CNSNews.com - Transportation Secretary Explains 'Sea Change' He Envisions for U.S. Transportation

(CNSNews.com) – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Friday that Americans are “tired” of the congestion caused by motorized transportation, and instead are looking for other options such as bicycle lanes and walking paths, which the government will add to its infrastructure.

World Climate Report » Red Wine Story

So with elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, we can get generally higher alcohol content, more yield of grapes, and no decline in wine quality? Skip cap and trade—we see nothing but a better world with the benefits on higher levels of CO2.

BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Guest Article: Oil, coal, and thoughts on a fossil-fuel conscious life

My family gave up driving in 2006, and while I felt very keenly the link between the easy-peasy availability of cheap oil -- along with the permissive attitude toward coal mining and coal-burning power plants -- and the looming effects of global warming, it seemed as if people with the same attitude as I were few and painted with an extremist brush. What would it take for others to see how our attitudes toward driving (and ubiquitous plastic, water bottled and trucked around the globe, conventional agriculture, and other obscene uses of petroleum) were more sensible and caring, less radical and unforgivably left-wing?

[Flashback: In addition to his new Montecito mansion and his Nashville mansion, does Al Gore own yet another home and a multimillion-dollar condo?]

They have a new multimillion-dollar home in a tony section of Nashville and a family home in Virginia, and have recently bought a multimillion-dollar condo at the St. Regis condo/hotel in San Francisco.