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Writer and amateur scene photodocumentarian Gerry Visco just put up a set of photos on her Flickr entitled Lady Jaye Memorial by Genesis P-Orridge that is well worth checking out.

I’m very excited to announce that I know have official Waking Vixen tee shirts available, yay!

The last four months represent the first period since the 1980 gas crisis that there was a reduction in cumulative miles driven by US citizens.

Do they still call Ted Turner the “The Mouth of the South” since he bought a couple of States out west? In any case, he makes predictions on PBS that make Jim Kunstler look positively utopian. On not taking drastic action to correct global warming:

Great news; there is no green premium! By demonstrating how going green can fit any budget, David Bach shows that good environmental and financial decisions go hand-in-hand. Bach’s “Go Green, Live Rich” gives great tips, useful to everyone, about how to s

The Boeing Research & Technology Europe team in Madrid, Spain, modified a two-seat Dimona motor-glider and installed a hybrid propulsion system based on a hydrogen fuel cell and lithium-ion batteries.

Peter Gorrie of the Star makes some interesting points about cul-de-sacs.

In what eyewitnesses described as some kind of terrible dream come true, a warm and viscous liquid identified only as blood…dear God, blood…spilled forth from every conceivable direction Monday.

Andrew Maynard asks the question of how suburbanites will live without gas.

Until now, birds got nearly all the credit for keeping organic coffee plantations where pesticides are banned insect-free, but a study from the University of Michigan has shown that during the summer wet season, bats eat more bugs than the birds at Finca

The “flip-side” of having large amounts of methane gas gradually escape the Arctic’s thawing permafrost is that some of it could eventually be harnessed to generate electricity.

It was always considered so, and is actively promoted in the US with mortgage interest deductibility. However it has also perhaps had some detrimental environmental effects, including sprawl, long commutes and far more cars on the road than a system where

How did New Yorkers become so disconnected from the bodies of water that surround them and how can they reclaim the relationship?

“I bought an 8hp Briggs & Stratton ETEK motor used through Craigslist,” said Benjamin Nelson. “Then I mounted the motor to the frame using the existing engine mounting holes and a piece of scrap aluminum plate. I found a sprocket and chain in the tractor

check out the Jump Bike a custom job that’s a different kind of hybrid bicycle. Instead of pedals, you power the bike by saddling up and walking (or running) along with it.

More volcanic activity could become the norm in future centuries as global warming-induced ice melting gathers apace.