Here we go again, people… I don’t know if I’ve been living under a rock or something and this is old news to everyone, but it’s new to me. I’ve recently gotten into performance underwear. This is mainly because I’m tired of being either frozen or super-sweaty on my bike in the [...]

I’m reading up on transportation issues concerning our aging population and I just hit the section on alternate forms of transportation (e.g. Walking or Biking) and the paper cites a study conducted by the CDC, which produced the following conclusion:
The CDC estimates that if 10 percent of adults began a regular walking program, $5.6 billion [...]

I read in Wired today that the current Big Brother bill in congress, which would keep a two year log of everything we do on the internet, is being pushed through under the guise of helping us combat child pornography.  Don’t believe me?  Look at the acronym.  As we all know, the purpose of a [...]

Okay, apparently, the EPA now has its own ‘most wanted list’ now, full of baddies who dump, dupe, or spray illegally.  First of all, I want to say how happy I am that eco-villans are no longer just the stuff of James Bond or Captain Planet.  In the grand scheme of things, it’s much more [...]

While procrastinating the inevitable completion of the last in a long line of keynote presentations this semester, I happened upon this gem amongst my ‘Rapid Bus’ google results.  From Alan Hoffman, a San Diego transportation consultant.  (Read the whole article here.)
“It’s what I call the ‘AYF Factor.’ Attractive young females are the
canary in the coal [...]

It had to happen sometime and it finally has…  The U.N. is going green.  Sort of.  According to the New York Times, the glass curtain of the famous East River Headquarters will be redone with new super-insulated glass and windows that are designed not to open, which, combined with other improvements in the heating and [...]

It’s been about ten minutes since I finished listening to AC/DC’s new album, Black Ice, and even though I’ve got a mountain of reading and writing ahead of me, I just had to say a few words about my favorite band (in the Southern Hemisphere).
With the whirlwind first cut, Rock N’ Roll Train, the band’s [...]

Apparently, of the 50,000 or so chemicals commonly used in this country almost all of them have not been tested for, ahem, negative health effects.
In twenty years, when we all have cancer of the digestive tract from eating too many Doritos, I guess we’ll know why.  (Or maybe we still won’t!)
But seriously folks, take a [...]

I read a New York Times article over the weekend (which I’ve been trying to find for about ten minutes without success) about how it’s getting increasingly more difficult to sift through all the trumpeting green messages out there.  Indeed, even after you tune out the plain old greenwashers, even if you ignore advertising completely, [...]

The “special” at my local pizzeria went from $5.00 to $5.50 today.  I asked the guy behind the counter why the price went up.
“Ethanol,” he said, and shrugged his shoulders.
Which got me to thinking.  Lately, I’ve been pretty much immune to things like rising gas prices and fare hikes.  In fact, the last time I [...]