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Here is a list of powerful, habit changing documentaries.  Collect them all, share them with your friends (yes, Me!).  Apparently I can’t let my kids watch 3.5hours of television daily anymore…so I’ll have to wait a few years to try and brainwash them.
10 Enviro Tales You’ve Never Seen On Film Before

Another simple solution from Google engineers making it’s way into the power generation/distribution/consumption chain.  Google PowerMeter allows users access to energy consumption data using a secure Google gadget.
Knowing what you are utilizing daily will empower you to make changes to your consumption habits. Partnering with energy companies in North America and India they will be […]

Check out the leader’s response to various environmental questions.    This is the result of the debate they were going to have with ALL the leaders, but of course Steve decided against attending for obvious reasons.

– Richard Crowson / Wichita Eagle (August 3, 2008)
Also along these hazy lines, have a look past the propaganda and dig into the data points that prove that the pollution will continue unabated.  More drastic measures will certainly go into effect.  How about surrounding the city with Made in China vacuum cleaners with HEPA […]

Digging through the ingredient list on sunscreen is a pain in the ass.  The Environmental Working Group has done their homework and amassed a large searchable database of sunscreens to save you the pain.

I’m not a big sunscreen user, I tend to seek shaded nooks and trees with massive canopies.  However the little guy, well […]

Snapped this crazy pic on the way home from working up north last week.  Just a massive storm front moving across the island.  I had never seen anything so … linear … before.

Taking a cue from a great post entitled “This Store Blows” over at Racked.com… I present to you the 514 version.  Here’s their concept:
Come summer, you see retailers around the city leaving the doors of their stores propped wide open in the hopes of enticing shoppers in with blasts of frigid air conditioning. In protest […]

Branding it as a modern day ark for the millions who will be totally screwed by climate change.  However more than likely will be used as a ritzy hotel by ultra billionaires as an escape pod when the hoards of hungry and homeless arrive.

inhabitat article here.
…and the original concept that it was blatantly copied […]

More news on Toyota’s upcoming game plan. From plug-in hybrid’s to more efficient and smaller internal combustion engines and perhaps fully electric micro cars. Check out the story on Autopia, here.

- creative commons license here.

The invasion of Iraq by Britain and the US has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 trillion in higher energy prices alone.
He spoke after oil prices set a new record on 13 consecutive days over the past two weeks. They have now multiplied sixfold since […]