The Carrot Project

I needed to buy a new computer monitor. Being a cost-sensitive geek, I went directly to my most trusted source of up-to-date computer product reviews, the ars technica system guide, budget box section. Their recommendation is the Asus VW224U 22”, it consumes a maximum of 55 watts, and at the ...

I spent yesterday afternoon with my sister and Touchstones, the discussion-based learning nonprofit with which she works, in a medium security prison between Washington DC and Annapolis, MD.

As soon as I got through security, I went to the bathroom, and on a dusty little shelf between the toilet and ...

It’s very amazing: we have a double moral in our society…

If I’m a thief, and I’m stealing, and the police catches me, and I’m being brought before the judge, and I will say to the judge: “But i promise I will steal less,” what do ...

The first visible piece of what will become our Reputation Economy is live.

User Profile Pages now feature little green blobs.

The blobs are filled with numbers, numbers the meaning of which are probably not obvious to anyone.

Click one, though. It’s way easier to solve the what the ...

There’s a growing school of thought that unfettered information about the environmental impacts of our world will smoke out the bad guys and help the good guys win.

I wish it were that simple.

That’s Joel Makower, long time veteran of the sustainability world, in his review of ...

Looks like The Bunny Project hit a little speed bump.

Fortunately, we’re not affiliated.

Yet.

I figured sustainability-minded people watching the progress of a revenue-less dot com startup might appreciate a cartoon on a Friday afternoon.

Thank you, Sharing Machine, for this Married to the Sea comic, and thank you, Lauren, for sending it my way.

After doing the first round of research into Big Oil and our gasoline brand options, Brent wrote:

PLEASE, don’t drive one inch further to fill up; the goal here is to use less and then, none.

If Sunoco’s on the way, buy Sunoco. If Shell doesn’t require ...

My favorite page to link to over the past few months has been carrotproject dot com slash crunchy.

Before yesterday, that URL would take you to a little story about hippie poet geeks (which is still alive and well on the internets - in this blog post - if anyone ever needs ...

No posts for more than a week.

Future situations like this will most likely signify some combination of the following:

-I’ve been having some weird neurotic blogger’s block moments.

-I haven’t been reading enough about carrots.

-We’re teetering on the edge of ready to take some ...