existence, can utilise the 'free market' and the global media network to put across a message that everyone really should have tattooed on their foreheads by now.

Posted at 12:07 PM

Doing My Bit

[Sketchy Stuff by matt cox] Very few people know this, but I'm very much up for being green - and doing my bit to help save the environment... and that's why I donate around £4 per month to Friends Of The Earth.

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Posted at 12:05 PM

The Green Files > August 31, 2005

Rally Today Against Mass Arrests of Cyclists

Domino’s and GMOs

August 31, 2005

Rally Today Against Mass Arrests of Cyclists

Domino’s and GMOs

THIS CAR SPITS ON MT. WASHINGTON

Alternet's Top 10 Green Schools

Announcing Oil CRUNCH

August 26, 2005

Hybrid Batteries - Li-Ion vs. NiMH

Things that make you go “Hmm”¦”

A Walking Revolution

National Wildlife Federation's Artic Promise

Treasure America Kaktovik Tourism Recommendations

August 25, 2005

Not the Duck!

Arsenic Removal

Car seats & passenger airbag = the SUV is today’s family car

Delta Why?

Tinfoil Lawsuit Of The Day

August 22, 2005

A Slow Week...

Free Fuel always at arms length

Bird Flu Hits First Big Poultry Farm in Russia

Thai workers riot in Taiwan

ENV: Recent Observations

August 18, 2005

Guides sought on electronics chemicals

Monarchs

Crossing the Ecological Rubicon

Americans play God, yet again

Global Warming + John McCain: No Evidence; No Worries

Icy Greenland Turns Green

World's Dumbest Looking Conservative vs. The Environment

August 04, 2005

The Road to Hell is….well…a Road

I am worried!

EPA's Inconvenient Report

The Governor General loves composting toilets

Island of the Day Before

Peace, Love And Harmony

Would You Want Greenpeace to Oversee the EPA?

August 02, 2005

Big brother is watching you

Butterfly Wings Cause Tornadoes

FBI Monitoring Activist Groups

Greenpeace Get Down and Dirty

Doing My Bit

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