Spring has finally arrived here in Arlington, Virginia…and a middle-aged blogger’s thoughts are turning toward golf. Eco-crime! you scream. Yes, it seems truly green golf has a difficult course ahead of it (although I might sneak out this weekend anyway)…check out that and the other green links you must click on this morning:

• Go for the Green: Triple Pundit’s Ariel Schwartz checks out a Panama golf course that claims to be eco-friendly…and comes back with a lot of questions. (No report on how she shot.)

• Priuses for All: It gets 50 mpg — so why not buy every driver in the United States a 2010 Prius with the stimulus money? argues Dan Niel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning car critic for the Los Angeles Times. It would only cost $46 billion, he says…and save us more in energy than any other investment.

• Would You Like Butter on That? A New Zealand company has figured out how to microwave biomass into charcoal (known as biochar) without generating carbon. Does that mean anything for climate change? The Vine summarizes the debate.

• If Alfred Hitchcock Were Alive… He might make a movie called “The Fishes” after seeing this swarm (known as a “shoal”) of hundreds of millions of herring…which formed in the space of an hour.

• Is Earth Hour Impractical? Many people are turning their lights off for an hour this Saturday night for “Earth Hour”…but a lot of office buildings (including the White House) can’t do it for fear of safety, security and legal issues, reports Short Sharp Science.

(Image: Golf ball on Cape Cod beach. Credit: Chris Seufert through a Creative Commons license.)

Posted: March 27th, 2009 under Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Fish, Green Living, Green Technology.
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, biochar, Climate Change, Dan Niel, Earth Hour, Fish, golf, Los Angeles Times, Panama, Prius, Short Sharp Science, Triple Pundit, White House