Isn’t that fabulous? The ultimate surf-hippie icon, re-imagined for a low energy world. It was conceived a couple of years by the Canadian industriall designer Alexandre Verdier, but I only just came across it.
This story in The Guardian tickled my fancy. Andy Pag, a 24-year-old Londoner, is planning to drive from the UK to Mali in a lorry powered… by chocolate.
This is the kind of story that appeals to the short-trousered boy in me.
A solar-powered plane has just broken the record for solar-powered flight, albeit unofficially, staying aloft for 54 hours.
I had a great comment a few days ago from Claire, who had set up the car-sharing site Freewheelers with her partner about 15 years ago, and I thought it worth turning some of her comment into a post.
Having had my own bike nicked earlier this year, I probably didn’t find this as funny as thegreenguy did:
Lowering our footprint is going to be a mixture of finding new solutions, and going back to old ones. Sometimes new tech is good. Sometimes old works just as well. There, for example, are dozens of sites trying to harness the power of the internet to help us to car-share…
