http://whatdoesgreenmean.net Pondering the notion of being one slogan away from oblivion. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:51:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While our friends on the right keeping yelling about how backwards, unsafe and unfreedom it is to not sit in your car alone and imbibe talk radio, our friends on the Right Bank are doing something other than idling on the way to work. Yet the Réseau Primaire de Transport du Grand ... http://whatdoesgreenmean.net/?p=1462 Does a noise machine run on renewable energy? Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak today released information from BP regarding its spending on corporate advertising and marketing following the April 20, 2010, explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. At the suggestion of Representative Kathy Castor, on August 16, ... http://whatdoesgreenmean.net/?p=1460 Another in a continuing series of the gross misunderestimation of the externalities for the ways we presently produce energy and how these skew the perceptions of renewables. Take it away, Tom: Let's start with a recent editorial from the home of "free markets and free people," the Wall Street Journal. Photovoltaic solar ... http://whatdoesgreenmean.net/?p=1458 Lee Ving, dig it. Does everyone read arts& letters? I think I first saw this there. Many will pose challenges to the countries that give birth to them. For though no nation can succeed without at least one thriving urban anchor -- and even then, a functioning Kabul or Sarajevo is still no ... http://whatdoesgreenmean.net/?p=1456 A friend who recently visited UCSB was telling me about the bike lanes all over campus there. But without the current crazy amount of car congestion on the campus just outside my window, that would be greatly alleviated by the use of bicycles - and the construction of dedicated bike ... http://whatdoesgreenmean.net/?p=1453 When you've got enough of it, green means being able to influence elections, muddy the water on issues of the day, even fund fake grassroots movements, aka Tea Parties (R.I.P), all to stoke your corporate agenda while you call it libertarianism. Huzzah! Jane Mayer has a well-written and well-reported piece ... http://whatdoesgreenmean.net/?p=1450 The 2010 Fields Medals were carelessly handed out yesterday, in an utterly random fashion - I think they drew the names out a hat. The only requirements for the controversial prize is that winners are under forty years old and demonstrate some unquestionably innovative mathematical calculation that fundamentally alters our ... http://whatdoesgreenmean.net/?p=1448 Not to be alarmist but... are we using more electricity than ever? Sustainable growth? Remember that? Green me. When the mustache of understanding brings up sustainable growth, let's not forget this part of it. How much electricity we are using, where the 20 million barrels of oil we use per day ... http://whatdoesgreenmean.net/?p=1434 The Green Blouse, 1919, Pierre Bonnard "Vermillion in the orange shadows, on a cold, fine day," Pierre Bonnard wrote in a sketchbook on one of his daily walks near his home, at Le Cannet, north of Cannes. Born in 1867 in a suburb of Paris, he settled in the South of ... http://whatdoesgreenmean.net/?p=1431 NPR has apparently found a very sturdy drum and they've been beating it night & day. This Morning's Edition: President Obama's approach to domestic oil drilling has shifted over this year. Taken together, those shifts have managed to anger just about everyone in the oil drilling debate at one time ... http://whatdoesgreenmean.net/?p=1428