Climate Change: Spend Four Minutes on This

I got this VIA Green Roof Growers- take 4 minutes out of your life and watch.

URINE: Not just for gardens anymore!

Someone call Crunchy chicken. Seems there is a new use for pee/urine:
From Inhabitat.com:
Assistant architecture professor Ginger Krieg Dosier recently unveiled a new breed of biologically “grown” bricks that are durable, sustainably manufactured, and easily produced from readily available materials. Called “Better Bricks,” the building material can be “grown” from sand, common bacteria, calcium chloride, and urea (yes, the stuff in your pee) instead of being baked, which consumes a ton of energy.

It seems that producing the 1.23 trillion bricks manufactured per year right now creates more pollution than all the airplanes in the world!
Better Bricks were conceived by Ginger Krieg Dosier, an assistant architecture professor, in a lab at the American University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, as a solution to the enormous environmental impact of producing all of the bricks the world needs each year.

Read more: Researcher Grows Durable "Bio Bricks" From Sand, Bacteria, and Urea Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!

I was planning a soapbox post on alternative energy... and thought, "Man I get so tired of preaching" and Romeo and Sammy Cat said "Papa don't preach get Bill Nye to do it for you!" So, just so I didn't have to listen to my dog and cat break into a Madonna Songfest, here is Bill Nye, The Science Guy talking about alternative energy from RePower America:



And of course The Bill theme: