This past summer I purchased a pack of those highfalutin energy saving light bulbs to give them a try. Over the weekend one of the office bulbs finally popped and I figured we could just change both of them. We get the $8 light bulbs in, replace the light cover, and when we flipped the [...]

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Today is the 21st and is also the deadline I imposed upon myself for my honor’s thesis. Did I meet my deadline? Sort of. Technically, not really. I’m okay with this. My thesis stands at roughly 30 pages and I’ve still got the concluding sections to write up into something resembling an actual research thesis [...]

And my camera: I’ve upgraded my 256MB card to this 1GB Crucial card, which The Partner snagged for only $25. I can now take over 1,100 photos in one go. Awesome.

Rising consumption of natural resources means that humans began “eating the planet” on 9 October, a study suggests. The date symbolised the day of the year when people’s demands exceeded the Earth’s ability to supply resources and absorb the demands placed upon it. The figures’ authors said the world first “ecological debt day” fell on [...]