I’m attending a forum on IT Government Leadership learning about the NextGen program from the FAA. This billion dollar program is modernizing our airline transportation through GPS, weather forecasting, digitizing the analog, and much much more.
The environmental impact of this program primarily concerns fuel use. Doing so though updating and simplifying flight routes, allowing for glide paths to landings (instead of stop-n-go). The net benefit should mean lower fuel costs for airlines, maybe lower ticket prices, and definitely less fuel use. This picture highlights the expected fuel and time savings …

Hello Everyone. As the weather cools down the shopping season is heating up. This weekend my family and I began the “what do you want” questioneering process, only to find that we weren’t that into it.
Something has changed for us and, thanks to the brilliant and kind heart of my brother Spencer, we are foregoing all but the mightiest of gifts in favor of our favorite charities.
So, without further ado, I let him explain in his own words. The email I just received:
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Hey Everyone, Greetings and Happily Holidays to …

So I posted this comment on twitter as robotchampion:
@gavinNewsom in San Francsico, signs first ever compost mandate, requires food scraps be gathered for composting. – http://tr.im/qeQJ
And got this response in Facebook:
“Nothing like building global harmony through state coercion!”
Now this gets me going. In my journeys through A Clean Life one thing keeps hitting me smack in the head. Our environmental problems come from us, the people.
You can’t blame the big companies anymore. You can’t blame the government anymore. There is nothing left to blame and that means we are the …

Every couple of Sundays I put out a question for my friends on twitter. I ask them to update me on their trash habits and what they do for the environment. Below is my query from June 7 and here is one from May 10
The Query
robotchampion:

Do u remember #acleanlife sundays? – http://www.greensalmanac.com/?p=138 – last time 6 people and myself responded…lets go for seven!!
#acleanlife sundays – I’m interested in ur trash habits, share one thing u do for environment..reduce-reuse-recycle. Send w/ #acleanlife tag

The Answers
bindr we always use our made-from-recycled-material bags …

On Sunday, May 10, I put out a call for my friends on twitter. I asked them to share their trash habits and what they do for the environment. Here are the results:
The Query
robotchampion: Friends, I’m interested in ur trash habits, share one thing u do for environment..reduce-reuse-recycle. Send responses w/ #acleanlife tag
The Answers
robotchampion: ive made a bigger effort to recycle all paper in my life, including carrying stuff around and from work to recycle bin at home
kmallwein: still more to do but traditional trash recycling + turn stuff & …