I’ve decided I’m a bad-news-first sort of person.

• Eastern Bank to Buy Wainwright – Boston Globe. Noooooooo…! I guess now I have to do some research on Eastern.
• Big Ag and Factory Farms Create Acid Rain – Change.org. Modern acid rain isn’t sulfuric acid, but nitric acid, created mostly by fertilizer.
• Turtle Deaths Called Result of Shrimping, Not Oil Spill – New York Times. More than half of the dead turtles studied in the gulf have died because of shrimp nets, not oil.
• Stores See Google as Ally in E-Book Market – The New York Times. Google will allow independent bookstores to sell the company’s ebooks on their websites.
• Paths to Lower Resistance – Boston Globe. Our Nokians weren’t on the list, but it’s good to see Consumer Reports factoring rolling resistance into their tire recommendations.
• Lightbulbs to Get Nutrition-Style Labels Next Year – Treehugger. The labels look really clear, too. Do you think this will make more people use fluorescents?
• How to Make Watermelon Rind Pickles – The Greenest Dollar. I’m bizarrely fascinated by this. I might try it.
• Why Bicycle Crashes Happen, Part Two – An Adventure Called Bicycling. Only 17% of bicycle crashes involve cars.
• Bicycle Highways – Slate. I have to admit to riding on the sidewalk across the bridge yesterday (there was a bus/narrow bike lane issue), and it felt so much safer!

Why are you still reading this? It’s a long weekend. Go outside and enjoy it!