Very little chance to post this week, as my home computer is in the shop. In the mean time, enjoy the Greenwash Brigade’s 2008 Greenwashes of the Year. The Greenwash Brigade is a group of environmental professionals, each part of the Public Insight Network, on the hunt for “greenwash” as they examine eco-friendly claims by [...]
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2008 Greenwashes of the Year
Posted in current events, environment, technology, tagged activism, economy, environment, oil, pr, sustainability on 13 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stop that drill!
Posted in current events, environment, technology, tagged california, energy, local, natural resources, oil, politics on 8 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I talked last week about last-ditch efforts of the current federal administration to open U.S. coastal waters to oil and natural gas drilling. In Wednesday’s Times-Standard, John Driscoll’s article “Thompson floats no-drill bill” discusses Rep. Mike Thompson’s attempt to protect the California North Coast from this threat. The most immediate threat generally perceived about offshore [...]
California coast threat: oil drilling
Posted in current events, environment, technology, tagged california, energy, environment, habitat, impacts, natural resources, oil on 29 December, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Department of the Interior, headed by industry-friendly, environmentally-challenged Dirk Kempthorne, is moving to open some or all of the U.S. coastal waters outside state control to offshore oil exploration starting in 2010. Planned assault The Bush administration has been gunning for this for a long time. Back in [...]
Cautiously optimistic: Science in 2009
Posted in current events, environment, science, technology, tagged climate, oil, physics, politics, science on 22 December, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m crossing my fingers on appointments for the new Obama administration. While there are a number of appointments that would not be my first choices, I understand that a lot of compromises are needed in politics. A few choices make me look up and hope for, you know, change: John P. Holdren has apparently been [...]
Running on empty for a few more miles
Posted in current events, markets, work, tagged california, economy, inflation, oil, remediation on 4 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the California environmental consulting business, there’s been a bit of dismay for the past month over a letter sent by the State Water Resources Control Board to various participants in the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund. The Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund Program was created in 1989 to help owners and operators of petroleum [...]
Skycrane of the future
Posted in current events, technology, tagged inflation, natural resources, oil, transportation on 11 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to last Wednesday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer, SkyHook and Boeing are teaming up to create a skycrane that is a cross between a dirigible and a helicopter. I don’t know enough about the economics of construction and operation of such craft to know the answer to my own question, but I wondered how the fuel, material, [...]
Trade-off: House prices vs. fuel prices
Posted in current events, tagged housing, inflation, oil, puget sound, transportation on 7 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting article in today’s Seattle Times: “Will Gas prices drive homebuyers away from suburbs?” Seattle, like the rest of the major West Coast cities, has a relatively high cost of living and high housing and fuel costs. Although the situation is not as acute as in San Francisco or L.A., this sort of question is [...]
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