Image credit: Andres Rueda , used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Is it more sustainable to use cash or credit cards to pay for transactions?
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Image credit: Andres Rueda , used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Is it more sustainable to use cash or credit cards to pay for transactions? The correlation between consumerism and environmental impact goes without saying but aside from the embodied impact of our purchases, what about the transaction itself? Allison Arieff just kills with her latest article in the New York Times on suburban housing. This is a different world than the modern prefabs she used to write about, or the solar decathlon houses that every blog is talking about; this is where most Americans live. She describes how regional vernacular forms that worked so well have disappeared: Today, it’s essentially the same floor plan, sheetrock and construction that’s used coast to coast Photo: Jen SFO-BCN via Flickr/CC BY I was out on vacation last week, but I still caught wind of the new headline-making study Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy . Photo: House GOP Leader via Flickr/CC BY D.R. Tucker, a Republican writer and radio show host, made a splash when he announced on Frum Forum that he had ‘converted’ to accepting the overwhelming scientific evidence that humans are causing the planet to warm. Image: DFID via flickr We hear a lot about the impact of climate change on agriculture , especially smallholder farmers , but there’s a group of people who advise those farmers who are also affected: rainmakers. This may sound like a joke to people who have constant access to advanced technology (and, for example, can consume their news online), but in regi… Read the full story on TreeHugger While there’s really no shortage of information out there showing just how dirty, destructive, and dangerous energy derived from burning coal can be , sometimes the most effective way of getting that point across is with good ol’ fashioned satire. The folks over at the Renewable Energy Accountability Project (REAP) have put together a hilariously spot on mock-advertisement for a coal-based energy drink. Unfortunately, the similarities between this fictional beverage and the Photo: cliff1066™ / cc There’s popular imagery surrounding the dairy industry in California, one of ‘happy’ cows peacefully grazing on a lush hillside under the beautiful blue sky — but the reality, it seems, is quite a departure from this. According to a class-action lawsuit filed recently on behalf of consumers against an enormous milk conglomerate known as Cooperatives Working Together (CWT), California dairy farmers conspired to illegally drive up the cost of milk and cheese products by killing dairy cows — some 500,000 othe… photo: tjodolv / CC BY Echoing what countless NGOs, economists and the UN have said previously, the World Bank apparently will be weighing in on fossil fuel subsidies. According to draft documents leaked to The Guardian , the World Bank will tell G20 finance ministers that the $50 billion in Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr/CC BY-SA This kind of thing is ridiculously common in the opaque corporate lovefest that constitutes modern American politics — though in any historical moment not buffeted by Bush-era cronyism, Citizens United, and multibillion dollar presidential campaigns it would probably be deemed outrageous. New revelations have surfaced that Mitt Romney’s top energy advisor, Jim Talent, is the co-chair of a massive lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs. And that massive lobbying firm has a massive client in Peabody Ene… |
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