The MPH Champ: VW Polo Bluemotion

I like hybrid cars, but i don’t like the battery technology they are chained too. Volkswagon has never bought their Polo model to the US and I think they should. It has phenomenal fuel efficiency. How good is it?
Introduced last year, the Polo BlueMotion is a mileage champ — thanks to a combination of light [...]

Kor Water Bottle

I’ve already put my name down for one.
Prepackaged water bottles are, we’ve been told, dangerous to reuse, but KOR’s plastic — Titan™, manufactured by Eastman — does not contain BPA (Bisphenol A). According to some studies, this chemical, found in polycarbonate plastics (its use runs the gamut from CDs, to medical equipment and even [...]

Brazil Leads the Way Toward a Secure Energy Future

While we here in America debate about “energy independence” via ethanol and removing offshore drilling restrictions, Brazil’s NOC (National Oil Company) is already doing those things. Due to the 1973 oil crisis Brazil began a program to power its vehicles and limit the effects of international oil prices. Today every car sold in Brazil can [...]

Go Green — Buy a Used Car. It’s Better Than a Hybrid

As Matt Power notes in this month’s issue of Wired, hybrids get great gas mileage but it takes 113 million BTUs of energy to make a Toyota Prius. Because there are about 113,000 BTUs of energy in a gallon of gasoline, the Prius has consumed the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gasoline before it reaches [...]

Send Your Name to the Moon

Sign up to send your name to the moon. Names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will also receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission.
The deadline is June 27, 2008 for the submission of names.
LRO’s objectives are to find [...]

Myanmar Disaster: 22,500 Dead, 40,000 Missing

Myanmar is trying to pick up the pieces after a cyclone tore through the Irrawaddy Delta. Aid is being hampered by the ruling military junta; the same people who are largely responsible for the country’s lack of preparedness. I’ll post more info on where to send donations in another post.
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Human Footprint

I forgot to mention that I saw this amazing special on National Geographic earlier this week. The premise of the show is to illustrate how much resources each human being consumes in a lifetime.

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