Category Archives: environment

The Answers to the Annoying Arguements— Prius vs. the SUV

July 16, 2007 – 11:45 pm

Why are people so easily fooled?
Right off the bat it needs to be pointed out that the Prius isn’t 100% green, it probably isn’t even 50% green. That said, SUV’s are worse, even if a report by a marketing team uses bad science and silly assumptions to say it ain’t so.
There’s also those folks [...]

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Wanted Dead or Alive: CO2
Reward: $25 Million

February 9, 2007 – 11:54 am

Sir Richard Branson along with Vice President Al Gore and some other unnamed (because no one loves them) people have offered up a $25 million dollar reward. What do you need to do to cash in? Invent a way to suck CO2 out of the air. Why? Well, Sir Richard said that:
The [...]

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The Heart of Oil

December 29, 2006 – 10:20 am

It’s a tricky situation, but the gist of it is this— Exxon still hasn’t fairly compensated the people it hurt when the Valdez poured between 10.8 and 30 million gallons of poison into the Alaskan coastline on March 24th 1989. Exxon has various silly reasons for saying they don’t have to pay the [...]

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Sounds Like Bad News

November 11, 2006 – 12:14 pm

The Puget Sound is dying. All our water is in trouble. It’s nothing new, when I was in elementary school we learned about lakes dying because of pollution, it doesn’t take a huge leap to realize that it’ll happen to every body of water that see regualr pollution. Bigger bodies of water, [...]

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