The Blackboard

The Green Energy Reporter has posed an interview of Andy Revkin discussing his reflections on Copenhagen along with his ideas about possible successful paths toward lowering emissions.
One interesting (to me) QA is:
GER: Did you get a new sense of hope from Copenhagen?
AR: I don’t think, in the end, that’s where you’re going to [...]

As a knitter, I see lots of Bamboo yarns appearing on store shelves. Some of them looks attractive; to show you, I selected an ad from Amazon showing a yarn that could be used to knit a nice sweater, vest or possibly a cozy looking hat.
These bamboo yarns are frequently marketed as ecofriendly. [...]

This post is a mix of blatant commercialism and a request for advice. The two links are from an affiliate program (i.e. blatant commercialism). The advice request is: Do any of you readers any experience with LED lighting? I’d like to replace light fixtures in our guest bedroom, and outside. We [...]

From “The Local” in Sweden:

The bodies of thousands of rabbits culled every year from the parks in Stockholm’s Kungsholmen neighbourhood are being used to fuel a heating plant in central Sweden.
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But rather than simply disposing of the dead rabbits, the city instead froze them for eventual transport to a special heating plant in Karlskoga in [...]