The Pennsylvania Turnpike is part of my American heritage. Rolling into a toll booth, I look at it as the gateway to a national treasure of transportation history. I have a vested interest in supporting and preserving it, whether that just means not throwing trash at it or becoming actively involved...

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountaintop it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make -- leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone -- we all dwell in a ho...

I just received a hard sell email from Pennsylvania Transportation Partners for leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It seems that their plan is the "only" source and "only" plan. It will create "safety". Perhaps the most telling part of the email is "there are more than $12.8 billion reasons to lease...

I visited the good folks at chumby two weeks ago with my friend Sasamoto. We've gone on a whirlwind tour of web2.0 companies for one of his clients. Chumby is located in San Diego and it was my first visit on the tour. I keep telling people about this cool device that allows you, me, your friend...

Irving Oil Ltd., the energy arm of the Irving family's East Coast conglomerate, is looking at producing electricity from the powerful tides in the Bay of Fundy as a way to diversify into renewable energy. Company spokeswoman Jennifer Parker said the studies could cost a total of $600,000. Experts sa...

Interesting New York Times story about people questioning the electromagnetic fields in a hybrid car. (Fear, but Few Facts, on Hybrid Risk 4/27) The underlying premise of the story is that some people are using hand held meters that read electromagnetic fields and are worried, while manufactures say...

It's hard to imagine all the energy, fossil and human, that are spent on campaigning. You have the vehicles (and planes) that drive them around, their support vehicles and the local support vehicles that support the support vehicles, the vehicles that drive the support people and all the people who ...

Ministering to the environment and farmers by purchasing power. This year, more than 2,130 congregations across the USA will use "eco-palms". From a pilot program of 5,000 in 2005 to the 600,000 eco-palms ordered (usatoday/news/religion) this year, the March 16 celebration brings new meaning of sust...

The car was a Guinness record holder set in 1973 in a contest sponsored by Shell Oil Co. and then it disappeared into a museum in Florida. The mileage from the mostly stock four-cylinder came from heating and insulating the fuel line so the gas entered the engine as lean vapor. Then they drove the c...

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search. Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color ...