Brilliant little animated #Was…
Brilliant little animated #WashPost graphic on 7 billion: http://t.co/ZwoViIfH
How much is 7 billion? – The W…
How much is 7 billion? – The Washington Post http://t.co/U4nffqYD via @washingtonpost
Nick Kristof’s very nonradical…
Nick Kristof’s very nonradical piece: Crony Capitalism Comes Home: http://t.co/9FhhQ7AK
Crazy simulation: Shielding a …
Crazy simulation: Shielding a building | iSGTW: http://t.co/kXVWW8TI via @AddThis
Water and electricity
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...
Earth’s water may have come fr…
Earth’s water may have come from comets – Light Years – CNN.com Blogs http://t.co/EN63radv via @cnn
Natural gas not quite a climat…
Natural gas not quite a climate panacea, NCAR’s Tom Wigley’s model suggests. http://t.co/FzzXOYI
Expedia caveat emptor
Expedia sounds Latin, really, so I thought I’d match it up with some other Latin words so I could share some insights, as a disgruntled customer, more widely than Expedia might prefer. Expedia, the travel web site, is to thank for my...
Five bucks well spent
The CU Center for Environmental Journalism forwarded a note with this link this morning, to a Wired.com article about how Al Gore and Push Up Press are aiming to “blow up the book.” As someone who recently wrote a book and then...
On the Gulf Oil Spill anniversary
To confirm a single statistic I wanted to share about a year after BP’s Gulf oil disaster, which killed 11 men and countless creatures and spewed an estimated 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf over 86 days, I stopped by a...