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Remarkable satellite images of Africa showing stark changes in the continent’s landscape over the past half century years from NatGeo. This one below shows Kilimanjaro.
Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro has seen dramatic glacial retreat between 1976 (left) and 2006. The mountaintop glacial area has decreased 80 percent since the early 20th century, says a UN atlas released [...]

I built this yesterday afternoon, and tonight’s veg scraps will be its first inhabiters. It was surprisingly easy to build, taking only about 4 hours. I didn’t want to use too much wood, so I opted for a more “airy” design using hardware cloth on all sides instead of wooden walls. I’m hopeful there’s not too [...]

We just learned news of this proposed 41-mile commuter/light rail train from Denver’s Union Station to Longmont. One of the stops includes Gunbarrel, just down the hill from our new house. We couldn’t be happier.

Check out the details: http://www.rtd-fastracks.com/nw_1

I haven’t written much as of late because I’ve been working my ass off on I-don’t-know-how-many-projects. Plus my wife and I recently bought a new house, moved closer to ze mountains, traveled to Key West and are about to board a jet for Newport, Rhode Island in 48 hours. I’ve come across some stuff I’d [...]

Time Magazine’s feature.

Some simple ways to change your life and change the planet for the better.

On the heels of Al’s An Inconvenient Truth, Leo follows up with this apparently more dramatic, NY Times Critics’ Pic: The 11th Hour.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the environment, blah, blah, blah, melting ice caps. To judge from all the gas-guzzlers still fouling the air and the plastic bottles clogging the dumps, it appears that the news [...]

I was well aware of the fact that here in the U.S. we have some of the lowest fuel prices of anywhere in the world (despite the incessant whining of people still driving Hummers and Suburbans), but I didn’t know these particular western countries were ahead of us.

What does it matter, though? Some jerks just [...]

New desks, fish tanks, and a great new site called Formation.

Not surprising from AT&T. Dumbasses.