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Normally, by this time of year, when the global warming isn’t quite so pronounced, we’ve already crafted entire armies and cities out of snow, filling vacant lots and parks with entire new communities of snow people. Alas, this year it would appear that our beloved snow visitors are staying close to home, so we haven’t [...]

Even two years ago, we had a very real, very tangible anxiety related to a crisis with spectacularly disastrous implications. Global warming, it seemed, was threatening us with tornadoes and hurricanes, tidal waves, desertification, snowstorms and heat waves. Before that we had terrorism, Y2K and the great nuclear fears of the Cold War. Our current [...]

In case you were wondering how we were planning on averting total ecological disaster and environmental collapse, TreeHugger has the answer. 5 answers in fact. And although a couple of them are variations on familiar technologies, for the most part it’s all news to us.
Like dispatchable wind power, which sounds vaguely threatening, but basically amounts [...]

We’ve been wearing a big smile since yesterday afternoon, when someone tipped us to the news that GM will either look to sell or discontinue their Hummer brand. Funnily enough, when we brainstormed some months ago possible positive outcomes of the New Depression, this was one of the events we predicted: the demise of pointlessly [...]

CNN compiled a list of places around the world worth seeing before global warming ruins them forever. From the descriptions, however, it could also read “5 Places to See Global Warming In Action.”
Come see the most beautiful places in the world disintegrate before your very eyes.
Go To List: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/02/17/global.warming.travel/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

A recent Apartment Therapy listicle suggested that in order to keep warm we should put some carpets and rugs down so we don’t have to walk on the icy floors. “Perhaps,” we thought, “but aren’t most rugs and carpets astonishingly boring?” Rather than post that comment to Apartment Therapy we went looking for inventive carpets [...]

Call it the backlash against the backlash: after heaping wild hopes on president-elect Obama, and then turning around and professing in a disenchanted manner that he’ll invariably disappoint us, we’re now back to piling on the starry-eyed expectations.
That said, here at Listicles we prefer unreasonable expectations to presumed disappointment, in which spirit we pass along [...]

The devout defenders of democracy (often by way of satire) over at Wonkette entered the fray of blogs posting Bush retrospectives last night with their rebuttal to a non-satirical Weekly Standard piece entitled “Bush’s Achievements: Ten things the president got right.”
Wonkette and The Weekly Standard highlight the same ten Bush policy points, but for obvious [...]