Environment

14 Jan 2009 1004H

I hate snow.

Ridiculous ridiculous driving. It’s not so bad when the plows get to the snow. It’s ridiculous when the event hits during rush hour. I’m resigned.

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18 Sep 2008 1009H

Excuse me?

Probably being baited here, but, as a resident of a Chinatown, I kind of take offense when I read this sort of thing:
Along with shopping malls, petrol stations and branches of McDonalds, the old China Town renders all of our cities boring and alike. It is nothing more than restaurant streets and fake traditional buildings [...]

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08 Jan 2008 0934H

Springtime in Chicago, ahhhhh

Well, not so much so. It was 65° yesterday and so I popped open all the windows. Didn’t venture outside much though. Then the thunderstorms and tornado watches started in the evening, but it was already getting chilly. I really do enjoy the brief spring we have here in Chicago. Looking outside the window it’s [...]

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08 Jul 2007 0814H

Some notes on Live Earth and my impact

There are things everyone can do. Here are some things I’m looking at.
Consuming water in disposable plastic bottles? Crazy unsustainable. Must stop. Do you drink Dasani? Odds are good that’s your municipal water being resold back to you. Just use your tap water in a stainless steel bottle: unlike polycarbonate bottles, it doesn’t have bisphenol-A, [...]

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21 Jun 2007 1810H

Apple recycles your old hardware

My dad has a hand-me-down Pentium III which had been my PC from senior year and grad school, which I had replaced literally every part of except for the case. I actually still have all that obsolete but perfectly good hardware somewhere, plus a few CRTs, which all contain mercury, even the fried AGP graphics [...]

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02 Oct 2006 1211H

Reduce, reuse, recycle: books in Chicagoland, and other things

Summary: Little City Foundation for books; checking St Vincent De Paul and Salvation Army for furnishings; might recycle the appliances when we get rid of the old fridge.
So, re: my ten boxes of books up north, I was looking towards Bridge to Asia to donate a load of them, but, that would incur a drive [...]

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