>> Organic wine’s got half the footprint of regular wine. A study of 2 sangioveses found that “A bottle from the organic farm had an eco-footprint of 7.17 square metres, half that of the non-organic wine with a footprint of 13.98 square metres.” Can someone convert the figures into square miles for me?
>> Learn how to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew. This’d be a cool party trick, except it requires a screwdriver, longish screw, and a claw hammer — and I only own the first of the three. I have, however, managed to open wine sans screw –
>> Let them drink merlot in California. Cali winemakers “estimate this year’s crop in the state could be 20% smaller than in 2007, hurt by bad weather,” aka global weirding.
>> Weed beer wins fight with feds. Vaune Dillmann of Weed, Calif. gets to keep his “Try Legal Weed” slogan on bottle caps for his Mt. Shasta Brewing beer. “Most of the folks back home in Weed — population 3,000 — couldn’t understand what the fuss was about. The little town has been marketing the double entendre of its name for years, with gas stations selling ‘High on Weed’ T-shirts and a sign at the town’s exit reading ‘Temporarily Out of Weed.’”
Do you really want square miles? Those are pretty small amounts.
Using the google, you can enter “7.17 square meters in square miles” and get 7.17 (square meters) = 2.76835248 × 10-6 square miles
and 13.98 (square meters) = 5.39770818 × 10-6 square miles.
Comment by Don Hosek — September 3, 2008 @ 10:44 am
Eek, my superscripts disappeared in that post. Those 10-6 above should be 10 to the -6th power (that is we’re talking millionths of a square mile.
To put the dimensions in more familiar terms, 7.17 square meters is a space about 8′6″ square. The 13.98 square meters is a space about 12′3″ square.
Comment by Don Hosek — September 3, 2008 @ 10:47 am