Embarrassment

So I haven’t posted in a few weeks while I packed up life and moved back to the US, then to LA, then Seattle, and back to LA.  I’m embarressed to say that my carbon footprint for the week was about 6 Tons do to two really long haul flights, plus a rental car to…

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Airlines’ Cuts Making Cities No-Fly Zones – New York Times

Small are cities losing access to air travel, IN SPITE OF THE FACT that the government is subsidizing them to serve these small, non-profitable markets. How about subsidizing Amtrak instead? Airlines’ Cuts Making Cities No-Fly Zones – New York Times

California High Speed Rail

Watch the video about California High Speed Rail on Treehugger.com I could quote many figures from this, but I’ll just choose my favorite: “I’d rather be riding a high speed train” (when I can’t be biking of course). If you are in Cali, please help to get this on the ballot and get passed.  CA…

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One step towards a paperless office

Check out the following tag you can add to your signature, which I found on a friend’s e-mail: P Please consider the environment before printing this email   Copy, paste, and take one step towards reducing your impact.

U.S. Plans Steps to Ease Congestion at Airports – New York Times

Here’s an the deal:  American’s are flying alot, and the airport-system was not designed to handle this much air traffic.  Therefore, there needs to be a solution to “de-congest” some of the major arteries of the air-traffic system.  I see two solutions: Eliminate the 40 Billion dollar a year subsidy for airlines, and use that…

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Bike to Work Week

1world2wheels, originally uploaded by swimfast. I can’t believe I didn’t post this earlier, but this week (May 12th – May 16th) is bike to work week, and tomorrow is Bike to Work Day. There are many great resources for this, but I love my Trek bike so I’m going to like to their site. I’ve…

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