Photomontage via the Sun There evidently are not enough dwarves in the Netherlands, so they have taken to tossing Smart Cars into the canals. While one Smart Car salesman said to the Sun that “We’re not supposed to talk about this because...
Photo: FLickr , CC Investing in Mass Transit Pays Mass transit is a great way for people to reduce their transportation footprint, especially city dwellers. But bad quality transit systems can drive people back to their cars (literally), and once a subway...
Like the Kalapalo people pictured here, the Kamayurá people, also living in the Xingu national park, get most of their protein from fish . Photo: e-giacomazzi via flickr For a really great image of how environmental changes are already affecting people,...
Jimmy Fallon as his environmental alter-ego, The Recharger. Photo from NBC/Universal Late Night talker, Jimmy Fallon, headed to the Comic-Con extravaganza in San Diego this past weekend and survived to share his adventure. Taking the name “Comic-Con”...
Font Designed by a Moving Car A team composed of two typographers, a pro driver, and an interactive artist/programmer has been hired by Toyota and Happiness Brussels (a Belgian ad agency) to pull off a pretty original PR stunt to market the Toyota iQ...
As Bonnie wrote last year , “Seasonal restaurants are all the rage, and they should be at this time of the year. With fresh from the field vegetables and fruits available on an hourly basis, chefs are featuring recipes on their menus that take...
Photo credit: AmazonLife A legendary fashion designer and a two-dimensional, wisecracking rabbit don’t exactly run in the same circles, but Vivienne Westwood and Bugs Bunny are just two of the five international bold-face names that have banded...
Machu Picchu photo: Matt Riggot via flick. Just yesterday Mike pointed out that the good forestry practices of the Maya allowed them to flourish for some time, until they abandoned their green stewardship and their civilization collapsed. Now my colleagues...
Photo: Flickr , CC They Ran the Pumps 24/7 Because it Costs too Much to Pay Someone to Turn Them Off… I think few people realize how much water is used for food production. The numbers are quite mind-boggling, and a side effect of this is that...
Regular readers of this site may remember Vanessa Farquharson, a reporter at Canada’s climate-denying, right-of-the-WSJ National Post, who from March, 2007 to March, 2008 made one green change in her life every day, and blogged about it at Green...


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