Posted in Bush, Environment, History, Lies, News, Politics, War on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
This story has been well reported, so I don’t expect anyone reading this will be surprised, but I thought it might bring about a good topic for discussion and that is “is this guy psychotic or what?”
Bush has said many times that history will vindicate him as a president. I just have to wonder how [...]
Posted in Environment, News, Random, Washington on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
In the winter we often drive through the town of Enumclaw on the way to Crystal Mountain ski resort. It’s a small humble town where some parts look more affluent than others. The town gained some notoriety a few years back due to a rather embarrassing story that I won’t go into here.
But Enumclaw is [...]
Posted in Environment, News, Politics, Republican, Transportation on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The price of gas is a topic that has consumed Americans for the last year. Now Republican senator John Warner has made a surprising suggestion: reduce the national speed limit to stretch gas mileage. It sounds perfectly reasonable. In fact, there is a precedent. In 1974 faced with an energy crisis Congress decided to create [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Environment, Film, Politics on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I remember being a kid and learning about “bad” things in school like the effects of smoking and drugs. Later we would learn about recycling and re-using. I remember Arbor Day when we would plant a new tree. I suppose the idea was to encourage children to practice good habits hoping that some of those [...]
Posted in Animals, Art, Environment, Photography, Seattle on June 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World is an exhibition at the Burke Museum in Seattle of Steven Kazlowski’s amazing photography.
The polar bear — a charismatic icon in the struggle against climate change — faces a precarious future along with other ice dependent species as its Arctic habitat rapidly continues to [...]
Posted in America, Environment, HowTo, Humor, Money, Politics, Random, Seattle, Transportation, Travel on June 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Oh the joys of Amtrak in America. Amtrak is the company which manages U.S. rail travel. It’s completely underfunded and never gets any of the lobby money that air travel companies get. Trips on Amtrak are often costlier and are exponentially longer than car trips. Take for instance a drive from Seattle to Portland which [...]
Posted in Bush, Environment, Lies, Media, News, Politics, Republican on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »
One has to give credit to the BBC for the juxtaposition of this photo and headline. The article is here.
Posted in Environment, News, Politics on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In this article about Naples shipping some of its waste to Germany, I was struck by Hamburg’s waste management. This matches the experience from a friend of mine who lived in Stuttgart for a time. She told me people were given containers for recycling and garbage, but the garbage container was the same size of [...]
Posted in Environment, News, Politics, Random, Seattle on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
So the mayor of Seattle, Greg Nickels, wants people to stop buying bottled water.
“Americans used 60 billion pint bottles of water last year,” said Nickels. “That required 1 million tons of plastic and generated 2.5 million tons of greenhouse gases.”
“What flows from our taps is some of the finest-tasting, purest-source water in the world,” he [...]
Posted in Environment, Humor, Photography, Random, Seattle on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yes, that’s a highway in between this sign and the waterfront.
Posted in Bush, Environment, News, Politics, Washington on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ll give him credit where it’s due. Nice work. I’m crossing my fingers that he won’t be announcing a snowmobile theme park in the wilderness area tomorrow. Click here for more pictures.
Nearly six years after it was first introduced, a bill to create a Wild Sky Wilderness northeast of Seattle has become law.
President Bush [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Decision 2008, Environment, Hillary Clinton, McCain, News, Oil, Politics, Transportation on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Can there be anything more flagrant than offering to suspend the gas tax for the purpose of getting elected president of the United States?
Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain are pushing for a gas-tax holiday, but Sen. Barack Obama says the plan is a quick fix that would do more harm than good.
McCain, the presumptive [...]
Posted in Coffee, Environment, Food, Humor, Seattle, Technology, Washington on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is why I have a coffee category.
If you prefer your coffee fresh-brewed when hiking, Spokane-based GSI offers a number of coffee solutions. If you want a steaming mug of Starbucks Yukon blend during your hike, toss your favorite lightweight stove into your pack, then add a GSI Lexan Javapress — a French-press style coffee [...]
Posted in Environment, News, Science on April 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Green-minded consumers beware. Free electronics collection events touted as planet friendly aren’t always as ecologically sound as they seem, says a watchdog group focused on preventing the export of dangerous e-waste.
The trouble is it’s nearly impossible for well-meaning consumers to know what happens to the pollutants in the products they’re dropping off. The products can [...]
Posted in Environment, Humor, News, Random, Seattle on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s an interesting story about a guy who built a treehouse in Seattle on public property. The pictures are worth a look.
Posted in Animals, Environment, Food, Random, Washington on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I love trout. Trout and butter and almonds, trout grilled on the barbecue with herbs inside. After I read this nausea inducing article on maggots being the answer to the trout farm, I swore off farmed trout:
University of Idaho and Idaho State University scientists are working on a new maggot-based feed capable of fattening rainbows [...]
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, Environment, Lies, News, Oil, Science on February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When Bush pushed Ethanol for the global warming that he doesn’t believe in, you knew something was up. Ethanol is made from corn, and agro-business is a immensely profitable industry.
It seems a study has been published that argues Ethanol may actually increase global warming:
The researchers said that past studies showing the benefits of ethanol in [...]
Posted in Animals, Environment, Humor, Random, Science on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
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Posted in Environment, News, Science, Washington on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
This article brings us yet another way our species is negatively impacting the planet. While the earth will most likely eventually recover from whatever we throw at it, we will not. We can’t grow food if we have no top soil in which to grow it.
“Globally, it’s clear we are eroding soils at a rate [...]
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