I never knew that there was such a thing as a wooden bicycle, nor did I know that the first bikes were made out of wood. I was dumb enough to assume that all bikes were metal and used ball bearings to support their rims. Silly me.

Great article here on Wooden Bicycles.

Now that’s one bike you should always remember not to park next to a termite mound *snicker*

The Cape Wind Project at the Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts’s is threatened with the possibility of never even getting started due to the worry of it impacting the local Eider population. Some folks are worried that the Eiders might crash into the fast spinning blades of the planned 130 turbine array and cause a lot of bird deaths.
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According to a model generated from data collected by the British Antarctic Survey: this is how the Antarctic would look like without any ice on it and only the actual land mass. Just goes to show how much ice we have on the poles.
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Philippine President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, ordered Dept of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Sec. Angelo Reyes to create a taskforce that will tackle the issue of Climate Change in the Philippines. This is hot on the heals of a UN report, last Feb 2, 2007, that states that humans are the major cause of global warming.

Initial Members of the taskforce will be the Secretaries of the Dept of Science and Technology(DOST) and the Dept. of Energy (DOE.) There was also the possibility of the output of this taskforce be presented to the ASEAN council where the Philippines is currently the chairing country. Hence the need to draft a plan that will not only be applicable to the Philippines but also to the entire ASEAN region as well.
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Richard Branson announced that he was sponsoring a $25 Million contest with a goal to develop technologies that can help scrub a billion tons of CO2 from our atmosphere.

Present along side him when he made the announcement were Former US VP Al Gore and former UK diplomat Crispin Tickell. The contest will be judged by a panel comprising of Branson, Al Gore, Crispin Tickell, U.S. climate scientist James Hansen, James Lovelock and Environmentalist Tim Flannery.
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