A somewhat scary self-running (and endless- goes to the next story) slide-show. Not Shockwave (I use flashblock on the ads, here)
Here's the story:
http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/19/cities-population-pollution-innovation08-cx_tvr_0319futurecities.html

Quoted: More mega cities are coming, most of them in Asia. Are they prepared?

Actually they're in India, Philippines, Lagos (Nigeria), and Mexico City VolcanoCup, too.

I, of course, missed it, altho using candles somehow doubly missed the point (CO₂and using light).

Quoted: CHICAGO (March 29) - From the Sydney Opera House to Rome's Colosseum to the Sears Tower's famous antennas in Chicago, floodlit icons of civilization went dark Saturday for Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.

I'm not sure about the $20 elec = $60 gas. More skeptical scrutiny is needed.

Quoted: Electric car? You already have one : Instead of waiting until you buy a hybrid to reduce your eco-footprint, why not make your vehicle electric now? James Nestor has more on a company that has been converting gas cars to electric for decades.

from the Bryant show. Archived here.

Left a small ball against the earth showing respective volumes of air. On the right, the tiny ball is the water vis-a-vis the size of the earth.
I've heard that the thinness of the atmosphere is similar to the thin veneer of paint on a globe model of the earth.

Quoted: The cost of spinning sand into gold : Ambition might be Dubai's most obvious attribute, but there is a deep environmental cost of its building frenzy. There aren't enough natural resources to back it up. Sam Eaton reports.

& when am I going to have time to read all this. Will someone else read and fave 'em.

Quoted: Television Trust for the Environment's website for the environmental issues report on BBC World Earth Report.

Just sound ridiculous. What do all of you think? (And, of course, there are questions of efficiency in using a electricity powered compressor instead of a battery as the fuel source…)

Quoted: An engineer promises that within a year he will start selling a car that runs on compressed air.

Bad is bad. The only surprise is that he gets paid for this.
(Torres Strait is between Australia and Papua/NewGuinea http://www.answers.com/torres+strait?cat=travel&gwp=13)

Quoted: Dr Benjamin Halpern, of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, US