Sunday, April 8th, 2007
I Bought This Week’s Time Magazine
Normally I don’t buy magazines like Time that provide mostly news bytes with little real context or deeper exploration of issues. But the April 9 edition includes 51 things each of us can do to reduce our impact on global warming. Some great ideas — many of them simple and as such really in line with this blog. Includes things like bringing your own bags to the grocery store (the thought that launched this blog), going vegetarian (cuts 1.5 times more carbon even than switching from a regular car to a hybrid), and building a bamboo fence.
I’ve only flipped through it so far, but my mother- and father-in-common-law read through it all this afternoon and said there were a bunch of things they realized they already do, and a bunch of things that are not that practical to do easily at home. But there are certainly also some good ideas that we can start doing immediately and some others we’re going to file away for later.
Image (c) Time Inc.
on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 at 10:55 pm:
I really like many of the 51 things they suggest. The passive solar thing is a really amazing thing that I’m discussing with my buddy Ziggy on some ideas for future houses, but it is really challenging to incorporate a lot of it into current structures so I think I need to find a new house
p.s. can you find the incorrect units in the 51 things?
check out #30 about shutting off your computer
“watts a day” is a meaningless unit, they would have been fine just saying “watts” as it is a measure of rate and based on my testing their 60-250 watts for a computer is reasonable.
on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 at 11:41 pm:
Nerd alert!!!