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Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker
Monday, 12 Jun 2000—Day 127 0
Posted 9 years, 5 months ago -
Reinventing the Wheels
How far can clean cars take us? 1
Posted 9 years, 6 months ago
I loved cars long before I knew there was any reason to worry about their effect on the environment or be concerned about the smoke that poured from their tailpipes. In the 1960s, ignorance like mine was widespread in the United States, maintained by a powerful automotive lobby and a complacent federal government. Highway congestion, though already bad, was somewhat masked by an expanding national highway grid, and most people celebrated the migration to the suburbs that the new roads aided and abetted. Cars were equated with freedom, and ads of the period showed happy vacationing families riding in roomy sedans, with the uncrowded interstate stretching out in front of them.
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Gas ‘n’ Uh-oh 0
Posted 9 years, 8 months ago -
The Magnificent Seven vs. the Baywatch Babes
An excerpt from Seven Wonders: Everyday Things for a Healthier Planet by John C. Ryan 0
Posted 10 years, 1 month ago
When the Dalai Lama of Tibet met with economist John Kenneth Galbraith, he asked the Harvard professor a simple but penetrating question: "What would the world be like if everyone drove a motor car?" The Tibetan leader probably did not intend it, but his question constitutes a koan, a paradoxical riddle of Zen Buddhist tradition. A koan has no logical answer -- "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" -- but the search for a solution may lead to a flash of enlightenment.
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How Many Scientists Does It Take to Screw in a Message? 0
Posted 10 years, 3 months ago -
Congress Is Playing the Ugly Rider Game Again 0
Posted 10 years, 4 months ago