As Kermit used to say, “it’s not easy being green,” which is why i thought these items were pretty cool… First there’s a new Puma phone that was announced this week at MWC (the largest mobile conference in the world) and instead of trying to compete with iPhone/Android and trying to do everything it’s just [...]
Making electricity Originally uploaded by pescatello When driving this weekend down to Palm Springs, i came around a bend and saw thousands of windmills. It was an amazing site and got me thinking about our planet. Here are tons of windmills making electricity for all of us. They are reducing our need for foreign oil, [...]
I just finished Tom Friedman‘s Hot, Flat, and Crowded. It’s a good book that talks about 2 things: climate change and America’s decline. The first items is due to a number of trends: nations becoming more developed (flat) and pulling people out of poverty (crowded) which in turn requires more energy and increases production (hot). [...]
I went to fill up yesterday at this gas station in West Hollywood on the corner of Olympic and Robertson and was amazed what i saw. This place has the following: The facade was made from farm-raised renewable cedar The wall behind the station is wrapped with vines (require almost no upkeep) All the lights [...]
They should draw an equation: What level of fame do you need to achieve to keep doing what you want? Because you don’t want any more than that. if you get too famous, you have people wanting to take a picture of your butt on the beach. (Tina Fey These are quotes i read from [...]
I read an interview this morning by former Massachusetts Representative Joe Kennedy, who runs the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp., which provides discount heating oil to Americans in need in 15 states and the District of Columbia. On quote of his that stuck out for me was this: The U.S. oil industry in the last five [...]
I love this. Some high-school kid built a wooden bike. Everything is wood – even the chain. Pretty sweet (from Gizmodo)
A couple of years ago i read Bill Mckibben’s book Enough. It’s a great read. In the book he discusses what it means to be human. There are 3 subjects he focuses on in the book: genetic research, nanotechnology and robotics. In each one he explores that ever shrinking moral and spiritual boundary. Eventually, we’ll [...]
Dean posted this on his site, and i thought it was worth a re-posting. I love mass transit. I think it makes the world a better place and makes city life more vibrant and personal. There’s nothing worse than having all a city’s residents drive around in cars – or “metal coffins” (to quote Bodhi). [...]
Quick quote by Lester Brown who is the author of over 50 books and thought to be “the guru of the environmental movement.” One of the questions I am frequently asked when I am speaking in various countries is, Given the environmental problems that the world is facing, can we make it? That is, can [...]
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