When I was a child in the 1970s, there was something called The Ecology ( Read more... )

FOLKS I'M SHOWING MY SUPPORT FOR THE OCEAN AND THE BEACH AND THE FISH AND THE WHALES AND THE SEA ANEMONES AND THE SURFERS AND THE LAUGHING, RUNNING CHILDREN IN THE WAVES AND OUR FUTURE ON THE PLANET BY PUTTING THIS ORNAMENTAL LICENSE PLATE ON MY PIECE OF SHIT TRUCK THAT GETS 14 MILES PER GALLON AND IS ENTIRELY EMPTY BUT EXTREMELY SHINY BECAUSE THAT ( Read more... )

The Fish List is gone. Or at least its home page is, and points back to the Seafood Choices site. The list itself remains, but I don't know when it was last updated ( Read more... )

1. Hybrid cars are not intended to save fuel, and do so poorly. They are intended to reduce emissions. The reason they exist is that auto makers are required to reduce their overall emissions and to provide some zero emissions vehicle by law. In order to continue producing luxury trucks with inefficient pushrod V-8 engines, they must produce a token ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about social responsibility a lot this week. This is partly because I've been reading Michael Pollard's excellent The Omnivore's Dilemma which is about the consequences of food. Also, causes and activisms get discussed a lot in the LJ space, so whenever I read through my list I encounter the question: how shall I live in light of ( Read more... )

400 KG SUPERJELLIES ATTACK TOKYO!


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It's rare to see me supporting libertarian grumps against conservation rules, but I don't think that forcibly crippling the nation's showerheads is an effective strategy for reducing water consumption.

SEWAGE AND INTERSEX FISH! SEWAGE AND INTERSEX FISH! SEWAGE AND INTERSEX FISH!

Three-eyed unclefucker fish, flying slugs, deadly cold-blooded sea badgers, parakeetopotamus, puffercows, fifty pound flies, terror, madness. DON'T LITTER.

Long-Term Fossil Fuel Use Could Raise Earth Temperature 14.5°


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