Aug 21, 2008 6:15 PM
Good Musk Ox! Bad Musk Ox?
Grazing musk oxen and caribou in the arctic are good for the environment. Unless they’re bad for it…
So we all know that the variables shaping the global warming debate are complex, nuanced and sometimes confusing. Right? We take this as matter-of-course, and accept that debate and confusion are part of the discovery process. Correct?
But shouldn’t we be able to discern whether grass chewing Musk Oxen in the arctic are either good or bad for global warming? Does everything have to be confusing? Apparently, yes.
Check out these two headlines -
Aug 17, 2008 7:22 PM
Boston, Newton, Cambridge: Massachusetts's Homes of the Hybrids
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has recently released a list of hybrid cars and SUVs that have been registered in each individual town during 2008. The list provides a report on the number of hybrid vehicles (excluding trucks) registered in each town, the total number of cars registered, and the percentage of which are hybrids.
According to the list, Boston takes first place with 1,615 registered hybrids, Cambridge second with 705, and Newton in third with 813.
Aug 15, 2008 3:25 PM
Olympic Village Awarded for Green Design
Henry Paulson, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, recently honored Chinese officials with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold award for the environmentally conscious Olympic Village.
The Olympic Village, which presently houses 16,000 athletes in 42 six to nine story buildings, is the first residential neighborhood in Beijing to be awarded LEED status. The village incorporates such sustainable design features as solar power and solar thermal power for lighting and hot water, various water reuse systems, custom heating and cooling systems, and rainwater collection.
Aug 14, 2008 1:12 PM
Shaving Off Sustainability
Call it one of those odd little things that gets my blood pressure up. Walking down the platform at South Station this morning, I saw a Gillette ad for their new Mac 3 "disposable."
Maybe you're thinking the same thing I was: "Huh? I thought Mach 3 razors were already disposable!" Well, yes...but not the handle! Normally you dispose of the razor after a week (or a month in my case; I like cutting my face into ribbons) but keep the handle and affix a new cartridge. Now you can just pitch the whole thing, and doubtlessly add more volume to landfills in the process.
Aug 12, 2008 5:16 PM
Zebra Chips: Now with Bits of Real Zebra!
So you know they're good!
Way back in 1994 potato chip companies started seeing a rather strange pattern in many of their chips from potato farms in Mexico. When cooked, some chips developed nasty brown striations. The striping syndrome was quickly deemed “Zebra Chip” disease, and has since spread to Texas, parts of California and Arizona, and even as far as Guatemala and New Zealand. Feeling the striped horse was unfairly blamed for the disease, Zebra advocacy groups considered defamation complaints, but figured any buzz is good buzz so they backed off.
