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Bottled Water: The origins may surprise you

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Posted on Dec 2 2011 by Daniel

Bottled water may seem harmless, but perhaps that’s because you haven’t thought of what “spring water” really means.


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  Tags: bottled water, humor Category: InfoVis, Water

Why not have both?

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Posted on May 5 2011 by Daniel

Tweet I think the word you’re looking for is “irony.”


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  Tags: home comfort, humor Category: Residential

Did a horse and buggy deliver that phone book?

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Posted on Apr 12 2011 by Daniel

TweetThe Oatmeal says what we’ve all been thinking:   Remember to go opt-out using the National Opt-Out Registry.


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  Tags: humor, phonebook, the oatmeal Category: Solid Waste

How (not) to Save Paper

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Posted on Feb 11 2011 by Daniel

Tweet Also, please see our 60″ plasma TV surrounded by flashing halogen lights for more information on “How to Save Energy.”  -The Management


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  Tags: humor, paper, waste Category: InfoVis

Monsterpiece Theatre: Conservations with Me Father

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Posted on Oct 27 2010 by Daniel

What can the Cookie Monster teach us about conservation?


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  Tags: efficiency, humor Category: Energy, Water

Learning Statistics the Hard Way

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Posted on Sep 22 2010 by Daniel

This seemed like the perfect follow up to my post on the value of statistical understanding. Let’s just hope no one learns conditional probability the hard way.


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  Tags: humor, probability, risk, statistics Category: EcoMetrics

You’re a racist against green people.

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Posted on Aug 20 2010 by Daniel

What does it really mean to “go green?”


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  Tags: humor Category: Pollution, Solid Waste

Le Grocer

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Posted on Jul 2 2010 by Daniel

Hopefully your real grocer is not this cynical or patronizing…


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  Tags: food, humor, organic Category: Food and Agriculture

Cry Until You Laugh

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Posted on Jun 10 2010 by Daniel

We’ve top-hatted, top-killed, used robots, hair, floating booms, and tried to stuff the well head with garbage, golf balls, sludge, cement, and Kevin Costner. It’d be funny if it weren’t so sad.


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  Tags: BP, humor, oil Category: Nature, Pollution, Water

What’s the big deal?

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Posted on May 28 2010 by Daniel

A little graphing humor to start your long weekend.


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  Tags: data, humor, statistics, visualization Category: InfoVis
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