How much money (and time) does cycling to work actually save you? | Maxton Walker | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The potential savings made by not using public transport can often end up going towards bike maintenance and gear
...It also calculates that – given that I can get to work very fast on public transport – I spend four days a year extra travelling to and from work.

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#140) Andy Revkin, Jarod Lanier, and the Dehumanizing Elements of the Internet | The Benshi

ANDY REVKIN, SUPERHERO OF THE BLOGOSPHERE

The world of environmental blogging has been dealt a blow which is hopefully only temporary and quickly reversible. Andy Revkin, author of the NY Times blog, Dot Earth, my buddy (he was on the panel discussion of “Sizzle” at the 2008 Woods Hole Film Festival premiere) and longtime hero in the blogosphere (where heroes are scarce) had a stroke last Friday. Initial indications seemed to be that it wasn’t a stroke, only advance warnings (blurred vision), but judging from his comments now, it sounds like the doctors have deemed it an actual stroke. Which has left him (at least for the time being) slowed down in typing speed, though he’s in good enough shape to answer a couple of my emails, which is a HUGE relief.

High water, pipeline spill hurts Montana fly fishing industry | Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, North Dakota

HELENA, Mont. — Disappointed anglers are putting off their vacations this year with Montana’s blue-ribbon trout streams running higher and dirtier than they have in recent memory.

The murky water is the result of spring flooding and a torrential runoff still pouring off the mountains from a record winter snowpack. Water flows for many of the major rivers are at twice their normal rates or higher, churning up muck and mud that have made the water nearly opaque in some streams.

That’s muddied the outlook for a major tourism draw for Montana, with cancellations running as high as 80 percent in parts of the state so far this year.