Treenex

Save The World, Get Off The Meds

treenex — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:02:28 +0000

My education includes, but is not limited to, degrees in Paramedic, Health Science, Exercise Physiology and Herbal Medicine. And NO, I’m not a professional student! All of the degrees occurred within a few years of each other. So naturally, I tend to look at the environmental impacts of items most people don’t. Medications is one I’ve been researching for a number of years, waiting for the data to emerge. Alas, it hasn’t! I firmly believe the pharmaceutical companies have no desire for the general public to know exactly what damage they cause the earth with the research, development and manufacture of all their “medications”.

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Your House Sucks (Outside Air at Least)

treenex — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:17:45 +0000

I will try to spare you from too much cheerleading about how great the green building movement is. Nor will I overly promote my consulting company Baosol and how useful our services are. I will send you these newsletters in the spirit of entertainment, accuracy, and importance. Just a word of warning though, I find science to be very entertaining as I’ll start with a building science story.

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Artificial Wetlands For Wastewater Processing (pt. 2)

treenex — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:06:17 +0000

This is the second part of post “Artificial Wetlands For Wastewater Processing”. The first part is here.

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Artificial Wetlands For Wastewater Processing (pt. 1)

treenex — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:54:24 +0000

This isn’t one of my shorter pieces, so beware! I wrote a version of this to send to my state assembly woman and ended up sending it to a number of local town officials as well as the local university.

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Introduction

treenex — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:09:46 +0000

Hello everyone! I’m new in town, so I thought a very quick introduction would be a good thing. I live in upstate NY – which is essentially anything north of NYC. That being said, I’m just south of Syracuse – obviously not very far upstate.

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What is Sustainable Building?

treenex — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:01:36 +0000

This is something I wrote a little while ago but am posting it because I still like it:

What is sustainable?

The “green” building movement is maturing quickly and has created a tremendous amount of dialog. People of many disciplines and backgrounds are engaging with what green building means.
With this in mind, it seems good to go back to some basic principles, before jumping into what sometimes may seem like the latest craze.

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Buy Sunscreen or Build an Igloo?

treenex — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:41:30 +0000

In case you‘re too young to remember (wish I was), there was a lot of talk about global cooling, not warming, going around in the ‘70s.

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Are There Limits to Being Green?

treenex — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:27:13 +0000

Maybe There Should Be…

I’m here, so I’m obviously not apathetic to environmental issues, though I don’t obsess over them (no offense, Juliette). I’m no eco-scholar, I’m an environorm through and through. But I finished college, I read a few articles now and then, and just because I don’t get carded anymore doesn’t mean my hominine cerebral cortex has turned to mush. And I simply can’t hold back a tiny snicker when I hear about the lengths some people will go to wipe out even a miniscule trace of a carbon footprint.

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The Sea Level Rise Mystery

treenex — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:07:56 +0000

Twenty inches per decade — that’s the estimate of how rapidly the oceans rose in the last interglacial period about 121,000 years ago, in research appearing in Nature. That’s eight feet over 50 years, in a world just 2°C warmer than we are today.

Not good. Read more on official Treenex.com blog.

Larry Burns: Reinventing the car

treenex — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:33:37 +0000

For today’s inspiration check this amazing speech from General Motors veep Larry Burns. He previews cool next-gen car design: sleek, customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen — and pump energy back into the electrical grid when they’re idle. Ideal for Treenexers.

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