Carl Pope: Taking the Initiative: A Reminder of What Keeps Us Going – Sierra Club
EARTH VERSE
Wide enough to keep you looking
Open enough to keep you moving
Dry enough to keep you honest
Prickly enough to make you tough
Green enough to go on living
Old enough to give you dreams.
– Gary Snyder, June 2005
Does she realize that this is a very unusual CD? No legaleeze, no logo, no name, no title, no UPC, no date… just the orange numeral “1” on the green circle (enso)…
Honda Insight: The Once and Future Mileage King – New York Times
When it was introduced in 1999 as the first gasoline-electric hybrid sold in America in modern times, it was also the most fuel-efficient mass-produced car. Although production ended this summer, it remains the nation’s mileage champ after seven years.
Nice piece on the Insight. There quite a few of these cars in Santa Fe and I love the way they look. They seem to glide.
Texas set to build new coal-fired power plants
Everyone is justifiably excited about the good news out of California, but a much more representative microcosm of the climate debate can be found in the great state of Texas. Texas leads the nation in GHG emissions — it spews more than Canada or the U.K. It has no plan for reducing those emissions. It has rejected legislative efforts to reduce them for years.
(Via Gristmill)
