November 2009
4 posts
Land Mass and Population Size By Country | Herald... →
interesting point of departure for tinkering with representations of population - what does it look like normalized & rank ordered, ratio pop to habitable land (rather than total) or compared to energy, water, other resources, etc?
Phil Howard - Organic industry consolidation →
Paying a premium for organic food? Support thr remaininh independents!
October 2009
3 posts
“When the sea returns to Aralsk,” he said, “I will write a symphony...”
– Reading Eagle Newspaper Oct 26, 2:32 AM EDTFrom barren Central Asian steppes, a devastated sea is reborn - and along with it hope
By PETER LEONARD Associated Press Writer
“But women need to take risks — and to realize that at some point they will fail....”
– Op-Ed Contributor - The Mismeasure of Woman - NYTimes.com (of course, I would s/women/individuals/)
“Noah, bogged down with ever-more-grandiose plans for luxury suites aboard the...”
– Lost in translation - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
August 2009
10 posts
“But in its own study last year of 121 new buildings certified through 2006, the...”
– Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label - NYTimes.com
Whoa - didn’t realize it was THAT bad. Fer shame, folks.
“The plaque should be installed with removable screws,” said Henry Gifford, an...”
– Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label - NYTimes.com
“It has LEED certification, the country’s most recognized seal of approval for...”
– Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label - NYTimes.com
DOH!
Map of ENERGY STAR Labeled Facilities in New York,... →
Neat- EPA finaly found Google Maps.
“Quoting a Fitch report: “Delinquency cure rates refer to the percentage of...”
– Calculated Risk: Fitch: “Dramatic” Decrease in Cure Rates for Delinquent Mortgage Loans
“We track the dirty, congested and expensive things.”
– Smart green infrastructure - Open Source Planning Paradigm & Climate Change
“researchers have discovered that the sensation of being highly stressed can...”
– Basics - Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop - NYTimes.com
“This lucky mouse has had a gene knocked out of his genome by researchers in Hei...”
– Rodent of the Week: Carb gene found! | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times
January 2009
1 post
“we felt like the ‘Chosen Ones,’ with no obligation to do anything...”
– Chu’s Green Energy Agenda - BusinessWeek
December 2008
7 posts
“John P. Holdren, who Mr. Obama is expected to name on Saturday as his choice for...”
– Sea Champion Picked for Ocean, Air Agency - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
“We cannot keep throwing money at the problem, hoping for a different result. We...”
– Secretary of Housing and Urban Development announced in Weekly Address | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
“Clausewitz said that you have to have a plan for the battle but the plan had...”
– BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The brilliance of creative chaos
“The balance between taking measures domestically and taking measures abroad is...”
– Discount Shopping for Carbon Credits - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
“What makes Twitter good is two things: the first is that you can get at it in so...”
– » Identi.ca, Twitter, and posting between the two » as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge
“In schools, science is often taught as a body of knowledge — a set of facts and...”
– Back to Reality - Olivia Judson Blog - NYTimes.com
“Climate change is not the story of our time…. So how we mesh infinite...”
– Climate, ‘Not the Story of Our Time’ - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
November 2008
10 posts
“We’ve had no government for 18 years. We have no life. Our last resource...”
– BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | ‘Mummy, can I phone the pirates?’
“My own view of the matter is that a lot of this anger and contempt and disgust...”
– Calculated Risk: Leverage, Ratings and Forced Unwind
“An industry that cannot tell you where subprime ends and Alt-A begins will not...”
– Calculated Risk: Mortgage Origination Channels for UberNerds
“We have the same return expectations as from our conventional investments,” said...”
– Investment Funds Push an Environmental Agenda - NYTimes.com
“But when the government throws together a bailout that could end up being...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - All Fall Down - NYTimes.com
“Latin America provides a third of the nation’s oil imports, most of its...”
– Editorial - About Latin America - NYTimes.com
“We aren’t cool calculators of self-interest who sometimes go crazy; we’re...”
– Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely - Book Review - New York Times
“The firm recently concluded a study called “Four Shades of Green.” It was a...”
– Interview with Peter I. Weingarten, from FXFOWLE Architects - Zetlin & De Chiara
“Top Wall Street executives ought to forego bonuses during this difficult time;...”
– DiNapoli Report: Wall Street’s Transformation Will Lead To Lower Tax Revenues; Continued Job Losses, 11/24/08
“Obama is our president and now we must go back to work, with the same interest,...”
– Cory Booker: Barack Obama is Elected President — Now What?
October 2008
2 posts
“This is the third US crisis in the past 20 years, after the Savings & Loan...”
– Joseph Stiglitz
“an America with 50 green states — not an America divided between red and blue...”
– Thomas L. Friedman - Energy - Green Power - Global Warming - Renewable Energy - The Power of Green - New York Times
September 2008
2 posts
“I asked former President Jimmy Carter what he thinks the next US president might...”
– Philippe Sands (via mattlehrer) (via chetgulland) (via mikehudack)
