Sunday, March 23, 2003
Statistical Pings.
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 9:01:52 PM -
"[T]he United States spends more on trash bags than 90 other countries spend on everything. In other words, the receptacles of our waste cost more than all of the goods consumed by nearly half of the world's nations." [Fast Company]
"There are nearly 5 million households in America with a net worth of at least $1 million." [Fast Company]
The number of appellate decisions ordered depublished by the California Supreme Court in 2001-02 was at a 20-year low of 23. The high water mark for the period was 1983-84, with 154. [Administrative Office of the California Courts]
[Bag and Baggage] - Posted by Richard Chlopan - 9:01:52 PM -
Mountain Fix © 2003, John H. Farr This picture is from Thursday morning. I never get tired of taking pictures of Taos Mountain because it's different every time. I also dig it because it belongs to the Indians. So does all the land in the foreground, for that matter. Something in me really likes that, probably because the Pueblo won't ever build a subdivision there. Okay, sure, another casino maybe, but let's count our blessings while we can.
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 8:59:39 PM -
The New York Times Editorial/Op-ed One Subsidy Too Many [requires 'free' registration]. "Americans are depleting their water supplies, especially their once-vast underground aquifers, at a rapid pace. Yet this alarming fact has failed to register with influential segments of the population, including developers who keep building unsustainable subdivisions and farmers who keep growing unsustainable crops. A case in point are the rice growers of Arkansas, who are on the brink of pumping one of the state's biggest aquifers dry and are now imploring the federal government to bail them [snowdeal.org | conflux]
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 8:40:30 PM -
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 8:40:30 PM -
