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Freakonomics authors suggest investigating a geoengineering solution to global warming. (The post is apparently written in response to environmentalists … gulfstream/2652
Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air: very educational and informative (free) book by David MacKay (Cambridge professor of physics) on how we can reduce … gulfstream/2611
Chart of common household activities and common foods in low water use/high water use pairs. e.g. coffee–37 gallons, tea–9 gallons. Eating chicken … gulfstream/2601
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really expensive (but supposedly environmentally sound) shoes
Rolling Stone : Can Dr. Evil Save The World?
interesting wedge issue: why not pump a whole heap of volcano-emission-like particles into the atmosphere? are you confident in your climate models or not?
Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist Magazine
How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It.
Aircraft emissions | The sky's the limit | Economist.com
Climate Change Deniers vs The Consensus | Information Is Beautiful
SourceMap - Open Supply Chains
"Sourcemap is an open source project dedicated to tracking, documenting, and mapping where all of the components for our everyday goods come from."
Top 10 green living myths | Duncan Clark | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Well, yes: "unless you currently drive a lot in a highly inefficient car, it will often be greener to stick to your existing vehicle than to sell it and buy a new one."
Congress May Probe Leaked Global Warming E-Mails - Taking Liberties - CBS News
More detail and quotes from the leaked emails, as well as some discussion about the quality of the climate-modelling software.
Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt, Not Emissions - NYTimes.com
Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge - NYTimes.com
Plastic bag obsession is carrier for environmental ignorance | Environment | guardian.co.uk
An actual published article to back up my feeling that not using plastic bags isn't actually much help to the environment. "So why this fetishisation? Because dealing with plastic bags is easy. Easy for the government, easy for retailers, easy for shoppers. It threatens no one, makes money for the shops (if they charge for their bags) and ensures that everyone feels better about themselves, while continuing to trash the biosphere just as we did before."
David MacKay: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air: Contents
great book on the numbers behind climate change, and what we can do to get energy in the future.
Organic food delivery service - Abel & Cole
organic food delivery store. their faq has an intriguing "do you sell food from israel?" entry--they do, and defend the practice, but you can opt out of israeli produce if you like.
Op-Ed Contributor - Wine in a Box Protects the Environment and Saves You Money - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
on boxed wine: "Boxed wine may be short on charm, but it is long on practicality."
Energy Monitor comparison chart from Electricity-Monitor.com
comparison chart of the wattson, owl, other electricity meters
efergy - home energy saving meter
real-time power/energy monitor
FEATURES AND BENEFITS - DIY KYOTO
wattson - two part wireless electricity meter - attach one part to your meter, the other bit will tell you how much power you're using
How does one gallon produce 19 pounds of carbon dioxide? - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine
engines convert petrol/gas into gas at a rate of about 1:3 by mass
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Climate scepticism: The top 10
How NASA Screwed Up (And Four Ways to Fix It)
Monbiot.com » The New Friends of the Earth?
American Scientist Online - Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island
easter island inhabited by humans much later than previously thought, and deforested by rats??