Via Slacktivist:

Project Laundry List, which "is making air-drying laundry acceptable and desirable as a simple and effective way to save energy." I heart their website, which is full of such charming bits as a "testimonial" from Ben Franklin ("We must all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately.") and an image of the history ( Read more... )

(via bwilder: Cities and Ambition. Read it, then come back. I'll wait ( Read more... )

Via happyfunpaul: Eating Green: Food Type Trumps DistanceIn summary: quit eating so damn much red meat, Americans! Which is not news, of course. But it lays out a few of the stats in a nice way. (They gloss over this a bit in the article, because it's short, but obviously there's a lot more to the issue than carbon emissions: pesticide and fertilizer runoff ( Read more... )

Wow.

My favorite part is how the article ends with, "Other local students also did well at the national science fair," and then lists them. Because he's just a local boy who did some good schoolwork, eh?

Thanks, msakai!

NSTAR is finally instituting a green power program in Massachusetts! You can elect to get half or all of your electricity from wind power. They haven't confirmed a price yet, but they're guessing that it will cost an average of $4-7 extra a month. For me, and for most of you, that's nothing, really. Woot ( Read more... )

(Warning: total downer)

I just finished The Abstinence Teacher, by Tom Perrotta. Here's a flashback of fundamentalist church founder Pastor Dennis, when he was a Best Buy techie in the process of being called by God ( Read more... )

Today I actually a) remembered to bring the necessary dish and b) got up the nerve to ask the cashier at Cosi in South Station to put my soup in a reusable container. She just did it, no "I have to ask the manager," and no filling a throwaway cup to determine the amount and then pouring it into my container (as I had feared). It was awesome ( Read more... )

I just emailed this to my co-workers:

Dear fellow environmentalists ( Read more... )