It's too hot to do anything. I'm staying indoors. I've shut the windows. Shiner, the cat I'm cat-sitting, has been asleep all weekend. It's too hot, too too hot. All I want to do is imagine a not-so-unlikely future world where big urban frying pans like Manhattan are nothing but green forest, as seen in this startling illustration by Ji Lee for The New York Times review of a new book by Alan Weisman, "The World Without Us." This vision is so attractive I feel cooler just looking at it. Except, of course, for it to actually happen we'd all have to die. (The people at the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement have already declared, 'Sign me up!') Link.
* Noted: My colleague Judith Lewis blogged recently at Another Green World on the essential goodness of tap water, and on the evils of its flouridation.