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“It’s time to move on. Our country, and all of us, need to move from a fossil fuel past to a renewable energy future.
The mood in Britain has turned very much against the Big Six energy companies. And it’s not hard to see why. People are fed up with the unethical pricing, complex tariffs, awful customer service and the dire lack of investment in new sources of green energy.” – Ecotricity
“Though they’re consumed in most of the world, people in the West tend to be a little squeamish about eating bugs. But a new project from a group of design students in England hopes to put edible insects in a more gourmet light.” – Read the article at Fastcoexist.com
Yale sent a group of students to the Amazon to poke around at plants and “As it turns out, they brought back a fungus new to science with a voracious appetite for a global waste problem: polyurethane.”
My favorite reply in the comments section: “We don’t really have the best track record when it comes to introducing a foreign species to handle a problem we’ve created.”
“This video exposes the eco-socialist Gaia conspiracy to rob hard working Americans of God-given V-8 power and tax them into the poorhouse.” via: barbarinus
The new book What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption is out September 28, marking the end of 20th century Hyper Consumption for a new 21st century Collaborative Consumption. The Movement involves the emerging economies of “traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping redefined through technology and peer communities.” Most of us already know about things like Zipcar and Craigslist, but how about Couch Surfing which connects travelers with places to stay, or Shared Earth which brings together land owners with farmers and gardeners? Sharing is in, do it.
Catamaran made from 12,000 recycled plastic bottles crosses the pacific to raise awareness of our tendency to waste plastic like there’s no tomorrow …good idea? Here’s a cool video.
