emissions tag
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Cars, Sprawl Are Killing Us: American Public Health Association
If there is any doubt that locating in car-oriented poor-transit served office parks and residing in likewise-vehicle-dependent low-density suburbs are injurious to our health--and one reason why healthcare costs are so high--a new report by the American Public Health Association,...
Commuting A Pain In More Ways Than One
Commuting is bad for the environment. Emissions from vehicles both directly and indirectly through fossil-fueled and river-befouling power plants, and from construction and maintenance combined with open space land grabs combine to form a toxic stew that is slowly killing...
Green Guilt-Free Flying
It will be possible, depending on how quickly and urgently the aviation industry acts to develop and roll out the technology, to fly and work on your laptop without worrying about the emissions-related harm being incurred and the life-enabling open...
Why EVs (etc.) are NG
I have long been skeptical about electric or other alternative-fueled vehicles as truly green technologies because they all consume vast amounts of life-giving open space to transport comparatively few people and goods, drives more sprawl, which does likewise, and incurs...
Another Great Reason To Truly (No Sprawl) Go Green: Your Health and Healthcare
"Just go out for a breath of air/And you'll be ready for Medicare"--Tom LehrerThe Canadian Medical Association released a literally devastating report earlier this month titled: "No Breathing Room: National Illness Costs of Air Pollution" that bears out the brilliance, prescience,...
To Go Green, Go Dumb (as in computing)
The smartest computing solution environment-wise for organizations is to go dumb, as in dumb terminals. Richard 'Zippy' Grigonis, executive editor, Internet Telephony reports that network computing either with purpose-built thin-client systems or even 'lobotomized' PCs connected to a network server use...
Green Mountain Daily
Green Mountain Daily has some interesting analysis of coal-to-liquid technology (CTL) as well as Barack Obama’s take. The blog entry is quite detailed and worth a read. While CTL seems to be a panacea when coal is abundant -- it...
