Friday, December 14th, 2012
Well, Going Greeners, it’s that time of year when we Go Green and Red. This is the last official WhatTheyThink publishing day until Jan. 7, and your beleaguered blogger will be on holiday, as well, with minimal Internet access. There will likely be some sporadic, catch-as-catch-can posting, but we will ...Friday, December 14th, 2012
For your Friday lunchtime...enjoyment? Seems some catfish in southern France have taken their name a bit too literally. Researchers have found a group of European catfish (Silurus glanis)—at sizes of up to 1.5 meters long, Europe’s largest freshwater fish—living in the River Tarn that have somehow learned to catch pigeons, adopting ...Thursday, December 13th, 2012
A little off-topic here (surprise!) but these things fascinate me. Anyone unfortunate enough to have stayed awake through any of the presentations I made in the latter portion of the 2000s knows how fond I am of author/futurist Vernor Vinge and his 2007 novel Rainbows End, set in 2025. It describes ...Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
Ah, the telephone. My 78-year-old aunt still has her old, 1960s-era wall-mounted rotary-dial Bakelite phone and man does it have the best sound quality ever, far better than any cell or even landline phone made these days. Naturally, she tells my mother, the phone company (I don’t know which one) ...Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
The Government Printing Office become the latest facility to achieve certification by the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP). The GPO is of course responsible for producing all the documents and other materials for all branches of the Federal Government. Says the GPO, in a press release: SGP Certification is important to ...Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
17 creative ways to reuse your phone book (Mother Nature Network) UN Climate Talks Fail to Reach Funding Agreements as Deadline Looms (Environmental Leader) and Climate Talks Yield Commitment to Ambitious, but Unclear, Actions (New York Times) and Another Disappointing Climate Meeting Draws to a Close (Mother Jones) 10 of the best ...Monday, December 10th, 2012
When I was a kid in the 1970s, I was amazed (because it was the 70s, the suburbs, and we were all easily captivated by small, shiny objects) when Papermate introduced the original Erasermate, a ballpoint pen that had ink that could be erased. (Ink! That can be erased!) It ...Monday, December 10th, 2012
WhatTheyThink’s Going Green has joined forces with Two Sides to help address the “perceptions” that paper destroys forests, that electronic media are “greener” than print and paper, and that recycling is the solution to all environmental ills. In a post last week, I mentioned the Re: Thinking Consumption: Consumers and the ...Thursday, December 6th, 2012
One of the categories in our annual WhatTheyThink Environmental Innovation Awards is “Sustainability and Your Community,” which we include to recognize the positive impacts that companies—in our case, printing and publishing companies—can have on the communities in which they are located. Sustainability is not just about the efforts of the ...Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Last week I happened to briefly post on The Facebook Machine about a rollable portable keyboard for iPhones, which I thought was kind of cool, and I was roundly chastised (as I usually am, for one reason or another, not always wrongly) for discussing keyboards in this age of Siri ...
