A new article from Greenpeace lists the toilet paper that should and should not be used.
Strangely, there is no suggestion to move to a bidet or anything more advanced to cut down on paper use.
It seems that the Guardian believes that Americans are the cause of virgin forest clear cutting.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Top 5 videos: February 2009
#5: Enunciate when you ask marketers for McDs Japan for an ad to make you hungry
#4: That's my Jam
#3: Protect your junk
#2: Lazy
#1: Awkward
#4: That's my Jam
#3: Protect your junk
#2: Lazy
#1: Awkward
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Financial companies use cents wisely
"The New York comptroller reported this week that Wall Street firms paid out $18.4 billion... in bonuses to employees, despite receiving multi-billion dollar payouts from the government to save them from collapse in the face of the worst financial crisis in decades."
If you're going out of business, should you use loans to pay extra money to your employees?
If you're going out of business, should you use loans to pay extra money to your employees?
Friday, January 23, 2009
Obamarama strains the Internet
It appears that computer literate people were interested in the inauguration on Tuesday.
Atlas reports that in the five years they've been monitoring traffic, this was "one of the single largest one day spikes in Internet traffic".
It's a good thing all those people aren't using Hulu and Fancast all the time.
Atlas reports that in the five years they've been monitoring traffic, this was "one of the single largest one day spikes in Internet traffic".
It's a good thing all those people aren't using Hulu and Fancast all the time.
Choo Choo: China does what the US should
"China will spend $88 billion constructing intercity rail lines." This is a statement made in a recent NY Times article about how China is looking to avoid the global recession. From that $88 billion, $24 billion will be used to create a high-speed route from Beijing to Guangzhou.
In contrast, the US $825 billion economic plan allocates less than 5% to transportation with no assertions of large projects involving high-speed rail.
"China has already built as many miles of high-speed passenger rail lines in the last four years as Europe has in two decades. A new bullet train from Beijing to Tianjin, opened last summer, travels at up to 217 miles an hour; the top speed of Amtrak’s Acela Express trains in the Northeastern United States is 150 m.p.h., and it is only briefly attained."
Perhaps part of the US's "energy independence" can include public transit that citizens would actually use?
In contrast, the US $825 billion economic plan allocates less than 5% to transportation with no assertions of large projects involving high-speed rail.
"China has already built as many miles of high-speed passenger rail lines in the last four years as Europe has in two decades. A new bullet train from Beijing to Tianjin, opened last summer, travels at up to 217 miles an hour; the top speed of Amtrak’s Acela Express trains in the Northeastern United States is 150 m.p.h., and it is only briefly attained."
Perhaps part of the US's "energy independence" can include public transit that citizens would actually use?
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