by Jonathan Hiskes
Robotics engineer Catherine Mohr is
tired of enviros “long on moral authority and short on data.” She’s got a smart
TED talk
clip about the greenest options for (a) wiping up a yogurt spill and (b) building
a house. The point in each case is that the best option is often not what you’d
expect.
She sorta takes the
annoying and all too common tone of “everything you’ve been trying to do out of
good faith is wrong and stupid,” which isn’t motivating. But she brings the
data and presents it clearly, and that’s worth a shout-out:
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