The best reason I've ever seen for telecommuting:
Telecommute once a week. Americans traveled 614.5 billion miles to and from work in 2001. If all commuters worked from home just one day a week, we could save 5.85 billion gallons of oil and cut over 65 million metric tons (roughly 143 billion pounds) of carbon dioxide each year.
From Drive Smart: Fuel Savings Add Up.
Where I work, we're not allowed to telecommute. BUT, I work for the State! Ergo, they should be encouraging us to telecommute. The government has to take a stand and start doing something about this environmental disaster we've brought upon ourselves.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Saturday, May 6, 2006
We shall see.
Well the Ohio primaries have come and gone. Strickland is the Dem candidate for governor. No surprise there. Blackwell is the Repub candidate. Given recent polls, that's not a surprise either. We'll see how long it takes him to start with his nasty commercials attacking Strickland. I'm thinking it won't be long. And I'm hoping that Strickland does not respond in kind. He needs to stick to the ideas, the platform, the state of the State. If he attacks back, I'm not sure I'll be able to vote for governor in November. I can't stand the attack ads anymore--I've never liked them and they've gotten just too nasty in the last year or two--and I just don't think I can support or vote for a candidate that gets that heavily into such things.
So we shall see.
So the head of the CIA is gone. Interesting. Seems to have been a power struggle going on there. No real reason has been given. It's all pretty vague. My paranoid, cynical side is wondering what the Administration wants to do that Goss refused to do, actually resigning instead. Give him a year or so to write and publish a book (or for some reporter to get a scoop), then we'll know the real story.
So we shall see.
From CNN: "A Sudanese government spokesman has said that United Nations peacekeepers now would be welcome in Darfur after a peace agreement between Khartoum and one of the rebel groups." Of course, not all of the rebel groups signed the agreement. And though I don't claim to know that much about the history of the situation, I don't believe everyone there has been all that great at living up to other agreements that have been made. I think this would be one of those situations that calls for tempered optimism. What's going to happen there?
We shall see.
So we shall see.
So the head of the CIA is gone. Interesting. Seems to have been a power struggle going on there. No real reason has been given. It's all pretty vague. My paranoid, cynical side is wondering what the Administration wants to do that Goss refused to do, actually resigning instead. Give him a year or so to write and publish a book (or for some reporter to get a scoop), then we'll know the real story.
So we shall see.
From CNN: "A Sudanese government spokesman has said that United Nations peacekeepers now would be welcome in Darfur after a peace agreement between Khartoum and one of the rebel groups." Of course, not all of the rebel groups signed the agreement. And though I don't claim to know that much about the history of the situation, I don't believe everyone there has been all that great at living up to other agreements that have been made. I think this would be one of those situations that calls for tempered optimism. What's going to happen there?
We shall see.
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