I teach a narrative nonfiction class at the University of Colorado; a student did an good piece on water waste through sprinkling sidewalks and soaking common common greens to bogginess.
Curious about the energy of water usage, I did some hunting around and found a reference to the kilowatt hours per acre foot of water provided…
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Earth's water may have come from comets – Light Years - CNN.com Blogs http://t.co/EN63radv via @cnn
Natural gas not quite a climate panacea, NCAR's Tom Wigley's model suggests. http://t.co/FzzXOYI
Apple recently announced its results for the three months ended June 25. More than $7 billion in net income for the quarter -- not bad. I've been thinking about the massive scale of our aggregate consumption, though, so a couple of other numbers were more interesting.
The company sold 9.25 million iPad 2's in the quarter.…
When the 2012 presidential election season rolls around and the Republicans try to blame the Democrats for the Great American Credit Default (or near-default, if we're lucky), remember:
The notion that the House bill, rejected by the Senate in a short two hours tonight (with six Republicans and both independents joining all democrats), was a good-faith…