Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution John Metcalfe, grist.org Click to embiggen.Where on Earth are you most likely to die early from air pollution? NASA provides the answer with this mortally serious view of the planet, and it is: lots of places.Like tar stains on a healthy lung, the sickly yellow … Continue reading Places with the most lethal air quality
Vikings have the most fun: U.N. says Danes are the happiest people on the planet Greg Hanscom, grist.org ShutterstockThey don’t always look happy, but really they are.Their days of seafaring plunder are over, but Danes are still the happiest people in the world, says the U.N. How do they do it? With sustainable development, a … Continue reading Vikings have more fun: UN reports Danes are happiest people
What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers? fastcoexist.com We give hurricanes such friendly, blameless names. What did Sandy ever do to anyone? An advocacy group wants to name disastrous storms after the politicians who are blocking effective climate policy. Spare a thought for people named Ivan,… http://flip.it/SKXvC Related articles What If We … Continue reading What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?
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Americans’ main complaint about water is that it tastes too much like water Sarah Miller, grist.org Robynne BlumeDo you feel like your doctors and your more annoying friends are always telling you to drink more water? Well, they’re just trying to help. Water is so important for your health! Sadly, water tastes like, well, water. … Continue reading Americans don’t like the taste of water
For the price of the Iraq War, the U.S. could have gotten halfway to a renewable power system David Roberts, grist.org Discussions of how to respond to climate change often involve Very Large Numbers — the needed investments to transition to a fully renewable energy system are in the hundreds of billions. The brain sort … Continue reading For the price of the Iraq war we could have built a renewable energy system
Oil-Eating Bacteria Fixed The Deepwater Horizon Disaster, But They May Not Help Next Time BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com It turned out the Gulf was filled with bacteria that loved to chow down on exactly what was spilling out of BP’s destroyed oil well. How fortuitous! But hoping that hungry bacteria will help in the next … Continue reading Oil eating bacteria fixed the Gulf disaster but might not save you next time
In the Hands of God: Thoughts on Rural Research core77.com By Jan ChipchaseThis article summarises the issues in conducting corporate ethnographic research in rural locations covering logistics to research dynamics. Rural communities are far from homogeneous.Over the last decade I’ve seen an… RT @core77: GoogleMaps, Dirt Roads + Drinking Water. @JanChip shares thoughts on logistics … Continue reading Thoughts on rural research
The North Face Launches “Clothes the Loop” Garment-Recycling Program ecouterre.com RECOMMENDED FOR YOU: Recycle Your Marks & Spencer Clothing at Oxfam, Get £5 Off Purchase The North Face Launches “Clothes the Loop” Garment-Recycling Program by Jasmin Malik Chua, 02/21/13 The North F … RT @inhabitat: The North Face wants to reward you for recycling your … Continue reading North Face launches garment recycling program
10 Year-Old Boy Launches His Own Recycling Business, Donates 25% Of Profits To Homeless Children Lana Winter, inhabitots.com “It’s so easy to do nothing. But it’s really good to do something!” This is the philosophy of wise beyond his years Vanis Buckholz, a 10 year-old boy who launched his own recycling business in his home … Continue reading 10 year old boy starts recycling business
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey knows what’s best for you, and fighting climate change ain’t it By Philip Bump, grist.org You’d think that by now John Mackey would have learned to shut up. The Whole Foods CEO and cofounder would no doubt be incensed at my saying so, of course, since — in classic hyper-entitled, … Continue reading Whole Foods CEO John Mackey perceptions about climate
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