Germanic Hoards | GlobalWarming.org

CFLs will surely get more affordable and provide better quality light. In the meantime, however, it seems that the Germans, Austrians and Hungarians have decided that, even if a German’s home is not his castle, it deserves to be as well lit as possible.

[Undead NY Times blogger recalls frolicking in the DDT] - Cornelia Dean - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

A report this week in the journal Nature is taking me back to my childhood summers in New Jersey, where evenings were often marked by the appearance of a slow-moving Jeep towing a battered cart. A machine, about the size of a lawn mower, sat on the cart, spewing a whitish mist — DDT.
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My friends and I would dash along behind the jeep, running in and out of the gassy cloud, breathing in the strong odor of the insecticide as droplets condensed on our clothes and skin. As far as I know, this experience left no ill effects, except a persistent skepticism about claims that exposure to this, that or the other chemical is inevitably a health disaster.

Media Credentials - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Unless he passed some mail-order class of the “Draw Tippy” variety on matchbooks of yore, Pachauri remains an economist and a former railway engineer.