The Great Sunflower Project

By Joanne White, Fork & Bottle Gretchen LeBuhn, an associate professor at San Francisco State, has launched The Great Sunflower Project. It’s a community science project which has a goal to look at the health of local bees and how pollination both wild and garden are being affected. As …

With Vodafone Italian Phones Have a Lot of Energy

From a recent survey Italy turns out to be the first consumer of cell phones in Europe, with an average of 1.22 per head. Italians change them like dresses and the result is a huge amount of old cells in their houses. This passion for cell …

Minneapolis Stops Idling

The city council in Minneapolis MN has adopted an ordinance to prohibit automobiles from idling for more than three minutes. The measure is aimed at reducing atmospheric pollution, but should also be welcomed by anyone who wants to save money, given the currently escalating …

Nuclear-Powered Glaciers

Dredging the bottom of our archives brought up an interesting project by Edinburgh-based landscape architects Gross. Max. to counter the effect of global warming.