The Environment
Energy conservation and aesthetics
This morning, as I was seeing all too well by the light of the new LEDs in our bathroom lighting fixture, the thick black hairs growing out of my chin (I’m a fair-haired woman) I was remembering a conversation I had yesterday about energy efficiency. I was suggesting the replacement of household-wide incandescent lighting... »
Countdown to Extinction
National Geographic: Countdown to extinction: Last one “In the United States as elsewhere, stopping the countdown to extinction means preserving healthy habitats—the aim of the celebrated and scorned Endangered Species Act.” “We have no way of guessing how long our own kind will survive, but one thing is certain. The better the chances of... »