http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/ work inspired en-us Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:37:15 EST Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:37:15 EST http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Movable Type Pro 4.33-en 60 http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2010/03/the_box_that_saved_the_world.html d For me, one of the interesting things about design has always been how changing seemingly small items can have amazingly large results.And I'm not talking about a 24% rise in sales because someone decided to make the logo bigger.... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:57:40 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2010:/aquentblog//11.2307 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Ethics Practice: Graphic Design http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2010/03/biodegradings_in_the_bag.html Since the 1990's SunChips have been Frito-Lay's healthy option for their snack line.For years, however, the brand never really seemed to take off. In fact, sales seemed to stall over time.Then a few years back, their brand team discovered that... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:30:27 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2010:/aquentblog//11.2296 Tim Donnelly Advertising Agencies Branding Ecology Food and Drink Marketing Practice: Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/11/green_about_me.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:44:38 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2214 Tim Donnelly Career Design Ecology Local Networking Events Practice: Graphic Design Practice: Interactive Design Practice: Marketing Practice: Media Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web Design Web/Tech careers http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/09/better_world_by_design.html You know, it seems like we're seeing more and more design-related conferences like the "A Better World by Design" one being held in Providence, Rhode Island this weekend.Here's the pitch from their site: "The conference will focus heavily on design,... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:31:22 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2194 Tim Donnelly Career Design Ecology Ethics Events Networking Practice: Graphic Design Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Trends http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/09/a_method_to_their_method.html Adam Lowry, co-founder of Method, has been posting over at the eco blog Treehugger about design and its implications of where the world is heading.In his latest entry he posits, "Design has never been just the domain of the creative.... Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:50:37 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2173 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Ethics Practice: Graphic Design Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/08/its_about_time_its_about_twitter.html If you weren't surprised when Bloggers were paid to promote companies' brands, you won't be shocked when I tell you that a company has cropped up that pays "Twitter users for every sponsored tweet they send to their followers,"Personally,... Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:47:27 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2139 Tim Donnelly Advertising Ecology Market news Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Trends Viral Marketing http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/06/thinking_outside_the_plastic_box.html Being someone who:a) lives with a vegetarianb) works closely with the design industryc) buys a lot of organic items on a weekly basisI have to say how surprised I am that:a) the organic movement has taken off the way it... Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:45:14 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2097 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/04/green_day.html You've probably never been happier it's Friday, right?Just think, you can visit this blog on Monday and I will be done hitting you over the head with my endless eco-diatribe.Come Monday you can throw recyclable cans and Compact Florescent... Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:03:17 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2041 Tim Donnelly Career Design Ecology Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/04/google_green.html Why is the staff at Google smarter than everyone else?Because their offices look like this? And this?Honestly, I wish I could name one executive at Google. I'm wondering if I asked anyone in my office (include the technologically advanced Jenn... Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:08:46 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/clone//11.2036 Tim Donnelly Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/09/lean_mean_and_green.html You know, it's all I can do to try to get people to be more "eco", "green", or choose your own environmental catchphrase, without appearing to be Hitler Youth and yelling at someone every time they throw out their Coke... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:41:36 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1643 Tim Donnelly Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/09/green_vs_green_washing.html Okay, let's face it, The People have caught onto the "green" Marketing tricks. And they're mad as hell. Saying your plastic bag is saving the Earth just because you can use it again as a garbage bag (as the... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:03:41 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1555 Tim Donnelly Career Design Ecology Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/07/101_unusual_thi.html As a Designer, Art Director, Creative Director, Project Manager, etc. that is. Not to push the Eco Point so far that I create backlash make people destroy the Earth just to spite me and my treehugging compatriots, I did... Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:45:32 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1507 Tim Donnelly Career Design Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/07/shake_n_bake.html Thanks to everyone from all over the U.S. who called in to see how we were. We're okay, I swear. Funny, I was just getting ready to go to lunch when I heard Sharon say, "Oh, here it goes"... Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:13:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1506 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/best_and_worst.html Of Bike to Work Week (in case you weren't bored of hearing about it already). Best: Seeing my friend Edmond walking through Hancock Park and being able to join him for mile or so. Not the kind of nice surprise... Tue, 20 May 2008 18:48:26 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1454 Tim Donnelly Ecology Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/its_here.html Bike to Work Day? Success! A whopping 10% of the office biked in today. Woo hoo! Okay, okay, it was just Rebecca and I, but there are only 20 people on-site today, so there you go. Meri got as far... Thu, 15 May 2008 20:50:23 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1448 Tim Donnelly Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/me_not_me.html So, I'm on Day 3 of biking to work and I do not yet look like this. Which is good, because chains make me look fat. The thing I'd forgotten about biking to work? That everyone you meet in... Wed, 14 May 2008 19:46:29 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1443 Tim Donnelly Career Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/its_bike_this.html And bike that. It's Bike to Work Week, home of Bike to Work Day and Bike to Work Month. (Somewhere, I'm guessing, 2008 is Year of the Bike. Oh, yup. Here.) Once again I'm going to try to fulfill... Mon, 12 May 2008 14:36:19 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1441 Tim Donnelly Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/04/is_your_company.html By now you've heard the expression Greenwashing, right? A marketing team decides they want to join the Eco Bandwagon (which, by the way, is getting pretty full) so they play up some "green" part of their company. Say run... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:53:13 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1424 Tim Donnelly Ecology Marketing Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/04/what_do_earth_d.html As Advertising Age pointed out, big sales at the mall. In a recent article by Natalie Zmuda (republished here at Commercial Alert), she asked, "Is Earth Day the New Christmas?" "...marketers of all stripes are bombarding consumers with green... Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:50:40 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1416 Tim Donnelly Ecology Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/04/im_in_the_dark.html How many times can I turn my lights out in 2008? The answer: To reduce CO2 emissions, as many times as I have to, dang it. (We did it at home in October and March, and of course, every... Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:33:15 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1415 Tim Donnelly Ecology Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/never_have_i_be.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:50:24 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1352 Tim Donnelly Ecology Food and Drink Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/natural_mohawk.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:11:10 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1348 Tim Donnelly Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/selling_out_to.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:27:03 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1332 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Design Ecology Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/change_the_marg.html I once heard an interview with eco-celebrity Ed Begley, Jr. that he wasn't "green", he was just incredibly cheap. On that Saving-Money-And-End-Up-Being-Green front, Tamara Krinsky came up with this idea: Save Paper By Increasing Your Margins Really. Now, I'm just... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:22:12 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1318 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/12/greenwashing_ga.html I've been passing by the new BP gas station on Olympic for about 6 months now and for the life of me I can't figure out what the company is doing. Here's a gas station who rents (or owns)... Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:56:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1286 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/11/greening_up_bla.html As green as some of us want to be, the hard fact is we're going to part with some cash for consumable gifts for others this holiday season. There's good news, though. Every year the blog Treehugger runs a... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:13:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1279 Tim Donnelly Books Charity Ecology Personal Blogging Sales Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/10/lights_out_aha.html This is an interesting idea, to encourage energy conservation, a league of people is pushing for a Lights Out Night. It was started in Australia, witnessed and borrowed by a San Franciscan, now adopted by a Los Angeles group... Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:34:12 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1253 Tim Donnelly Ecology Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/09/now_thats_smart.html Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:12:47 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1233 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Marketing Sales Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/bathroom_humour.html Here's a first, the un-whoopee cushion: GasBGon Flatulence Filter The GasBGon flatulence filter seat cushion is a fun, yet serious solution to the embarrassing problem of malodorous gas (breaking wind). GasBGon seat cushions apply cutting edge carbon filter technology... Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:55:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1201 Tim Donnelly Ecology Food and Drink Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/dont_let_bygone.html And, finally, some good news about the earth... Bald Eagles Rebound After 40 Years on Endangered Species List How about that? (picture by supaluminal via flickr)... Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:13:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1161 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/bill_gates_reti.html Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:50:23 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1156 Tim Donnelly Celebrities Current Affairs Ecology Marketing Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/clean_with_a_tw.html When did cleaning your house become such a high-end, eco-friendly, well-designed task? First Method flew under the radar to rank as the 7th fastest growing private company in the US (according to Inc. Magazine) and now Twist, who is... Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:05:51 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1138 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Marketing Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/why_its_okay_to.html I hate the way bike helmets look. I hate the way they feel. But I probably would have suffered a massive head injury when a car pulled out in front of my bike and sent me flying in the street... Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:59:41 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1137 Tim Donnelly Ecology Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/bike_to_work_da.html The winners: Natalie, Becky, Kerry (15 miles!), Andy, and I. Wait, WE'RE ALL WINNERS! (bwaa haaaa....)... Thu, 17 May 2007 15:57:54 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1122 Tim Donnelly Ecology Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/i_like_bike_my.html You know you may be a little deranged when you feel the compulsion to blog every day, even with all the fires burning around you (sometimes literally). It's a busy week, but I did want to let you know, I... Tue, 15 May 2007 20:30:13 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1118 Tim Donnelly Ecology Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/see_timing_stil.html I usually like to participate Los Angeles Bike to Work Week, at least riding a couple days out of that week (the promise that I'd start riding on Fridays after Daylight Saving Time started hasn't worked out so well). And... Mon, 14 May 2007 20:56:24 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1117 Tim Donnelly Career Ecology Food and Drink Health and Fitness Movies http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/air_your_dirty.html Legitimate Package Rip Off or Market Share Hogging? YOU DECIDE! A small organic plant food company, TerraCycle, is being sued by Scotts Miracle-Grow who claims the upstart's packaging too closely resembles its Miracle-Grow product line and that it is making... Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:16:51 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1100 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging Science Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/stopping_climat.html In the wake of Earth Day, I've been catching up with some recent articles, blogs, and podcasts on the subjects of climate change, carbon footprints, conservation, and the like. I just got done listening to Chris Goodall, author of How... Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:49:19 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1096 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/look_before_you.html Even though we're heard a lot of talk about ethanol being a silver bullet for all our oil-bred woes (reliance on unstable countries for oil, rampant pollution), atmospheric chemist Mark Jacobson at Stanford University has been more than a little... Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:48:20 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1095 Tim Donnelly Cars Current Affairs Ecology Personal Blogging Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/i_wanna_be_like.html I miss my bike. I really do. For a year or so (during Daylight Saving Time) I could ride 4 miles from my son's school to Aquent every Friday . This was a switch up to dropping both my son... Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:59:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1064 Tim Donnelly Ecology Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/your_design_is.html It may be a hard road to try and convince your client to use recycled paper, minimal packaging, and soy-based inks the way Chris Hacker, former Creative Director for the ultra-eco Aveda, does (he showed us how last year at... Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:53:35 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1036 Tim Donnelly Career Design Ecology Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/green_like_me.html There are people who should embrace the most cutting edge technology/products and those who should just wait until they're available for general public. Take the Beta version of any software. If you don't mind finding bugs and reporting them to... Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:20:25 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1031 Tim Donnelly Cars Current Affairs Ecology Personal Blogging Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/aural_design.html I'd originally bought my iPod for music. Seemed like a good idea. Get rid of lugging the CDs in the car, to and from work, into and out of the office... But the weird thing is, now podcasts take up... Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:03:11 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1030 Tim Donnelly Art Career Ecology Personal Blogging Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/hole_foods.html Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:35:37 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1023 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/01/pimp_my_smogspe.html Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:27:53 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1008 Tim Donnelly Celebrities Current Affairs Ecology http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/11/smiles_everyone.html It's true, someday I'm going to run out of 70's TV references. In the meantime, give me a moment to promote this tripod to the amateur photographers among you. Called the Gorillapod, this tripod has flexible legs which can... Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:39:23 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.949 Tim Donnelly Art Career Design Ecology Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/no_break_for_ho.html As shocking as it may seem to many people, there are a lot of items in and around Los Angeles that aren't exactly for real. Promises to call you back. RSVPs. Body parts. Bus schedules. So it may (or may... Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:50:14 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.922 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology Movies http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/09/what_starts_wit.html Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:30:46 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.884 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology Science http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/09/david_letterman.html Oh, the Top 10 List. My friend once asked a writer who worked on Letterman's show why #2 was always funnier than #1. The writer told him they needed a not-so-funny #1 so they could go into commercial break... Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:44:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.869 Tim Donnelly Art Books Cars Celebrities Current Affairs Design Ecology Film Food and Drink Movies Music Networking Religion Science Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/08/yabba_dabba_art.html Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:22:34 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.846 Tim Donnelly Art Career Design Ecology Science http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/07/i_like_bike.html Riding my bike home from work last week I saw that other bike rider, you know the one that gives all the rest of us a bad name: going the wrong way down the street, popping in and out between... Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:26:50 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.818 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/07/one_more_reason.html Honestly, if you're already iffy about your current job (or work in general), the Global Warming Mug probably isn't for you. You fill it up with hot coffee and parts of familiar land masses disappear underwater, illustrating the effects of... Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:25:55 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.802 Tim Donnelly Career Ecology Food and Drink Science http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/06/disaster_is_pun.html In case you missed the LA Times headline from Sunday's paper, I'll reprint it for you right here: Greenland's Ice Sheet Is Slip-Sliding Away Hmm.The story went on to discuss that glaciers are quickly melting away and, when completely thawed,... Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:55:52 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.794 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology Science http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/06/camping_smore.html Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:47:20 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.787 Tim Donnelly Ecology Food and Drink http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/06/so_in_review.html Thanks to everyone who attended our Kernspiracy Portfolio Review at Machine Project last night. Never have so many tried so hard to make a left turn onto Alvarado. But the 50 or so who did make that turn (and I'm... Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:42:58 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.784 Tim Donnelly Art Career Ecology Networking Recruiting Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/05/gearing_up.html You may not be aware, but this week is the 12th Annual Bike to Work Week! If you've been groaning about gas prices, maybe this is the week to try your biking skills out and save, save, SAVE at the... Tue, 16 May 2006 20:58:30 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.760 Tim Donnelly Cars Current Affairs Ecology Sports http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/04/runs_with_frenc.html It's funny, four months ago it was hard to find anything to do with biodiesel or Greasecars in Los Angeles. Turns out we just had to wait a little while. Karin and her boyfriend have been driving by LoveCraft BioFuels... Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:43:02 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.738 Tim Donnelly Cars Ecology http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/04/conspicuous_con.html When is too much too much? I do love me some Treehugger blog site, but there's a problem. Possibly because I read most of my blogs at work (it's okay, they know), when I go to see what post they... Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:33:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.732 Tim Donnelly Ecology Science Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/03/the_phrase_that.html I like environmentally-minded thinking. Maybe more than a lot of people in Los Angeles. Say, the ones who keep buying Hummers to drive in a city that gets 12 days of rain a year. But there's a fringe of environmentalists... Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:49:38 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.690 Tim Donnelly Ecology Science Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/02/wordy_rappingho.html If you like seeing words you've rarely seen before in action, then you should definitely check out LA Times' staff writer Dan Neil's column Rumble Seat. The man is an enigma. Here he is writing about Audis, VWs, and Cadillacs... Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:15:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.667 Tim Donnelly Cars Ecology http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/02/hacks_all_hacks.html One of the great things about working with Drea Silva is that she is endlessly connected to the Internet. So I can get IMs at my desk from her phone when she's stuck in traffic (she says she's at red... Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:35:16 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.650 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Film Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/01/get_your_green.html One of the amazing things about the Internet and search engines (besides proving me wrong at parties), is how quickly you can find something you've been pondering on your commute. Say, thoughts about brake lights for the front of cars... Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:37:02 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.639 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Design Ecology Marketing Science Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2005/11/the_white_house.html To recycle. It's true, by a proclamation from President Bush every November 15th is America Recycles Day. (Please save your political commentaries, we've got bigger fish to fry.) There's some good information from the Urban Eco blog, because, dang it,... Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:45:17 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2005:/butlessaboutme//7.570 Tim Donnelly Ecology