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Gristmill lists the ten most bizarre environmental events of 2006, including, “When Chevy offered net surfers the opportunity to edit their own Chevy Tahoe ads online, enviros grabbed the opportunity to match slick, soaring shots of SUVs rolling over mountainous terrain with titles like ‘Gas Guzzler!’” Joel Makower has a more sober list, on which Wal-Mart’s green makeover ranks #1. [CORRECTION FROM COMMENTS: Wal-Mart was one of ten; the list was not prioritized.]
At Guardian Unlimited Tim Radford lists the 11 most interesting science books coming out in the next few months. Best title: How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change a Planet? Best synopsis: the book about various “gloriously implausible but not necessarily impossible ideas … including, of course, the proposition that we will all be reassembled as cyber-identities in a cosmic computer and experience a subjective eternity in the last crushing seconds of time.” See ya there. (Hat tip to Butterflies and Wheels.)
