A story in the Christian Science Monitor about Chhewang Norphel, a seventy-something Indian man who builds artificial glaciers.

The idea is simple: Divert the unneeded autumn and winter runoff into a series of large, rock-lined holding ponds. As the days grow colder, the ponds freeze and interconnect into a growing glacier.

h/t Kottke

The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert tears into the trendy practice of Thoreauvian eco-stunts – which typically consist of middle class white people voluntarily forsaking things in the name of conservation. And book deals.

Kolbert’s piece isn’t the first such criticism that I’ve read (that last link was to an excellent Mother Jones piece published last year) but hers is easily my favorite.

The derelict New York elevated fright route, which runs through the west side of lower Manhattan, was recently reopened as a park.

Click “Carbon Calculator” and find out how irresponsible it’d be to get in the car and catch Radiohead in, say, Mansfield, Massachusetts later this month.

For me: 314.811826 kgCO2 worth of guilt.