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Actor and activist Matthew Modine recently posted a very inspiring essay celebrating his love for the bicycle on the Huffington Post website. He explains that: Just as tobacco has killed millions with different forms of cancer, the automobile industry and the pollution that has spewed from exhaust pipes ever since Henry Ford’s Model ‘A’ rolled [...]
Running your car on used cooking oil is so 2008. The hottest feedstock for home-grown vehicle fuels is wood chips. Well, maybe not everyone’s doing it. But at least one resident of Alabama is, and he’s trying to spread the word about his innovation. Wayne Keith of Springville, Alabama, who’s a cattle rancher and a [...]
It’s rare that a city sets out to create a new tourist attraction and is able to do so with terrific success– but Lima, Peru has done it. The Magical Fountain amazes visitors with its rapid changes and height. While Lima is generally trashed by Peru guidebooks as the place everyone must dreadfully pass through [...]
On 22 May the International Institute for Species Research (IISR) of Arizona State University (ASU) released its list of 18,516 new species discovered in 2007. The top ten selected from these is fascinating, but what does it all really mean? species from the animalia kingdom The Top Ten List of New Species The Top 10 [...]
Phish is teaming up once again with Reverb Rock to lighten their summer tour’s carbon footprint! [Phish at Hampton Coliseum, 2009. Creative Commons photo by Bryan Sereny] Portland, Maine-based Reverb is a non profit organization that helps bands reduce their tours’ impacts through education and action. They’ve worked on over 70 tours and 1000 events [...]
