Happy Earth Day to Everyone

[rthomas]

Do something green today!

Some ideas: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html


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[Lavabe]

Do something green today!

Some ideas: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html


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Marta'd to work today.
Bought CFC flood lamps for our house.
Both pay off fairly quickly.

Cheers,
Lavabe

[hurleyfor3]

I didn't have any kids.

[EarlJam]

Happy Earth day to you!
Happy Earth day to you!

Not sure how old the Earth is today, but in celebration, I burned a half-acre of Earth's natural "candles" - trees - to celebrate its big day.

HAPPY EARTH DAY, EARTH!

-EarthJam

[bdh21]

Happy Earth day to you!
Happy Earth day to you!

Not sure how old the Earth is today, but in celebration, I burned a half-acre of Earth's natural "candles" - trees - to celebrate its big day.

HAPPY EARTH DAY, EARTH!

-EarthJam

There are 610 Gigatons of carbon in the terrestrial vegetation.

Therefore there is 1.22x10^15 pounds of carbon in terrestrial vegetation.

If a match weighs 2 ounces, then there are 9.76x10^15 matches-worth of carbon in the world's vegetation.

If the earth is 4.5x10^9 years old, then you'd only need to burn 4.5x10^9 matches to celebrate its birth.
That would amount to burning 0.0000461% of the world's vegetation worth of matches to celebrate.

Which, assuming 116,000,000 sq. km of non-arid land globally, would be like burning 53 km^2 of vegetation. Which is just about burning half of the city of Durham.

So Earljam, If you burn down half of Durham today, you'll have a legitimate excuse.

[hc5duke]

There are 610 Gigatons of carbon in the terrestrial vegetation.

Therefore there is 1.22x10^15 pounds of carbon in terrestrial vegetation.

If a match weighs 2 ounces, then there are 9.76x10^15 matches-worth of carbon in the world's vegetation.

If the earth is 4.5x10^9 years old, then you'd only need to burn 4.5x10^9 matches to celebrate its birth.
That would amount to burning 0.0000461% of the world's vegetation worth of matches to celebrate.

Which, assuming 116,000,000 sq. km of non-arid land globally, would be like burning 53 km^2 of vegetation. Which is just about burning half of the city of Durham.

So Earljam, If you burn down half of Durham today, you'll have a legitimate excuse.

Actually Chapel Hill is 51.3kmkm, so why not just burn down all of Chapel Hill? Also, what's with going from pounds to kilometers?

I drive a car that gets 12mpg; I have a desktop and a laptop, both of which will be running all day; I'm pretty sure one of our bathrooms leak; my wife is in the process of making a carbon producing monster; I use an elliptical machine at the gym instead of running outside. <-- horrible person. Though I do eat more beef than I really should, maybe I won't live as long... so I got that going for me, which is nice.

[Channing]

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/i-love-the-world/

I love the world . . . boomdiada boomdiada boomdiada boom.