one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
September 19 2007
Little efforts do not big changes make“it is a serious distortion to imply, as the top ten lists usually do, that there is any equivalence between these lifestyle preferences and the serious decisions that really reduce emissions”
August 13 2007
Plastic bags are killing us“Every year, Americans throw away some 100 billion plastic bags after they've been used to transport a prescription home from the drugstore or a quart of milk from the grocery store. It's equivalent to dumping nearly 12 million barrels of oil.”
June 16 2007
The truth about recycling.
May 02 2007
Steve Jobs responds to the Greenpeace campaign against Apple.
March 26 2007
More dust being swept under the carpet: a large part of the waste that we all separate for recycling is shipped off to the far east where little is known about how or if it is recycled.
February 22 2007
Sustainable clubbing in Rotterdam“A nightclub uses 150 times the energy of an average household and produces around 12,000 litres of glass to recycle from bottles and glasses each weekend”
July 14 2006
An interesting view on some of the paradoxes of recycling. I can’t say I agree with all of it, but there are extremely valid points in there, especially on the feel-good factor as a substitute for real sacrifice.
May 23 2006
Forget about litter. Forget about recycling. Get political.