• Google.org, Idealab, and Oak Investment Partners have invested $130 million in eSolar, "a company whose basic solar power strategy -- using sunlight-reflecting mirrors to generate steam -- was all but abandoned in the 1980s." ~ Source
• About those plastic-replacing cloth grocery bags that were selling like hotcakes six weeks ago -- you know, the green ones of which Payless Market sold out -- the bags which were going to at least slowdown the monster pile at the Guam landfill -- where are they? Since those things went on sale I have only seen two customers bring them back to the store to reuse. They've now got more cloth bags in stock -- but what's the point if people don't use them?• Automated bicycle parking tower in Tokyo -- capacity 9,400 bikes. I'd be happy for a little three or four bike set-up for our condo! ~ YouTube Link
• Let them eat margarine -- or better yet I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! Actually, in all seriousness, the problem isn't really about butter but global food access. Japan's acute butter shortage, which has confounded bakeries, restaurants and now families across the country, is the latest unforeseen result of the global agricultural commodities crisis. ~ Source
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