The World's Fair

Follow the Coal $$ Near You

Appalachian Voices shows you how to connect to legislators shilling for Big Coal and how to follow the $$. They do good work there at AV. We've pointed to their actions before (with Mountaintop...

Whoa - the word "genome" crops up in the new(ish) Beck B-Side "Bonfire Blondes"

I tell you - first we have a great video from Beck on sustainability, and now he goes and uses the word genome in a new B-side. The word genome - a rare word, indeed, when you look on the song lyric...

Epistolary Politics: The Guilfoile-Warner Papers

Add this to your daily read, I ask: Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner have expanded their occasional series of letters over at The Morning News into a full-on blog, back-and-forth, letters, epistolary....

A scientific guide to voting in the Canadian Federal Election (the flowchart)

I've got a pin-up published at the Science Creative Quarterly today (you can download the pdf at the link). At its heart, this flowchart is really a comparison of the carbon tax, cap and trade,...

Science, Sneezing, and Environmental Justice: Part 3 with Author Gregg Mitman

Pt. 1| Pt. 2| Pt. 3 - - - Part 3 with Gregg Mitman, discussing his book Breathing Space, follows below. All entries in the author-meets-blogger series can be found here. Read the rest of...

The World's Fair (Hey, It's Not Like We're Asking For $700 Billion) DonorsChoose Drive.

You know the scoop. Every little donation counts (and I just noticed we got our first one!), and it's all in the name of education. In this case, environmental sciences. And just like the title...

Some numbers of interest - bail outs, foreign aid, saving wall street, saving the world

700,000,000,000 - approximate number of US dollars proposed in the bail out bill (link). 0.7 - percentage of GDP agreed upon in 1970 to be set aside for foreign aid. Often sited as an appropriate...

Vancouver ScienceBlogger meetup - the home movies.

Although Jennifer and I had our 1,000,000th comment party a few weeks back, I only just had an opportunity to get the video footage on to YouTube. It was funny, but the "having to video" bit was a...

The first World's Fair List (kind of like a DIY Harpers Index)

Hey, let's start a World's Fair tradition right here. One that combines the power of posting, linking, as well as commenting, all in the name of producing a list of facts that somehow does a little...

Allergies, Environmental Justice, Theory, and Audience: Part II with Author Gregg Mitman

Pt. 1| Pt. 2| Pt. 3 - - - Part 2 with Gregg Mitman, discussing his book Breathing Space, follows below. All entries in the author-meets-blogger series can be found here. Read the rest of...