Water and electricity

"TweetShareShareI 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 d...

Expedia caveat emptor

"\"TweetShareShareExpedia 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...

Five bucks well spent

"\"TweetShareShareThe 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...

On the Gulf Oil Spill anniversary

"\"TweetShareShareTo 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...