"Salish Sea" beats "Twitter" as Name of the Year

From the Kitsap (WA) Sun:

The name "Salish Sea" has been chosen over "Twitter" as the American Name Society’s "Name of the Year." The Salish Sea is defined as the inland waterway in Washington and British Columbia that includes Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Strait of Georgia.

"I think it is significant because it is a brand new name," said Cleveland Evans, who conducted the competition for the American Name Society, an academic organization. "It fits ecological interests, being invented by a biologist. And it has a Native American connection, chosen from a name for a broad ethnic group..."

Read the rest

Nature photo of the day

Icy windshield in Seattle

Is this how your city does Bike Lanes?

Another great video from Streetfilms:

Anti-whaling effort picks up speed

Fifty knots worth. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society today announced its acquisition of the Batboat-like Earthrace -- renaming it the Ady Gil, and announcing plans to use it as (what else) an interceptor.

More after the jump.

Carbon storage - how it could work

Last year we had a good laugh at politicans who were saying America could be powered by "clean coal." What they were talking about, what they are still talking about, is carbon capture and storage (or sequestration). CO2 would be captured at the source, then -- disposed of. Somehow.

Of course this does nothing about the other part of the coal idiocy, the input side.  The environmental disaster caused in the course of mining coal is enough by itself to take coal generated electricity off the table.