Tag Archives: environment

Scientific American Blogs – Observations: Can we get off oil now?

The argu­ment of drill here, drill now, doesn’t really mean much.

March 6, 2011 – 7:08 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Nature News – A world without mosquitoes

Mos­qui­toes, appar­ently we don’t need them for the web of life to keep working.

September 10, 2010 – 11:50 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

FiveThirtyEight – Politics Done Right: Cap-and-Trade is Dead; Long Live Cap-and-Trade

Nate Sil­ver once again wins points for not just being a great sta­tis­ti­cian but an astute polit­i­cal observer.

July 28, 2010 – 12:09 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Rolling Stone Politics – BP’s Next Disaster

BP next plans to start a drilling project in Alaska that is out­side of nor­mal engi­neer­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties, any­body hear alarm bells?

June 27, 2010 – 6:59 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Moving Is Environmentally Unfriendly

This became really obvi­ous to me today mov­ing my girl­friend to her new place. Just the sheer amount of junk thrown out is crazy. And it wasn’t just her, it was every­body, from elec­tron­ics and posters to even vac­uum clean­ers and plas­tic bins and all kinds of food. Mov­ing just from the basis of the …

August 3, 2008 – 11:05 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Random | Tagged , , , | Comments Off