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Made by the Aussies, it's a greenhouse gas calculator - it determines how much CO_2 you produce in a year (3 tonnes per year per person is the sustainable amount, 24 is the average Aussie), and therefore when you should kill yourself so you don't use more than your fair share.

I produce 15.0 tonnes of CO_2 per year (according to their calculator), and therefore I should die at age 15.4. At least I'm better than average! :-P

Movie #9: An Inconvenient Truth
Took me long enough to see it. I rewound the section on the yearly oscillation in the CO_2 levels b/c I wanted to see exactly how he explained it - he did a good job. I didn't see any of the glaring errors I'd heard rumor of, but I did see a few places he might've been glossing over things. There weren't as many polar bears as I was expecting - in fact there was only a single CG one. I was also impressed w/ how he referred to albedo (reflectiveness) of the Earth in a few places as being a major source of the acceleration of the warming. I did think a bunch of it was likely over the heads of lots of watchers (though I suspect that the average watcher of this movie is more highly educated than the average movie-goer). I also liked the comparison to the ozone hole, and that the problem of the ozone hole has been essentially solved. (Though I'd like to see for once an environmental thing about global warming that has absolutely NO references to ozone since the physical processes are not at all related.)

Conclusion: it's worth seeing.

Conclusion 2: I resolve that when I've finished paying off my car, I'm going to [finally] sign us up for electricity from renewable resources, and if T$ doesn't want it I'll pay the difference myself. (My only New Year's Resolution.)

Edit:
Conclusion 3: Time to watch The Day After Tomorrow (or as we like to call it, "An Inconvenient Truth 2: The Reckoning")

Current Music: I Need to Wake Up - Melissa Etheridge

I just found out that my trash service picks up compost materials. But most of the stuff I would compost otherwise, I've got a garbage disposal to get rid of. Which is better for the environment for me to do?

check out this CNN slideshow.

How often do you get all those in one sentence?

Well, as the subject says, I've decided to go with the car rental. It may cost more, but it's so much more convenient. (Makes me wonder about my committment to saving the environment if I'm willing to pay double for the privledge of dumping CO₂ into the atmosphere. Hopefully I make up for it with other lifestyle choices.) I'm getting a pickup around 9am to get the car, I'll do whatever paperwork's necessary, drive to work to install shelving w/ R**, drive home to pack during dinner, and drive to my parents after dinner arriving late tonight. I'll return the car on Monday since they're not open late Sunday - or Sunday at all.

Hopefully on Monday I can just drive my car the short distance to my landlord's shop, get a loaner from him (he says he should have a Ford Escort), maybe drive it to Cambridge during the week, and get my car fixed in time to go to a wedding in Vermont for the weekend.

I'm looking forward to the reunion. It'll be fun to see some 'splodey-heads from my hair change. I hope they don't make me feel like an idiot for being booted out of grad school, I'm going to have to be careful on how I put it. Hopefully I can spin it as WOW! you're a tenure-track professor! Plus you're helping out people less privledged than we were, and sharing your love of knowledge with the world. *shrug* I think I'm worrying for nothing, but I keep thinking they'll all be Nobel Prize winners, and run multi-million dollar startups and have started free food and condom programs in South Africa... For my classmates, none of that is actually unreasonable.

To anyone else with a worm bin, I've a question. I went to harvest some soil from it (I was repotting plants), and I noticed the soil was very gray, and not the rich brown I was expecting and had seen in the past. What causes this, and is it still good to use? My best guess is that I've been low on the "green" content lately (as in fresh veggies), and high on the paper pulp. There were LOTS of worms, at least one in every spoonful, so it's not a shortage of digestion.

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Entries tagged with environmentalism

Greenhouse calculator

Movie and Resolution

Compost vs. Garbage Disposal?

For the furries, joggers, environmentalists, and London fans,

Car rental; 10-year high school reunion

Worm bin question

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