Stirling Engines

"These are Stirling dishes, the Daddy of Solar Power Systems. And they may be about to solve the energy crisis facing the cities of the American West."

"People want to run their air conditioners, their computers, their lights during the day and we run out of energy. We have a solar furnace 90 million miles away that provides life for all of Earth. In the past we've been unable to harness that potential because the efficiency, the cost, etcetera of the system just didn't make it viable."

Burning Our Food?

"At the same time many forms of biofuels are being questioned as effective tools in the fight against global warming. While more recently they're being blamed for the rising global food crisis.

"Climate change activists such as Ben Wikler of avaas.org are skeptical of the benefits of most biofuels being used today."

Ben Wikler: "Biofuels were heralded as this fantastic way to move away from fossil fuels, because unlike fossil fuels, when you use ethanol, for example, in a car it burns less carbon when you're actually driving the vehicle. And also it's a renewable resource..."

Azizah

98% of Indonesia's lowland forest will be gone by the time Azizah is 25. Most is destroyed to make palm oil, which is used in Dove products.

Talk to Dove before it's too late.

Unilever, the makers of Dove beauty products, are buying palm oil from suppliers who destroy Indonesia's rainforests. We've got the proof. They're causing forest destruction, species extinction and climate change.

Blue Man Group

"Your Attention Please.

Thank you for choosing Earth as your planetary vehicle.

We hope you enjoy the many wonderful features of this planet as you hurtle through the cosmos.

Please note however:

That in the event of continued inaction in the face of global warming...