Weekly roundup: August 8 - 14

Articles

How green is your beer? from The Globe and Mail

How saving energy means conserving water in U.S. West from Scientific American

2 Crestwood officials charged with federal crime related to contaminated well water from The Chicago Tribune

Governments can't do everything from National Post [I do not agree with all this piece has to say, but it is true that everybody seems to want things to be free while also not wanting to pay the higher taxes that come from those demands. Some services (or parts of them) really should be user pay. Let's begin with reforming our roads/driving/car insurance systems and continue from there to municipal water, power and health and human services. Decisions made by individuals/corporations should not always be backstopped by some sort of government insurance.]

Stormwater Commission “Caches” in on Stormwater BMPs from The Stormwater Report: Vol. 1, No. 5 [First story.]

An open letter to all who despise sport and most especially football from stephenfry.com

The road the Spyhill from Macleans

Tweets

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-08-12T18:51:16.000Z. Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome). Sesame Street says Bert and Ernie aren't gay, tho I find it suspicious that the last episode was brought to you by the letters L, G, B, & T..

@acoyne Studies show that 7 out of 10 sentences beginning "This'll sound racist, but..." end with "....it's just the way I was brought up."

— Tabatha Southey (@TabathaSouthey) August 13, 2011

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-08-13T14:50:15.000Z. Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders). British road signs still sometimes mystify me. http://t.co/dvRo0nO.

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-08-14T17:09:55.000Z. Brad Gagnon (@Brad_Gagnon). Fox Sports Radio host: "The Angels and Blue Jays just getting underway at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Alberta, Canada.".

Video

^ Seems appropriately amusing given all the photos I'll post from Peru.