Exploding Aardvark

Category

ADDICTED TO OIL

Today, China consumes only a third as much oil as the United States, which burns a quarter of the world’s oil each day. By 2030, India and China together will import as much oil as the United States and Japan do today.
While demand is growing fastest abroad, Americans’ appetite for big cars and large houses […]

WORRY NO MORE!

“Where we put our dollars is the difference between human extinction and an exciting new eco-lifestyle!”

Greensumption (YouTube, via getpost)

LOW-IMPACT LIVING

Grapes are trained over the eaves of the green roof of his home, built on neglected farmland owned by a friend at Brithdir Mawr. Freshly dug potatoes sit in a bucket by the door and, after nearly 10 years, the bracken still sprouts through the kitchen’s earth floor every spring. Three small solar panels and […]

BULBLIGHT

Great for those nights when the grid collapses and you still need to get things done:

Lamp from Lightbulb (Street Use)

I AM SOOO TIRED OF THIS STUPID EMAIL

Don’t pump gas on May 15 and they will lower gas prices!!! Agh! Not another one!
Look, here is why no one should ever send me stuff like this:

I have taken a course in logic, my brain is fully fairly functional, and I can spot an argument as incredibly flawed as this one from miles and […]

SAD MR. BUSH

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla, spotted in the Washington Post)
I think he needs some cheering up. He used to enjoy blowing up frogs, right? Maybe we could send him a few frogs.

EXXON RIDICULE POLE

An Alaska Native ceremony to publicly shame Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest oil company and perpetrator of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 24, 2007, at the Masonic Hall in Cordova, Alaska. Mike Webber, an Alaska Native wood carver of Aleut and Tlingit descent, will unveil the […]

ETHANOL AND THE PRICE OF FOOD

From an interview with Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute:

The ethanol advocates like to say “we don’t eat much corn,” which is true. But in Mexico and some Central American countries, it is the food staple. It’s even more important as a source of feed. Our refrigerators are stuffed with corn: milk, […]

IT’S A START, I GUESS

For decades, Sen. Ted Stevens has battled environmentalists, but the Alaska Republican now finds himself in an unusual spot: pushing tougher fuel-economy standards for cars.
Amid heightened concerns over global warming and U.S. dependence on foreign oil, Stevens is one of a number of lawmakers shifting gears in the debate over whether Congress should mandate stricter […]

TITANIC OIL GLUT

Ten years from now, Titian red thunderheads will let loose a barrage of propane hailstones and torrents of LNG will fall, filling Titan’s great lakes with enough unleaded High Test to float a supertanker. If all the methane in Titan’s atmosphere condensed, the feckless moon would be thirteen feet deep in gas, not counting sea […]