image from NY Times MagazineAlso found at Time Magazine's website is an ironic story about the "greening" of the U.S. military.
A Google Search uses as much energy as an 11-watt light bulb over an hour.
Author Michael Pollan contributed to this Sunday's NY Times Magazine with an article about why we should bother greening ourselves.
Lastly, the USGS is hosting an Earth Day web expo on Earth As Art.
Von Karman Vortices
Image taken 7/4/2002 by Landsat 7
As air flows over and around objects in its path, spiraling eddies, known as Von Karman vortices, may form. The vortices in this image were created when prevailing winds sweeping east across the northern Pacific Ocean encountered Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
This image can be found on Landsat 7 Path 79 Row 23-24, center: 53.1 N, 170.4 W.
