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I found some great gas saving tips over at edmunds.com:

Change Your Driving Habits (and Save Gas!)
That surge of power off the line wastes more gas than you’d think. Consider these driving tips that will save you money and provide hidden benefits you’re sure to like.

Gas Buying Strategies
Not ready to buy a new car or change the way you drive? Never fear; these fuel-saving tips take the sting out of today’s gas prices.

Another tip I heard on TV the other day is pay in cash at the pump. Many filling stations are offering a 6¢-a-gallon discount for cash customers, to incentivise the use of cash, cutting back on hefty credit-card fees.

Oil and Oil Prices

Review: Who Killed the Electric Car?
Conspiracy theories abound in the automotive world. But this anatomy of the murder of GM’s EV1 raises issues much larger than just the demise of an electric car.

Understanding Oil Prices
Join us for a look at how world crude oil prices are set and the different factors affecting the price you pay at the gas pump.

How Much Oil Is Left?
Are spiking gas prices ever going to drop? The oil companies know a lot, but they aren’t saying much.

Wouldn’t it be great if our kids saw this video and grew up with totally different habits… and started a chain-reaction based on ideas like these?

An American Self-Portrait

“Statistics can feel abstract and anaesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.

This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.”
~Chris Jordan, Seattle, 2007

Thanks Pieter!

Dean Kamen’s latest creation promises to do nothing short of producing clean water from virtually any liquid source (without filters) and generate enough electricity to power about 70 energy efficient light bulbs.

Segway Inventor Makes Water Generator

Kamen estimates the units will cost $1,000 to $2,000 and wants to get these into mass production ASAP so that it can be shipped to the clean-water deprived regions of our earth. Check out this video, its awesome.

Colbert Does Water

Watch it on YouTube.

Thanks Kenny!

The Enchanted Gypsy is one of the most beautifully crafted family homes I’ve ever seen, and an extraordinarily wonderful way to live. A dream life and a life’s dream for me… so inspiring! I literally can’t wait to get started on building and lovingly customising my own bus home to absolute perfection, painting the outside with dreams… and of course, never forgetting to change the bus destination sign as we embark on each new adventure.

Here are my favourite pictures of the interior and exterior:
(all images will take you to a larger version if you give them a click)

more…

Wow, cows have such a grand time. And for one of the earth’s most peaceful, completely vegetarian creatures they should have a grand life. Only in India.

It’s not enough that we look at them and picture them as tasty burger patties, fist them for laughs, force impregnate then separate them from their babies straight after birth into tiny crates for extra soft veal (and more milk for us), go around cow tipping to pass the time with friends, and of course processing many of them at the slaughterhouse while they’re still half alive, but we’ve actually invented even more things to do to them.

I’d heard about these but never seen it for realz. I guess I didn’t believe it till now, just seemed so ridiculous…

Thousands of starfish washed ashore. A little girl began throwing them in the water so they wouldn’t die.
“Don’t bother, dear,” her mother said, “it won’t make a difference.”
The girl stopped for a moment and looked at the starfish in her hand.
“It will make a difference to this one.”
~ Domini

Domini is an investment firm specializing exclusively in socially responsible investing.

“My idea behind going to Nepal was all about escaping, escaping from the daily grind at Microsoft, the conference calls, the emails and just getting away. I went trekking looking for nothing but snow capped Himalayan peaks.”

Room to Read

via Tim Ferris’ The Karmic Capitalist: Should I Wait Until I’m Rich to Give Back?