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Today’s Sunday magazine in WaPo has a photo essay on Pennsylvania Avenue. We especially liked the Attack of the Segways photo online at selection 8.
Carbon Emissions In DC (pic)
The world’s climate is getting a lot of media and public mindshare these days. Al Gore, former US Vice President, has made a new career out of it. We all use energy in various forms and we thought it would be worth pointing out a nifty online tool that you, the reader, can use to see exactly how DC stacks up when it comes to power plant carbon emissions.
To that end, we point you to the Carbon Monitoring for Action (or CARMA) website hosted by the Center for Global Development (also in DC) and a list of all the carbon dioxide emitting plants in and around DC. Pepco, the local power company, runs two electricity generation facilities inside DC proper, one at Buzzard’s Point and the another on Benning Road. The Buzzard’s Point facility is just a stone’s throw from downtown as it can be found on the other side of the Mall near where the new baseball stadium is going up.
Ho? Ho! Ho???
Walking around the city last night we noticed that some jokers at the Caucus Room had Dasher & Vixen playing reindeer games in one of the restaurant’s 9th Street windows. Not the most creative holiday window display we’ve seen this year, but to borrow a phrase: we report, you decide.
What To Put On The DC Coin?
The Post has a story this morning about how DC (and Puerto Rico, and Guam, and…) will get a “State” quarter in 2009. No design has been finalized & according to the article Mayor Fenty says the design will include “maximum resident input.”
So what would our fellow PQ’ers put on the coin? Electronic billboards? The Waffle Shop?