http://thoughts.bentweb.com How do we get rid of the word sustainable? Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:14:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cutting meat consumption. http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=127 I recently updated the design to my blog to be slightly more professional. It was simple and a little crass before, and I feel it's much more readable and aesthetically pleasing at the same time now. I changed to a new theme today, and am deciding whether to keep it ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=123 Leaders to meet in summer for special climate change talks - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent. Obama has reportedly sent out a call for another summit, not for the economy of the world, but the greening of ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=119 I found this via @sheagunther on twitter. It's a link to a blogpost he did concerning the cost of Mountaintop Removal for the coal industry. If you didn't know yet, the EPA recently released a halt to all permits for coal mining via mountaintop removal. Shortly following a coal industry ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=117 Facebook | Greenpeace USA's Notes. This is a Greenpeace USA Facebook note about the presence of global warming control in the budget. I don't care if you are republican or democrat, whether you like Bush, Obama, Reagan, whoever. Read this note, and if you need to, go to www.coal-is-clean.com, to read ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=115 How to talk to a Climate Change Skeptic | Grist This is amazing! I found this on Twitter via Treebanker (http://twitter.com/TreeBanker) and I have been searching for something like this for a quite a while. Thank you to Dan Tefft, aka Treebanker, for this. It reminds me of a question I ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=113 We made it to the big city...kinda. Dublin is a lot smaller than I thought it would be. The maps make it look so big, but we get there, and what looks like a 20 minute walk turns out to be 5. It's good, because Ryan and I walked the ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=100 Ok. I'm in Ireland for Spring Break. Arrived yesterday, am in Galway, and went to the Aran Isles today. Beautiful. Crap weather. Who could live in nothing but 40 degrees, rain, and wind constantly? gross. I can't post exceptionally long because my power converter popped in the wall a minute ago, ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=85 Josh Dorner: Coal Industry Front Group CEO Refuses to Say Whether Burning Coal Causes Global Warming (VIDEO). Watch the video in this Huffington Post article. It's astounding that the front group for the Coal Industry still has the audacity to say that they do not know whether burning coal contributes to ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=82 "First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully," the memo says. "The current campaign against terrorism may require even broadened exercises of federal power domestically. Terrorists operate within the continental United States itself and escape detection by concealing themselves within ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=76 Streetsblog » Bloomberg Puts Forward a Bold, Transformative New Vision for Broadway. NYC's Mayor Bloomberg is taking one of Manhattan's most well-known streets and pulling cars out of the equation. It makes sense...going to NYC last fall, I observed the tight corners and crazy alignment of Broadway compared to ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=74 Google not only has tips for saving energy, but they're providing utility companies free ways of allowing us to see in real time how we use our energy in our houses. It works for both the companies and us, and like I just said...completely FREE. Check it out. Just another ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=72 Have  ever mentioned how much I love Google? Check out these tips for saving energy: Energy Saving Info. Google Style. http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=69 My friend Brad wrote me a note concerning my last post, commenting on my statement of, "Democracy seems to be a pretty popular trend that started about 233 years ago," (2.24.2009). The primary point of the claim (correct me if I'm wrong Brad) was to educate me on the fact ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=60 There are problems. • Mr. Quicksolve does not live here anymore. In fact, he is like George Kaplan in Hitchcock's classic film North By Northwest: Mr. Quicksolve does not exist (and never did). • Accepting a quick solution means that we are addressing symptoms not causes. • Quick solutions do not work and often make things ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=55 "If the US converted all of its cropland to organic techniques it would be the equivalent of eliminating 217 million cars from the roads." via Use Organic Agriculture to Fight Climate Change, EU Official Says : TreeHugger. I wonder if there would be a severe cut to the production levels? Not much more ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=53 Howard Dean: The Far Right's All Out Offensive Against Medical Research. Paul Peete: It's Us Versus Them with the Stimulus Robert J. Elisberg: A Rush to Bad Judgment Here is an example of the typical partisan politics we keep seeing, especially in this Democrat-controlled term. As a once-Republican, I'm finding myself embarrassed and ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=43 3 Ways Text-Messaging Can Reduce Your Impact. Text the numbers from Idealbite.com and they give you tips on how to live more sustainably and info about companies that are sustainable (like Starbucks, Apple, etc.). The tips aren't hard things to implement in your daily routine. They're just the little, useful ones mom ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=36 Obama Plans Massive New High Speed Railroad : TreeHugger. This is awesome. I had heard mention of Obama proposing bring rail back, but this sounds pretty great. The bit about the Midwest being a concentration point will be pretty crucial. It is reminiscent in some ways of the Interurban lines that used to ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=32 So it was a valiant effort at first, but I was obviously unable to create a habit out of constantly journalling over class daily content. I'm going to try to revise, attempt another option, since I believe it is pretty important to constantly reflect on the information we encounter each ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=24 Poli Sci today introduced ways in which tax revenues can be accrued...To keep it short and to the point, here's the list I compiled during class. Name Effect Convince people of need clear as glass, accountability Close the Washington Monument cynical, cut out something popular to induce change Sweeten the pot benefit other groups so they help lobby Sunset ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=22 In Plan Law today we discussed the topics of Nuisances and Eminent Domain. The primary cases we discussed centered around three main cases: 1) Spur Industries v. Del Webb 2) Berman v. Parker and 3) Kelo v. The City of New London (CT) A couple thoughts on each... Spur v. Del Webb Both Spur (cattle feedfarm) ... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=12 I think that this semester I am going to try to reflect semi-frequently upon my semester's classes. I think that it will help me to gather my thoughts and understanding of the classes a little bit more completely... http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=10 The purpose of this blog is to look into the key aspects of sustainable urbanism: the design, economics, and lifestyle that creates successful and efficient urban environments. To build a lexicon ofvdata and best practices, it will utilize lists, opinions, and precedence studies to illustrate it's purposes. http://thoughts.bentweb.com/?p=7