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I’ll get you, my pretties
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recycled film clips and music
Song originally written for Kermit the Frog by Joe Raposo, the fascinating composer for sesame street. (Via Lily Allen AmericanMadness*).
*Josh may have found it today through Lily Allen, but we had it posted on here a month before her. -Matt
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Albany Screws NYC Again
I’ve written often on this site about the propaganda tactics used to create the false impression of a scientific consensus about the effect of C02 on the earth’s climate. Because of this many people probably don’t see me as an environmentalist, but the truth is that I do care deeply about creating a clean environment where humans can live in relative symbiosis with nature. Part of my motivation for moving to New York City was the fact that urban dwelling just seemed like logical best approach to living in a world which will have 9 billion inhabitants in the not too distant future.
That being said, I was rather disappointed to see Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan go down in flames. Unlike his Olympic Bid and the West Side stadium, this proposal actually seemed to make sense. New York City is simply not designed to support massive numbers of vehicles. If most people did not already take public transport, the system would not work at all. As the population swells and more and more cars try to jam themselves into the The City the system will break down.
I’d like to ride my bike on my city’s streets without having to fear for my life. I’d like to be able to ride on a public transportation system that isn’t a relic from 1965 (The $350 million for public transport that Albany denied us will ensure that this does not happen). I’d like to be able to breath cleaner air.
The Legislature in Albany, who always seem to have New York City’s worst interests at heart, have denied me and other New Yorkers the right to live in a decent environment, so that they can drive their stinking SUVs into The City whenever they feel like it, without paying a toll for the misery it causes the rest of us.
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Apparently, It’s Not Easy Being Green
Well, at least if you are producing electronics. GreenPeace just published its quarterly report (they have run it 7 times since August ‘06) on the top 18 computer, cell phone, tv and video game companies and how they do in producing “Greener Electronics.”
While GreenPeace let’s you know how the companies do from one year to the next, they also have the previous reports linked so that you can see how they have been doing over to 1.5 year period that they have been running the report.
You can even read about why each company got the ranking that they received and how their practices have changed in the past quarter (if they have changed). While no one has yet received a 10 in going fully green (or as green as GreenPeace expects them to go), companies like Nokia, Sony, Dell, and Lenovo are inching towards it (all currently with 7.3).
For you Apple fans, they are tied on the second tier with Sony Ericsson, LGE, Fujitsu-Siemens and HP with 6.7, but have been inching their way up (while Sony-Ericsson, LGE, Fujitsu-Siemmens have all gone down).
This is interesting info and worth a peak, especially if you are concerned that your electronics will still be sitting in a landfill polluting the Earth for years after you are gone.
And for those of you in the market for a new TV, we have TakeBackMyTV (TBMTV). Read more »
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Green Update
Just a quick little post about my favorite topic: Green. Well, kind of, at least everything in this post can be tied together under the Green heading.
First up, a website for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was hacked and loaded up with spammer links to sell Viagra, Xanax and the like.
It looks like only the pages associated with the blog were attacked and linked to other hacked pages from Westmont College (that or the Christian College is running a side business pushing drugs).
Looks like the hackers exploited a flaw in WordPress (a popular piece of publishing software) security. Might be time for us to up our own security here.