nader on sanders
"Bernie Sanders should tell the millions of voters watching the 'debates' that local socialism is as American as apple pie, going back to the 18th Century, by mentioning post offices, public highways, public drinking water systems, public libraries, public schools, public universities, and public electric companies as examples." --Ralph Nader
gunfinger
yarnbomber
104-year-old crocheter yarnbombs her town.
travel with a ghost
co2 graph
A graph!
Note this measures emissions per year, not emissions cumulatively. Also note the little dip in 2008. That was on account of the recession. This clearly indicates that in order to thwart climate change industry must pretty much stop. All the policy-making and conscious consumerism has done very little to address the actual problem, while what has had an actual impact is an economic downturn.
This is shocking to me, but not depressing. There's a lot of opportunity here and it's up to us as a species to figure it out. What kind of values do we need? What do we do about this? These questions are rote but they're important and good ones. And the answer is nowhere near "try to shop at Whole Foods once in a while".
swaath
Old (as in a few years ago) doom metal from Portland, Maine.
jade rivera piece
Jade Rivera (notice the person on the right for scale)
you are now less dumb
This is a well written, humbling, and very interesting book detailing some of the strange findings of psychology. I recommend it to everyone for the mere fact that it helps one understand their own brain which is a pretty cool thing if you're... you know, alive.
toulouse-lautrec piece
ought song
pzev
Driving around I've been seeing a lot of PZEV namepates with "Partial Zero-Emissions Vehicle" underneath. It's a strange term (how can something be partially nothing?) so I decided to do some amateur research which lead me to another funny acronym: SULEV or "Super Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle". What are these people 12!?
And to compound the silliness you have the fact that the creation of new vehicles produces as much or more pollution than the vehicle itself will over its entire life...
antichamber
This is the greatest video game mankind has produced. CASE CLOSED.