gotta love space photography

by J
This is an afterimage (from LiveScience.com) of the affects of "bottom trawling" a.k.a. dragging giant steel nets across the ocean floor to catch fish. As that linked article to TreeHugger was saying, (or if you even follow that through to the BBC news article) New Zealand and some other South Pacific countries came to an agreement that they must research an area and be sure there is no "marine ecosystem at risk" before bottom trawling.

Well isn't that nice of them, picking which ecosystems are at risk and which aren't. If you ask me, its just one more UN agreement falling short of its original intent. And if you think the
fishers who livelihoods are made doing this are going to stop... well, you've got more faith than I do.

something else to make me want to cry for our future.

by J

Just when you thought there weren't enough enviromental problems with earth's eco system, GARBAGE CONTINENTS! It makes me wonder at the complete lack of responsibility amongst the human population. I hate to add another check to the list of reasons why our species deserves to choke to death but, what's more appropriate than asphixiation via our own refuse?

The article was over at the Daily Galaxy.

world car free day

by J

Crazy coincidence, the day we transferred the title to our car was also World Car Free Day! I've been riding my old Schwinn since and have already felt much healthier for it. Exercise, who knew?