Something to Green (Grin) About

I just finished a three-day conference in midtown Manhattan today that started Friday and went through over the weekend.

It was always gratifying to visit the City this time of the year to see it myself and watched visitors looking up those tall buildings and fancy billboards, not looking at their foot steps as they strolled the streets of Manhattan. :)

I decided to commute to the City by light rail train in Newark and the Path train from Penn Station, Newark to Penn Station on 33rd St, Manhattan by Broadway.

It cost me 24 cents to a mile!...and less greenhouse effect!

I was proud of it.

Warm Summer Days, Green House Effects and my Truck

It was humid in northern New Jersey today despite a recorded 79 Fahrenheit. But I felt cooler as I commuted back home. I don't turn on my ac most of the time in my commute. I let the ambient air cool me off.

It is the presence of trees that provide the cooler climate. They are carbon neutral, utilizing the CO2 expelled by human beings and animals, NOT from my truck! We in turn consume the O2 expelled by plants to create energy.

I don't know the specific biochemistry behind them but somehow I recognized some significance of those boring college biochemistry class.

Nowadays, it is called green house effects.