The Kroger chain of stores, including QFC, King Soopers, City Market and more, are slaughtering trees for no good reason. Will you ask them to stop? I just went to the store, […]
Dear Kroger: why do your stores waste so much paper?
Nota Bene #92: Echoblowcation
A few things for you NB readers:
Nota Bene #89: Horrors
With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe… Once upon a midnight dreary, as you quaffed drinks brown and beery, Came a tapping amid the gloom, upon the closed door of your room. You […]
I am no better than George Will. And it sucks.
by John Harvin “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas,” supposedly said Miriam “Ma” Ferguson, first woman governor of Texas, […]
Executive Recycling responses to 60 Minutes
A couple of days ago I posted a 60 Minutes segment that shows how illegal e-waste recycling work, with Colorado-based Executive Recycling (ER) as exhibit A. ER has since posted two responses […]
The Weekly Carboholic: ARGO ocean data raises climate questions
According to this story from National Public Radio, data from autonomous ocean probes have detected no aggregate ocean warming since the probes came online in 2003. The Argo system comprises 3,000 probes […]
Would you like some sparkling clear sewer water with your meal?
A new program in Orange County has the locals squicking out over a supposed “toilet-to-tap” program. The program takes treated sewer water, runs it through the same reverse osmosis process that bottled […]
