Five Percent: Conserve a Little Energy

Yeah, get a bigger car. Drive more. Screw the hybrid golf carts: I want a Hummer. And now I feel entirely justified, because this report from Environmental Defense, a bunch of tree-hugging, commie, smarty-pantses show clearly that car emissions account for only 20% of annual US global warming emissions. Not even worth messing with. (I’m joking)

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Perhaps the fact that it finally melted a little this not-quite-spring-yet weekend is to blame, but I took my bike in to the shop to get a much needed tune-up. I’m ready to start riding to work again, and not a moment too soon. Just because this has been an exceptionally warm, or at least short winter doesn’t mean anything on the scale of global statistics, but I have to say, I’m glad. While there’s no strong evidence that extended daylight savings time actually does anything to save energy, I’m still glad, because I like light, and I don’t think it will hurt. And the Union of Concerned Scientists reports that U.S. Northeast faces a hotter future but I’m still cheery. Because I can ride.

There’s a bit of a paradox: global warming makes it easier for me to do things to reduce global warming. (more…)

I have been feeling like there’s more out there than I know, but too much to find. I am fascinated by StumbleUpon. You tell it what you’re interested in, and it find random sites for you. If you like the site, you click the Thumbs Up button, which trains the system about you, and provides information for all other users.

Ok, so StumbleUpon is a little irrelevant, but I found 100 Ways to Save The Environment, and a funny video from Blue Man Group and The Environmental Footprint Quiz.

Perhaps my mission in life (on this blog) is to find and link cool stuff so that other people can find it too.