Environmental & Space News
Recycles Theft: It's finally come to it. I was wondering how long it would take. The city's contractor now wants to take on lost value from the "mosquito fleets" of recycle thieves.
They even have a reporting tool online.
Regarding crime...I know I shouldn't generalize, but WTF?!
Other eco-news:
Grocery stores and food miles information-sharing.
Paris' Velib finally comes to Washington, DC by way of a Clear Channel exclusivity partnership - the Smart Bike DC. Good, just so long as it doesn't become another Disney-like showcase that only lives in a dusty corner of the nation's capital. There are more American cities that can use these solutions, and have more people whose transit needs can be met by the bicycle.
Home ethanol-brewing kit for the car. Still subsidies-dependent, but nevertheless part of the spectrum of decentralized generation that, frankly, feels inevitable. Regarding inputs and hazards, it, and other systems, can become as safely designed & managed as the home boiler.
That 'final frontier':
I can't help wondering what is going on with the US space program?! NASA's budget gets sliced & diced, earth sciences is shafted in a big way, and NASA is redirected to boon-doggle manned missions to the Moon and Mars while confronting a serious gap in launch capability between the inevitable retirement of the Shuttle and the as-yet-CGI-only replacement. A gap's temporary solution dependent on the priced goodwill of others.
The military then becomes increasingly assertive in this arena, with the US Air Force reimagining itself as a just-short-of-Buck Rogers-styled Aerospace Command, forming its own launch capability, but with inter-service rivalries that saw the satellite shoot-down job* going to the Navy (wa-whaat?).
Now, the Navy is withdrawing new pilots candidates to the astronaut program?!?
My how NASA's star has fallen.
*which makes the use of this 'threat' for USAF recruitment all the more odd.
They even have a reporting tool online.
Regarding crime...I know I shouldn't generalize, but WTF?!
Other eco-news:
Grocery stores and food miles information-sharing.
Paris' Velib finally comes to Washington, DC by way of a Clear Channel exclusivity partnership - the Smart Bike DC. Good, just so long as it doesn't become another Disney-like showcase that only lives in a dusty corner of the nation's capital. There are more American cities that can use these solutions, and have more people whose transit needs can be met by the bicycle.
Home ethanol-brewing kit for the car. Still subsidies-dependent, but nevertheless part of the spectrum of decentralized generation that, frankly, feels inevitable. Regarding inputs and hazards, it, and other systems, can become as safely designed & managed as the home boiler.
That 'final frontier':
I can't help wondering what is going on with the US space program?! NASA's budget gets sliced & diced, earth sciences is shafted in a big way, and NASA is redirected to boon-doggle manned missions to the Moon and Mars while confronting a serious gap in launch capability between the inevitable retirement of the Shuttle and the as-yet-CGI-only replacement. A gap's temporary solution dependent on the priced goodwill of others.
The military then becomes increasingly assertive in this arena, with the US Air Force reimagining itself as a just-short-of-Buck Rogers-styled Aerospace Command, forming its own launch capability, but with inter-service rivalries that saw the satellite shoot-down job* going to the Navy (wa-whaat?).
Now, the Navy is withdrawing new pilots candidates to the astronaut program?!?
My how NASA's star has fallen.
*which makes the use of this 'threat' for USAF recruitment all the more odd.