Toyota Unveils Solution For Accelerator Pedals Recall In US - Automotive Business Review : News
Toyota said that in the accelerator-pedal assembly of affected vehicles, condensation resulting from cold-weather use of the heater or other causes may form on the worn surface, of what is known as a friction device.UK comedy goes "Beyond The Pole" to save planet - Yahoo! News
On a tight budget of "several hundred thousand pounds," actors and production crew met their own challenges while on location in Greenland and Iceland.Video: CCAN’s Fifth Annual Polar Bear Plunge | [Sorry, that doesn't look like "nearly 350" people to me]
Temperatures of minus 20 degrees, hungry polar bears, armed local hunters, shifting sea ice, dwindling daylight hours and weather shifts from sunshine to blizzard in 10 minutes made filming conditions difficult to say the least.
In such a harsh climate, the production of "Beyond The Pole" struggled to match its subject matter by being carbon neutral.
"Film is not inherently very green, nor is distribution. We did what we could. I don't particularly believe in offsetting but we did everything we could to make the film as low-carbon as possible," Williams said.
On January 23, 2010 nearly 350 people gathered on a beach outside the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis to draw attention to the climate crisis and highlight the number everyone living on this planet needs to know: 350.Md. polar bear plunge canceled due to extreme cold
It was too cold even for some polar bears on Saturday.
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Several people had to be treated for hypothermia after the first plunge and doctors monitoring the event advised organizers to cancel the second plunge.
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