Adventures in Onionism

"Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies 'could provide half of global carbon target'" http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/19/fossil-fuel-subsidies-carbon-target "Dirty Money The astonishing new data showing that simply eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies could achieve half the world's carbon reduction goals." http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/01/fossil_fuel_subsidies_and_global_warming_we_could_cut_the_climate_change_problem_in_half_simply_by_abolishing_inefficient_fossil_fuel_subsidies_.html Hmmm...Well, now that I've actually read more than the headlines, this is less exciting/aggravating than when I thought it was all due to US tax breaks for Exxon instead of consumption subsidies in Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Iran. But seriously, Exxon should still have to pay taxes in the US.

Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo . I heart California.

A nice music video by Alex Ebert (nom de guerre Edward Sharpe): Let's Win! from Alexander on Vimeo . [h/t AA] Also, An article by Tim about how the climate justice movement can succeed, with which I agree. Liberals need longer knives.

you can find these in Kenya.

I could do the circle thing all day long. I'm experimenting with QuickTime's built-in save-for-web function. Given my limited bandwidth and the compression that happens on facebook and youtube regardless, what's the best setting? Do these videos load, and if so, how grainy are they? UPDATE: I guess Blogger doesn't recognize .m4v videos when included as attachments in e-mails to post, so I have to do this via the web interface.

The spacing on the job website may be atrocious, but the job will not be. Tell your Stata-programming whiz-kid do-gooder recent college grad friends. http://www.poverty-action.org/getinvolved/jobs/Africa/IPAKenya100587

These guys paddled around Ellesmere island. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/sports/arctic-adventure-a-1500-mile-trip-by-sea-kayak.html Sounds pretty cool, but it's still not as awesome as Jennifer Pharr Davis (a woman, if that wasn't obvious) setting the overall Appalachian Trail speed record, and doing it hiking, not running. So click here and vote for her for NatGeo's Adventurer of the Year. The 18th is the last day to vote. http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/adventurers-of-the-year/2012/