Our Carbon Emissions Were Down in 2009 – GOOD Blog – GOOD – StumbleUpon.

The common counter point to the climate change response with green technology is that it will kill economic growth. While it appears that the recent recession had something to do with this cut in carbon emissions whereby high fossil fuel prices caused people to cut back on consumption, the energy conservation hasn’t stopped economic growth. It has made businesses and individuals act more efficiently. We cut carbon as we rebuilt and strengthened the economy.

Another major factor in cutting the carbon was the major growth in renewable energy, particularly wind power, over the past several years. It appears that the only part of the economy that will not grow in the green future is the fossil fuel sector. Can you imagine what we could do if we strategically retooled for sustainable growth?

So keep changing those light bulbs, keep recycling, and keep walking and biking to work. Because it is working. And that’s great news, no matter if you work in facts or beliefs.

Folks in Capitol Hill really love their neighborhood. Whether it’s touting the greatness of Eastern Market or raving about the recent influx of restaurants to the area, there is a lot of pride to be found among the inhabitants of the Hill. But while the trendy and family-friendly enclave is a happening place to live now, it wasn’t always that way. Ten or so years ago, sections of the Hill were no-go zones for house hunting and even walking at night.

“Where I live now couldn’t possibly be more safe,” said Nichole Remmert, a freelance fundraising development and events consultant who lives in the Lincoln Park area. “I wouldn’t have lived there in 1994. Whatever people’s personal thoughts on gentrification, there has been a decrease in crime.”

Remmert is one of several faithful Hill residents who write for the blog the Hill Is Home, which was founded by Kate McFadden last spring. Each of the contributors has seen the changes that have come to the area and are passionate about the neighborhood in which they live.

McFadden started thehillishome.com after being laid off from her job at AARP. She was looking to get some fresh writing clips and decided to do that by fulfilling a need she saw in the community. While other neighborhoods had established blogs, such as the Prince of Petworth and New Columbia Heights, Capitol Hill did not. So McFadden decided to start one.

via Bloggers Chronicle Neighborhood’s Changes – Roll Call.

The old design of the blog dated back to the original Movable Type deployment and was ported to Wordpress.

Welcome back and welcome to the new design. With a new year and new changes, it was time to update the look and feel of my personal site.

The original design dates back to when I first moved my site from static html to a blog many, many years ago. The first blogware I used was Movable Type, and I ported that design with a few updates when I migrated the site to Wordpress a few years ago.

The original design implemented transparent png backgrounds and css before many browsers supported them (booo Internet Exporer). While it was a fairly cutting edge design then, it has felt dated to me for some time now. I also felt that it was not easy to read. I had been trying in vain to get crestock’s freebie image plugin to work, and finally decided to try to do a clean wordpress install to get it up and running. With that successful, I imported the old blog’s export file and cut the domain over. At that point, I figured a new skin was in order.

This new rollout uses the 3COL-RDMBAN RR Theme by Eric Crooks, and I’m pretty happy with it after a few minor modifications. I was tempted to use thesis or a framework and roll my own again, but in the end, I wanted to get back to working and not grind over the redesign. I chose the theme based on layout and my love for the orange and grey palate. It felt like a good fit with the old circuit design and color scheme in the old color scheme. With some stock photo searching for a few new abstract circuit images to mix into the rotating banner and quick slicing, I was ready to go with only a light effort.

Anyway, hope it is easier to read – the whole point – and visually pleasing. Thanks for any input.

LS/ RDP/ DDDD

Red Devils reign | jconline.com | Journal and Courier.

Picasa Web Albums – NavalLodge4 – Back to School Fun Fair.

via Macsimum News – Twitter Vote Report wins Golden Dot Award.

Lost Remote: The Business of Journalism — Welcome to the new Lost Remote.

I encourage everyone to keep track of it. Cory is one of the brightest in the business and will have his eye on good things to know.

So obviously, this is possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen in a very long time.

LEGO iMac G4 with working LCD – Boing Boing Gadgets.

Company Says It’s Found 1744 Wreck of Famed British Warship – NYTimes.com.

I blogged a strong opinion piece on the media coverage of treasure hunting and shipwreck salvage companies yesterday over at LostRemote and received a barrage of negative comments and flames in my e-mail.

I stick to my guns. Treasure hunting is ethically incompatable with archaeology. Archaeologists do not sell recovered artifacts. Period. End of story. Odyssey is trying to work with governments and investors and strike a new business model and Gregg Stemm is out working on “ethical models” and standards for shipwreck salvors, but this simple, clear point cannot be worked around.

I call all major media to recognize the similarities between driving a bulldozer into an Indian mound and looting the artifacts to propwashing a shipwreck and selling the coins. Just because the wreck lies underwater, there is no difference: an archaeologically significant site is a site, wet or dry. Treasure hunting is illegal on land in every civilized country in the world. The same standards must apply to underwater cultural heritage.

As keepers and disseminators of information, it is our job to show this controversy in every piece of coverage objectively regardless of personal viewpoints – such as my very strong bias. There should be no article written or show broadcast about treasure hunters that does not address this massive issue.

Glorifying treasure hunting in media is the status quo, and readers and viewers are completely unaware of the destruction inherent in the process and how it impacts them. Instead, they think that treasure hunting is credible archaeology and that if they pursued a career in the field, they too could get rich one day if they hit the mother lode.

i stuck a few more pics in my flickr account.

they’d dressed the market and 7th street to look like amsterdam, according to the reliable sources chat at WaPo the film is ‘Body of Lies’

Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.: Submitting early … what are they filming over at Eastern Market this week? Anyone famous we should keep an eye out for?

Amy Argetsinger: I do believe that this marks the start of the filming of “Body of Lies,” based on the book by our colleague David Ignatius and starring Russell Crowe and Leo di Caprio, so keep your eyes open. We’ll most likely have an item on this in tomorrow’s paper.

so look in the paper tomorrow. if we get one, on our doorstep, where it is supposed to be.