I should have mentioned that last week and this week I'm working on a limited hour basis, so the updates are going to be coming a little fewer and further between than you're used to. That being said, it is with a happy heart and a full smile that I can report the dissolution of the relationship between Earth Day Network and TruGreen -- the largest lawn care (i.e. pesticide) company in the country.

I was walking around downtown chicago last week, and I kept seeing these signs on buses. Initially, I thought, 'crickey, now 'earth day' is down to 'earth hour' and sort of did a grumpy face.

This week I've been reading 'Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity' by Anne Elizabeth Moore (you can check see more about that book here), a book that delves into the co-option of the DIY subculture by marketers/advertising folk. Think skate punks tacitly endorsing Nike, or Jones Soda, and you've got the idea.

It's pretty great to see that Russia is getting their act together on the polar bear. We'll see what it actually means, obviously, but it's a good start the President Putin is talking to the Russian Geographical Society about the issue.

Over at the Discover Channel, this nice-seeming guy (Kieran Mulvaney) has done a solidly in depth set of articles called "Climate Myths & Questions". While I haven't read and digested it all, at the outset, it seems pretty good, and is focused on the science of what's going on more than the politics of how to fix it. So that should be good, right?

Like most people in my generation, I love Google. I'm sure there are things to dislike about them, but frankly, I don't care. I think Google's great.

All day, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship has been tweeting about this. An article in some weird online corner that talks about the lawsuits us crazy greens bring against the federal government -- and how it's cost taxpayers $37 million.

President Obama's EPA is continuing to lag on making a decision on the largest mountaintop removal mining project in West Virginia.

It's funny how one article in the WSJ is enough send me off my rocker for the day. You see, they talk about two interesting things. First off, that the federal government has officially announced plans to dump the nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada -- a true political hot potato over the last ten years.

There was a little piece in the New York Times recently, about how there are likely thousands of drums of nuclear waste buried in Utah that violate the standard for low-level nuclear radioactivity set out in state standards.