Organic Matter - Blogging the environmentA personal blog for the environmentally minded.Some YouTube Guy's Wager- December 21, 2007 This is a pretty interesting video (I can't figure out how to embed in Drupal) featuring an examination of the risksrewards of action on climate change. Some of you will feel a nostalgic tingling when he busts out the grid on the whiteboard. That's because his analysis is an adaptation Pascal's wager, which you probably heard of back in your college philosophy class. I think that the idea of choosing between columns rather than gambling on rows is valuable, but the author's wager is hardly...http://www.organicmatter.net/node/198 Divorce is the New Global Warming- December 4, 2007 How do you not click on this headline WANT TO GO GREEN STAY MARRIED Divorced Households Have Negative Impact on Environment, Study Finds The reason is simple it's all about efficiency, says Jianguo Liu, lead author of the study who has the Rachel Carson chair in ecological sustainability at the university's department of fisheries and wildlife. "In the divorced households, the number of people is smaller than in married households," Liu told ABCNEWS.com. "The resource efficiency used per...http://www.organicmatter.net/node/197 |