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zero waste, or, what happened to the pigs?

A post by Phil Sparks on Mr. McIntyre’s Environmental Science blog,  a response to this article about Nantucket’s trash, led to some interesting reading this morning. In the article I read this on food waste and the benefits of composting. When apple cores, stale bread and last week’s leftovers go to landfills, they do not […]

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Severen Suzuki

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0[/youtube] I do not believe I have anything to add…

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post oil

As I put my long johns on this morning it occurred to me that expecting every room to be warm all the time is a luxury that until recently, wasn’t something that anyone expected ever. My house is a little chilly this morning – there’s a frost and I have the heat set at 65 […]

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An open letter to Greyhound

To the Greyhound company: I have been unable to get schedule information about buses going from White River Junction Vermont to Boston Massachusetts from your website. It is obvious to me that the website was launched with no usability testing whatsoever since it is unusable unless you want to buy a ticket online. I don’t. […]

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The first time I saw Miami Beach

I’ve been thinking about this since I commented on Mr. MacIntyre’s Wildlife Biology blog, noting that the though small changes are easy to make, big changes, changes that really make a difference, are not as easy to do. I felt as though I had left an impression that small changes don’t make a difference at all and […]

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How to get educated

As I was driving home listening to a news show on VPR I heard a very serious young woman who had been investigating conditions for Iraqi police recruits describe conditions in the recruit barracks as : “debaucherous”. This is the sort of thing that drives me simply insane. (That and the numerous gaffes in the […]

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