by Rob Cottingham | Jun 11, 2008 | Environment
Google’s Sergey Brin is headed to space, (CBC) (CNN) and just the deposit on his ticket will set him back $5 million. But that’s chicken feed. It’s the carbon offsets that’ll really cost him. (Seriously, has anyone done the math on what that... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 18, 2008 | Environment
When I was growing up, my family’s gas-powered lawn mower never seemed like an especially good idea to me. Gasoline invariably sloshed everywhere when I was filling it, and it belched acrid smoke while deafening anyone reckless enough to be outside in our yard... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 31, 2007 | Environment
There’s this French initiative that has caught on well beyond the country’s borders: turning off our lights for five minutes in the evening on Thursday, February 1st. (That’s 10:55 am to 11:00 am our time here in B.C.)It’s meant to draw... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 2, 2006 | Online Community, Politics, Technology
These past few weeks have been awkward ones for the company that hosts my blog, DreamHost. Lengthy outages have plagued its users, and just as one problem was solved, another one popped up. You can read the whole sordid tale here, wherein DreamHost – to their... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 26, 2006 | Communicating, Politics
They aren’t just nailing car manufacturers any more; they’re trying to make owning the buggers socially unacceptable.
