. "The nation's oldest active ballpark may vend beer in corn-starch-based cups, serve local, organic food from concession stands, add solar panels, and even initiate a new tradition: a fifth-inning recycling stretch."
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Environment
offers an incredibly detailed which contain responses to the most common skeptical arguments about global warming. This could come in handy.
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The authors of have a . If you haven't read (and I suggest you do), this is a good introduction to their style of economic investigation and problem-solving. "[People] prefer a measurable risk to an immeasurable uncertainty. (This condition is known to economists as ambiguity aversion.) Could it be that nuclear energy, risks and all, is now seen as preferable to the uncertainties of global warming?"
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discusses the impact of human activities on physically altering the planet, requiring increasingly frequent redrawing of atlases. "Some scientists focused on global environmental change say it is no surprise that atlases, in essence, are becoming autobiographical, reflecting the reality that the physical Earth is increasingly what the human species makes of it."
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I just ordered a book entitled by Alan Weisman, an "enthralling tour of the world of tomorrow [which] explores what little will remain of ancient times while anticipating, often poetically, what a planet without us would be like."
The book and its author have been getting a lot of press lately, and not just because envisioning the future of the planet sans humanity is a fascinating topic for a book. Weisman even recently.
Even if you're not inclined to buy the book, has a lot of cool multimedia that you can mess around with, including two videos: the first is a video slideshow of New York City without humans over the course of 15,000 years (I am immediately thinking about ); and the second is an animation entitled .
Anyway, if you're interested in learning more about the book, . I hope to write a review when I am finished with it as well.
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Pork Barrel: Political metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents or campaign contributors. Green Pork: .
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