Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The Best And Worst Of Each State

Lately I have been doing a lot of research on single-use bag reform and various renewable energy initiatives for work. I love trying to be an overachiever, so I have been doing a lot of work outside of the office, but an unintended result of that is I have been finding it difficult to find the time to really dive into a blog post.

Luckily, one of my readers submitted a link to me last night and I figured that this would be a fantastic opportunity for me to not do any outside research OR write original material!

A round of applause for procrastination, please.

The charts below come from the Mother Nature Network and outline each states most positive environmental statistic along with its most negative. You can click each picture to make them bigger, but I personally find the Texas statistics the most hilarious.


There is something ironic about a state having both the largest presence of clean wind power along with the most carbon dioxide emissions, but it is what it is.

It is probably safe to say that you shouldn't write any term papers on the correlations between these two charts, but if you do, pick Utah and title your paper "Breast Feeding Is Destroying Green Jobs."

You'll get an A just for creativity.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Michael Soulé's Work With Conservation Biology

This morning I had an interview/meeting in downtown Chicago and now I am looking to get a good chunk of work done on final papers as my last semester of school comes to a close, so unfortunately the blog productivity is going to take a bit of a hit today.

To make up for my mental absence today, I would like to point all of you in the direction of an interview that my friend and "colleague*" posted two days ago with Michael Soulé and his work with conservation biology.

It is easy for me to get distracted by alternative energy, energy efficiency, and all that when at the end of the day the thing that will benefit the most from these things is the environment.

So take a look.

Read a book.

Knowledge is power.





*ha!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Sunday Comics

Sorry for not posting anything yesterday.  Blogger was being a turd and refused to actually upload what I wrote, so I'll just save that post for this week at some point.

To make it up to my thousands of readers (numbers may be skewed to support the author's ego), here is an extra-large serving of Sunday Comics!

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
www.smbc-comics.com/

Also, in relation to my post this past Tuesday about leaf-blowers, I found this following comic posted the following day.  Does this mean that the writer is an avid reader of this blog? Probably not, but I sure am going to act like it!

Savage Chickens
www.savagechickens.com

And finally, for no good reason whatsoever, here is the greatest photobomb ever captured.  Nature is awesome.



Hope the remainder of your weekend goes well! It is a short week (for most of us) this coming week!