Damek.

I agree, we’re living through the zeroes.
I also agree, highbrow needs to take a break and suck it up sometimes: Harry Potter is what it is, relax, chill, go see a Miramax film and feel better (ha!).
In other news, I pretty much spent the entirety of today (so far) reading lolcats. I Can Has [...]

Soon, there may not be any more:
The Prime Minister, John Howard, a hardened climate-change sceptic, delivered dire tidings to the nation’s farmers yesterday. Unless there is significant rainfall in the next six to eight weeks, irrigation will be banned in the principal agricultural area. Crops such as rice, cotton and wine grapes will fail, citrus, [...]

Anyone with me on this one?
UPDATE: There’s also Beer on the Pier on October 7th. But in reality I’m not going to go to either of these.

Via my assistance with Upper Green Side, I’ve become acquainted with the Green Restaurant Association. In fact, one of Upper Green Side’s new projects is to encourage restaurants on the Upper East Side to become certified green.
The Massachusetts-based GRA works with restaurants to find ways they can become more sustainable. And they know [...]

The new Greenmarket opened down the street from me today — we went to check it out and enjoy the literal fruits of Upper Green Side’s labor over the past few months. I took some photos of the event, which you can see in my post at Upper Green Side. Glenn also covered [...]