In case it’s been a while since you took a course in literature, allow me to refresh you on the concept of irony- in literature irony can defined as an unexpected twist in the story. In reality we find perhaps the greatest example of irony...
Archive - June 2008
I have to admit that I am a talk radio junkie. I was just getting up this Saturday and since my usual talk radio was in re-broadcasts, I was listening to the Oprah and Friends radio network. The founder, chairman, president and chief executive...
When it comes to traditional oil-based gasoline, there is a factor to consider that often goes overlooked: Distribution. We like to envision biofuels (ethanol in particular) as a more readily abundant resource that will flow along the same rusty...
Today is World Environment Day, organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the slogan for this year is “CO2, Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy”. New Zealand is this year’s host, with events taking...
Hummer, or as David Hirsch of Friends of the Earth calls it “the most anti-environmental vehicle in the history of the world”, might soon become a thing of the past, at least in the US. The drastic fall in demand for the vehicle has...
