Blog entries tagged with “open source”

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Paying at the Pump, in a Big Way - New York Times

Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare tells the story of the rabbit who naps during the middle of a race confident she can beat the turtle. She doesn't. The cost of diesel fuel in the US has risen five times in the last decade. There are plenty of losers, but who wins? Boat and barge travel. More efficient fuel burners than trucks, trains or lorries, barge business is booming. Slow travel wins.

Tycoon may ditch golf resort plan - Regen Daily Bulletin - Regen.net

Donald Trump once famously declared "make no little plans." If Trump were going to build a small scale golf course that respected the landscape and avoided pesticides, then maybe his plans for a new course in Aberdeenshire should be approved. But Trump does nothing by halves. The scale is wrong and the environment will suffer. For those reasons alone I hope the public enquiry sends Trump packing.

Is There Such a Thing as Sustainable Golf? - LIME

Creating a lush green fairway in an inappropriate landscape (e.g. Crete, Arizona, California) is environmentally unsustainable. Donald Trump wants to build a mega-course in golf's birthplace - Scotland. This article questions whether there is such a thing as a sustainable golf course.

Upton Sinclair, Now Playing on YouTube - New York Times

The assigned reading list in my high school English class included Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". An expose of the Chicago meatpacking industry written in 1906, this novel (combined with my mother's move to vegetarianism) changed everything for me. No meat, no animal testing, and against the industrialisation of animals.