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Traveling Green with Shared Transportation—From White Bikes to ZipCars
It’s 2009 and who hasn’t heard of green transportation ?Although the green movement using transportation can be traced back to the horse and buggy days, and certainly the Amish community travel about as green as can be, it can be reasonably stated that the modern era of the greening of transportation began in the mid [...]
Saving the Sea Otter
Hunted to the verge of extinction by the turn of the 20th century, sea otters were considered too far gone to ever recover. They had numbered in the millions before then, but continuous and unmerciful hunting for their fur almost led to their extinction. Which is why saving endangered species is so crucial.
Doing away with paper towels
I have an admission to make. I actually have a roll of paper towels in my place. Granted, they are the 100% recycled kind, but I am still guilty of something I do not really believe in.
My roll is almost ½ way gone, and truth be told, I believe I purchased them in early [...]
The End of the Internal Combustion Engine, As We Know it
The internal combustion engine has been with us in a practical form since about the late 1800’s, or thereabouts. After that, almost our entire industrial culture has been built around it in some form or another, most recognizable as a means of transportation for the supply of goods, as a personal way to travel, [...]
Can We Finish what the Woodstock Generation Started?
The 40th anniversary of Woodstock has come and gone, and the 50th anniversary is 10 years down the road. Peace, love music and drugs were the mainstay of the original music festival in 1969, but something else came out of that, something that was about as cosmic as the festival was itself, and it is [...]
Why is going nuclear so bad?
That’s a question for the ages, isn’t it? All this talk now about nuclear power being great and then again, nuclear power being not so great. Is it a green technology or a spawn of Satan? Is it a world beating new age way to make friendly power, or a dangerous source of energy production [...]
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