The Human Spider

I saw this on the news this morning and had to get it up here (click here for the story). This nutcase, Alain Robert, also known as "The Human Spider" for his building-climbing hobby, scaled the side of the New York Times building yesterday to display his message on global warming! Some people blog, some people climb skyscrapers to hang signs - to each his own! (Check out this guy's website - The Solution is Simple).

Apparently inspired by Robert's stunt, some other guy, Renaldo Clarke, climbed the same building only seven hours later to get across his anti-malaria message (which was printed on his t-shirt).

Six Degrees Could Change The World

National Geographic is airing a special show called "Six Degrees Could Change The World" tonight, Sunday, February 10th at 8:00 p.m. EST.

If you happen to watch it, please share any comments!

Boston Going Green Expo

Amanda and I are going to check out this "Going Green Expo" in Boston tomorrow.

Interesting idea to prevent deforestation

Check out this article.

N.Y. passes law requiring plastic bag recycling programs

Sorry to keep posting about plastic bags, but it appears to be a hot topic. Just today, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a bill which, among other things, requires large retail stores to implement plastic bag recycling programs and reduce the number of plastic bags given to customers. This new law follows the lead of other cities who are attempting to reduce plastic bag usage. At the head of the pack is San Francisco, who, in April of last year, became the first city to altogether ban the use of plastic grocery bags. I commend these cities for taking the lead in what will hopefully someday be a universally accepted idea - NO MORE PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS! I predict that in 10 years (hopefully less), plastic grocery bags will be obsolete and we'll look back and wonder what took us so long to stop using those silly, harmful things. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but we're getting there.

This article is also a good one on the topic. I like this quote characterizing the root of the current plastic bag crisis: "The mentality in America is plastic bags come from plastic bag land," said Mastny, of the Worldwatch Institute. "We don't think about where they come from and where they are going."

U.S. moves down in environmental rankings

According to a recent international ranking of environmental performance for the nations of the world, the U.S. has slipped to 39th out of 149 countries and is at the bottom of the so-called "Group of 8" industrialized nations. Read more here.