Climate change and you

April 21, 2008

Yesterday's NYT maganize was a Green living issue. Most notable was a piece by Michael Pollan - The way we live, why bother?

If you do bother, you will set an example for other people. If enough other people bother, each one influencing yet another in a chain reaction of behavioral change, markets for all manner of green products and alternative technologies will prosper and expand. (Just look at the market for hybrid cars.) Consciousness will be raised, perhaps even changed: new moral imperatives and new taboos might take root in the culture. Driving an S.U.V. or eating a 24-ounce steak or illuminating your McMansion like an airport runway at night might come to be regarded as outrages to human conscience. Not having things might become cooler than having them. And those who did change the way they live would acquire the moral standing to demand changes in behavior from others — from other people, other corporations, even other countries.

Elsewhere

  • Frequent, small doses of caffeine works better than one single large dose.


    April 22, 2008

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  • Why airline mergers is not a long-term solution
    April 21, 2008


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  • Noah's Ark is here
    February 29, 2008


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  • You suck at photoshop
    January 28, 2008


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  • Planet earth clip show - Silly but amusing nonetheless.
    January 27, 2008


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  • 360 degree motion video of NYC (I think). Very cool.


    December 4, 2007

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  • How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook
    For every long-lost chum who reaches out to me on Facebook, there's a guy who beat me up on a weekly basis through the whole seventh grade but now wants to be my buddy; or the crazy person who was fun in college but is now kind of sad; or the creepy ex-co-worker who I'd cross the street to avoid but who now wants to know, "Am I your friend?" yes or no, this instant, please.


    November 27, 2007

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  • 12 to 18 year old single malt Scotch helps me [deal with the anxiety around the economic and global clusterfuck]

    I don't mean this flippantly. Every bottle of good Scotch is an optimistic vote for the future of mankind, and a testament to the wisdom of the people that made it, and kept it for us, against the day our cold bones and weakened hearts would most need it.

    Nobody lays down good whisky for the future, unless they believe in tomorrow, and in those of us who'll need it, when it's golden ripe and ready. Those what make it often don't get to enjoy it, but probably enjoyed some layed down for them, when they didn't know enough to lay any down, themselves.

    So, it comes round, and it goes round, and warms our hearts and loosens our tongues when most we need it. Courage in a bottle, and hope of better days, from those who've gone before.

    - A heartwarming comment by paulsc over at Askme


    November 27, 2007

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  • Matt Stuart is a photographer who takes unusual and amusing pictures of people doing everyday stuff.
    November 23, 2007


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  • The zagat history of my last relationship
    November 21, 2007


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