TGIF Edition 05-18-07

Images: American mass consumption, by the numbers
Seattle photographer Chris Jordan has created "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait", a series of prints which show modern American culture "through the austere lens of statistics". (from C|NET)
[tags : consumers, massconsumption, ecology, environment]


Rodriguez: Bike to Work Day: Start gearing up
Yesterday Thursday was the "Bike to Work Day" around San Francisco and the Silicon Valley.  There might be "a growing awareness that commuting by bicycle is the right thing to do".
[tags : environment, globalwarming, climate, siliconvalley]


Planning for a Climate-Changed World
This article is the first one of a series published by MIT' Technology Review on "how states and cities are searching for the fine-scale predictions they need to prepare for emergencies".
[tags :  environment,  globalwarming ,  climatechange]