Posted by Kirk M on 18 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Environment
A new idea in cultivating to produce raw organic material for the production of biodiesel as is currently being tried using crops like soybeans and corn is now being demonstrated. The benefits of using algae are obvious as indicated by this excerpt form a news story from the Good News Network.
By cultivating algae as the [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 23 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Environment, The News
Look what happens when a New York Representative (Jose Serrano, Dem) receives $15 million in federal money to clean up the river. Built a beaver lodge and everything. And in the Bronx River?
This North American beaver was spotted Feb. 21, 2007, in the Bronx River, a once-filthy estuary that flows through New York City. It’s [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 02 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Long Meadow Farms Quilts
So what, you may ask is an Ecology Bag?
Well to be honest, it's a basic cloth bag a bit larger than than your standard grocery store plastic bag and holds about as many groceries as a standard size paper type bag. The reason it's called an Ecology bag is that it can be used in [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 27 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Environment, Life at home
I’m becoming of the mind that the New England area couldn’t work up a good winter nor’easter if they imported cold air directly from the arctic itself. God knows we had enough southern bred moisture in town these past few days. For 3 days now the meteorologists have been predicting a “major snow event” some [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 18 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: BackWoods tech, The News
Google blasts off with NASA on virtual flights By Adam Turner
Tuesday, 19 December 2006
Google Earth flyovers of the moon and Mars will be part of a NASA agreement with Google to make the space agency's wealth of information more easily available to the public.
Source: iTWire - Google blasts off with NASA [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 07 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: BackWoods tech, Environment
For those of you that might be thinking of turning your PC over to the so-called PC recyclers or think that it’s such a good idea, you might want to check out this National Geographic article on what actually is happening to some of these PC’s and other electronic equipment.
And for an overall picture [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 07 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Just Thinkin
One thing about living anywhere in northern New England, you have to find ways to offset the usual hardships of living and working in such a rugged environment. Although the Northernmost states of New England are well known for their scenic beauty no matter what the season (with the exception of mud season perhaps), the natives who [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 03 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Interesting Stuff
Back on May 23rd I wrote a short post about a group called Rebar that created a “park” like setting (complete with grass, a tree and a park bench) by “leasing” city space by feeding the parking meter of a paid parking space for couple of hours.
Before I went down to Boston for surgery, I [...] Read more »
