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This weekend I saw No Impact Man, which I recommend.  I thought it was very interesting and I learned quite a few things from it that I didn’t know about.   One of these things is that the meat industry is a larger cause of greenhouse gases (global warming) than all the cars, planes, and ships in the world, combined.  Most of this is from the farming of cows.

In response, I’m further reducing my beef intake by 50%, going from eating a burger/beef product once a week, to once every other week.  That puts me down to 25 burgers/beef bowls per year.  That sounds appropriate anyway as beef is not healthy.

Check this out if you want your mind blown by more crazy stats about livestock and the environment, such as:

If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the U.S. was consumed directly by people, the number who could be fed is nearly 800 million.

is being built!!… in China :|  COME ON AMERICA!!!, we can’t just depend on Google for everything.  Remember when we used to be cutting edge? *sigh*

Anyway, it’ll cost China $5 billion.  /me gets out his pencil and puts on his elementary-school-student math hat:  Now, $5 billion to power 3 million homes.  That’s about $1.7 billion for one million homes.  America has about 110 million homes.  110 times 1.7 billion equals $187 billion…

…so, that would cost us $187 billion to do for all our homes.  The war in Iraq wasted $700 billion.  So, if we spent only 25% of that money on solar power here in the US, we’d have every single home powered for free.  Figure we use more electricity than the average Chinese home, and that construction costs are higher here, maybe that’ll push it to 50% or 75% of the cost of the Iraq war?  Hell, take that other 25% and start powering apartments and businesses since we’re done with homes, and since we’re still spending money on Iraq, maybe by the time that’s all done and paid for we could have had free infinite power for the entire country.  Are we running out of money to power everything in my math here?  Hmmm.. I have those Afghanistan war costs somewhere here…

Oh and by the way, this would reduce our carbon footprint by about a gazillion times!  Maybe we could all have electric cars, and never have to pay for the energy to run them - even less pollution!  You might not even mind paying extra for them, because you’d NEVER EVER HAVE TO BUY ENERGY TO USE THEM!!  The lord and earth would love it and say

Finally, they’ve not only seen the light, but they’ve used it!

The second coming of Jesus Christ might even occur due to such delight.  He might be like “Whattup, I know some of you thought I was supposed to come back when stuff was real bad or whatever, but meh, I had to use it now instead cause I just had to personally give props.  Word!” *poof*

But NO, we couldn’t possibly spend that much money on that!!  Are you crazy?

*rolls eyes*

I have a feeling that “we couldn’t even possibly spend that much money on it” even if there were no war.

Anyway go ahead China, let the clowning begin.  I’ve got my smile on and my eyes closed, ready for that pie in the face…

Oh for the love of God.  Save watching this video for when you are already in a bad mood or sad.  Viewer discretion advised.

Via TreeHugger.

In case you haven’t seen this, check it out:

They also have a map there of the area required to power the whole world by wind.

Oh, the Lord must be pissed.

So they like to claim that they are pretty green, and it’s true that they’ve done some good stuff with reducing the size of their packaging and the materials they use in their computers.  I like that you can buy stuff at the store and just have the receipt emailed to you.  And they are certainly much better than those jackasses in Redmond with their packaging (PLASTIC, and a puzzle just to open, they totally played into their stereotype with that one… unbelievable).  But anyway, back to Apple, something irked me not too long ago.

I wanted to upgrade my iLife to the new version. I was ready to buy it and download it, you know, like as if I lived in the 21st century. Guess what, you can’t. You have to either order it online, or go to the store and pick it up. Now, don’t give me any file size bullshit. If I can buy and download the entire 9GB Adobe CS, then Apple, the much richer company, can handle offering an iLife download.

I had called them to verify that I can’t buy/download it online, and the lady on the phone indeed said that this was not an option. I asked her why not, because then lots of people will have to waste gas going to the store to get it and it’s a waste of packaging. Her response was that I can order it online and have it shipped to me. To which I did a “arrgghhh, but that’s even more of a waste because there’s gonna be an extra box around it, plus shipping it all over the country.” To which she giggled(!), agreed, and said that hopefully they’ll have a download option in the future. WTF Apple!?

This all came rushing back to me after I read about this ridiculousness.

/me does his best sarcastic sorry-sounding Apple voice:

<Apple> oh… but… what about this…?

<Joz> Not bad, but COME ON!!

and you think your garbage is overflowing? (via digg)

Meant to post this a few weeks back.  You guys suck.  You know who you are, and you suck.

Aww helllllll yeah!!  The article is great, too:

Biggest U.S. tax hike on tobacco takes effect

It’s election day yet again!  For all you Angelinos, please vote yes on Proposition B - let’s get 400MW of solar energy going!

It’s pathetic, we live in Southern California and have the greatest source of energy known to man shining in our faces all day every day, and instead we burn fossil fucking fuels!?  If I was the lord I’d be so offended.  Private industry has managed to produce 14 megawatts of solar in the last 10 years.  Let’s create this 400 megawatts in 5 years.  Put solar panels on roofs of all of our downtown buildings and other rooftops, let’s show America what’s up.  LADWP FTW!!!