Feb

26

Talented teen transforms cooking oil into fuel

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[From: MAKE: Blog]

The Evening Chronicle has an article on a teen-turned-fuel baron… sorta -
He happily admits he’s hopeless at school - but Steven Henderson is Tyneside’s very own oil baron.
Northumberland’s answer to JR Ewing has built his own oil refinery in the shed at his home in Stamfordham Road, Eachwick, near Ponteland, which he uses [...]

Feb

26

The New Wine

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[From: The J-Walk Blog]
Another bottled water story: Designer water the new wine.

Part of an emerging trend toward water connoisseurship, 10 Thousand BC is “ultra-premium” water derived from an environmentally protected glacier.
It is bottled and corked to the sound of inspirational music — much like playing Mozart to a baby in the womb [...]

Feb

24

Jim Kunstler’s Agenda (and Mine)

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[From How to Save the World]

Red line: Sustainable population/sustainable total footprint at prevailing levels of consumption, with no provision for any non-human species. Green line: Sustainable population/sustainable total footprint at prevailing levels of consumption, with provision for a healthy level of biodiversity. In 1980 we started living on borrowed time. We’re now living 1/3 [...]

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