If you’re like us, the first thing that comes to mind when you think “environmentally friendly” may not be a tire manufacturer. However, that may soon change if your opinion is based upon Japan’s Yokohama. Their plan proposes some 25 acres of new forest across 18 of their worldwide facilities (that’s 500,000 […]

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In the local Richmond paper, on the front page it has a heartening graph showing that conservation is the best alternative energy.
For January, February, March and April, there were 461 million vehicle miles that were NOT driven as compared to 2007 in the state of Virginia. And that includes a extra day in February. […]

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I have had to do a lot of traveling lately for my consulting job.
I’ve gained weight.
All of that restaurant eating: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Sometimes there would be dessert, sometimes an appetizer, sometimes a bottle of wine. What the heck, someone else was paying.
So I ate more than I usually would because someone […]

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How do we ever find out what the real costs are?

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Early in July we published a blog about the link between obesity and global warming. A new study called A Silver Lining? The Connection between Gas Prices and Obesity by Charles Courtemanche from the University of Washington in St. Louis claims that when petrol prices have risen in the US, obesity has shown a corresponding […]

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