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Friday, January 29th, 2010Credit: Golden Section Graphics
An article I co-authored on green hospitals for Fast Company is online now (it was for the Feb. issue, and looks way better in print than web, but so it goes). In the course of reporting the article, I got to speak to Perkins+Will architect Jean Mah, and one of the things [...]
On Incidental By-catch and Whale Wars
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Credit: Rene Ehrhardt via Flickr Creative Commons
I’ve seen several reports about data presented at last week’s International Whaling Commission meeting, but the most compelling study I’ve read about involves “incidental by-catch.” Japan and Korea are the only countries that allow the sale of whale meat derived from whales and dolphins accidentally caught by fisherman.
At the [...]
Oh, Earth Day
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska, Credit: Elizabeth Westly
With the economy in shambles, I don’t know if many people did much to commemorate Earth Day this year (it was yesterday). I don’t remember seeing anything about it. At any rate, my boyfriend Josh just left a comment on my Earth Day post from last year with a [...]
Is Splenda Bad News?
Monday, April 13th, 2009Credit: bsabarnowl via Flickr Creative Commons
Forget the Splenda vs Equal drama. There is now reason to believe that there are large concentrations of sucralose, the main ingredient in Splenda, throughout the developed world’s water systems. A high school student did her project for the Intel Science Talent Search competition last month on this very subject, [...]