Planetshed

Read It and Weep: May 22, 2008By L.K. Williams; A gentleman named David set me straight on converting wood chips into paper in comments to an earlier blog.
Supply Based on Demand: May 20, 2008By Jason Goodman, L.K. Williams; In almost any city in the United States, you can find clusters of lots offering multiple and various makes of vehicles for sale. The lots on my commute nearly always look full. Do we have to do business this way?
Us Vs. Them: May 13, 2008By Jason Goodman; Why all the ire and vitriol?; For some reason, there are some really fanatical detractors of the idea that climate change exists. Mention climate change, and you can see the contempt and disgust wash over their faces. Suddenly the conversation turns, their expression sours, and a chill wind blows through the room -- you've become one of "those people."
Vetting and Balance: May 13, 2008By L.K. Williams; A reader is concerned that the environmental movement is out of control.
A Day for Water Workers: May 8, 2008By L.K. Williams; At my son's elementary school, there is a day to recognize the work of administrative staff, a day to bring flowers to teachers, and even a day to celebrate parent volunteers.
Catch Some Zs on the Plane: May 2, 2008By L.K. Williams; A trade show tickler; Trade show season is about to ramp up. How do you feel about that? (Do trade shows suck, do you find them useful, or is it something else? Relax. Close your eyes. Let your feelings out.)
Worth the Paper It's Printed On: April 30, 2008By L.K. Williams; Paper waste is the worst. Not because we are killing trees that are absorbing harmful manmade carbon dioxide emissions, but because not using paper has to be about the easiest thing in this high-tech world. Don't you think so?
Earth Day Activities: April 22, 2008By L.K. Williams; I had a lot of choices for things to do on Earth Day. I could have called my congressman and ranted about coal-powered electric plants. We never replaced a dying tree in my yard and I considered digging in mucky North Texas clay to plant a native pecan tree. The thought of catching who-knows-what in a local stream cleanup quashed that idea before it had a chance.
Water Reuse Is Perhaps a Dated Idea: April 17, 2008By L.K. Williams
The Day the Salmon Died: April 11, 2008By Jason Goodman; The center cannot hold; So, I was walking through a parking lot today when I read the following on a bumper sticker: "Deforestation -- the gateway to HELL." So naturally, I started thinking about deforestation. And I started thinking about biofuels, which have started to contribute heavily to increased deforestation, at least according to a recent article in TIME.
Education Can Be an Active Thing: March 31, 2008By L.K. Williams; Sometimes I just want to go back to school.; While the Associated Press was spending five months tracking down the presence of pharmaceuticals in treated drinking water, Paul Ritter's and Eric Bohm's students have been developing a program to return unused prescription drugs to their community's pharmacies.
Audits, Trees, and Metal-colored Buildings: March 25, 2008By L.K. Williams; Why are all these "green" things happening?; Why are all these "green" things happening? Did this movement begin with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its assessment reports? If you win a Nobel Peace Prize, does that mean you immediately attract followers? Surely not. Maybe it's Al Gore's fault. He popularized the notion that we were messing up the planet in "An Inconvenient Truth."
Hindsight: March 25, 2008By Jason Goodman; Who knew our flippant predictions four years ago would be so prophetic?; So, as you can see, we recently redesigned our Web site, and while I was sorting through the old stories trying to make them presentable in this new format, I ran across our January 2004 Executive Forecast, which included a list of "humorous" reasons the environment would decline in 2004. It was meant to be sort of a lark, something to take the edge off the seriousness of the rest of the article.