Everyone needs a little time off the treadmill:

Texas drought reveals forgotten ghost town. Well, at least they didn't run the state highway over Boot Hill Cemetery, like they did in Tombstone.........

There are hundreds of thousands of vacant and deteriorating square feet within Chicago's old meat packing district. One visionary turns a 93,000 square foot decaying behemoth into a green net zero food producing facility....................The article makes it sound like Biosphere 2, except it may actually work........

Former cheese waste is turned into a biodegradable plastic film..........

VW's request for a Chinese off road vehicle design has resulted in a hovercraft, a car that can operate over land or water, and it is fuel cell driven, giving it a zero carbon footprint.........

A Finnish paper and packaging company recently won an award for its paper recycling plant in Barcelona. The plant strips the paper and plastic aluminum laminate out of juice boxes, recycles the paper and aluminum and uses the plastics for heating the plant.........

De Moines has a riverfront? You don't say.....a restauranteur wants to use it for a floating venue.............

One year after banning polythene, a local government plans to use it to pave roads.......

Those darn Aussies, already lookin' spiffy in their one sided up fedoras, now are wearing wool sweaters that are bullet resistant.....and it works even better in the rain!

Your food may soon be coming with edible tags that help food producers track lots, tell parents if you ate your broccoli for lunch, and may even tell you when it's not safe to eat.......

Speaking of food, you know that fruits and veggies are better for you than meat, and meat also makes a larger imprint on the planet per acre. But what if we could reduce land needed by 98% with 35 to 60% reduction in energy by growing it in a test tube........? Guess what, already done with fish and pork, and mighty tasty, too. Haven't you ever eaten at McDonald's?

Already proven on resort employees, uniforms from recycled plastic could be heading towards the military, with a 66% reduction in energy to produce.......

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Grandpa was wrong!!!!!!

My grandfather was a cook, and he made the best fried chicken I had ever had, and my grandmother was no slouch in the kitchen. I noticed he never ate it though. One day I asked him why. He said: "Chickens are the dirtiest animal in the barnyard. Even pigs are cleaner animals than chickens, why, chickens eat their own poop!"  Being a ravenous teenager, this did nothing to keep me from enjoying my Grandpa's fried chicken, but imagine my surprise and humor when I discovered years later that naturally raised chickens (in the barnyard) did not have salmonella because the chicks that ate their mother's poop benefited from several natural bacteria that rendered salmonella harmless. These bacteria and microbes passed from mother to chicks through the barnyard feces also help to combat campylobacter, which is more prevalent than salmonella and causes far more illnesses. This little story brings us to an article about whole room disinfecting used by the pharmaceutical industry and how it can be applied to food processing....... and how the lowtech barnyard of yesteryear was so much better for us than what we have today................................

How about a hybrid race car for your daily commute? With this and a rocket launcher, you can be at work in five minutes.....................

We should probably put this on the Green Construction Page, but the White Goat uses 40 sheets of standard office paper and water to make a roll of toilet paper in about 30 minutes. What about the quality? Sears and Roebuck Catalogue or super soft.....?

Islands in the stream, islands in my dreams................Dollar signs in the eyes of South Korea developers..........Steel islands with mega-attractions.....................

How about helicopter and portable drilling rigs. They are called Heliportable Drilling and coming to a scenic preserve near you........Impenetrable jungles, shorter drilling season because of Alaska permafrost, now you are ours...........

Butt naked in Manhattan and there goes the rest of the neighborhood, too. A hotel with glass walls....where is NYPD when you need them? There ARE things you would just as soon not see.......................................

The healthiest water on earth may belong to the Russians. A pristine lake separated from the earth millions of years ago beneath two miles of ice cap.They should use it to make their Vodka........

Boston firefighters get oxygen masks for pets

If the symptoms don't kill you, the doctor will....tales from the British Navy Archives..........

Let's go to Antarctica.....in 1959

Are we talking sports, or what? Texas panthers vs Florida panthers...new gene pool extends life of Florida's big cats.....

Abrasive, opinionated and third generation Italian immigrant, Casa D' Ice signs are now famous................

The Old Farmer's Almanac has a 2011 article about the Facts Behind the Folklore.........

We have all heard about Elvis and peanut butter and banana sandwiches...but did you know he fried them?......

Robbers trade dye pack cash for car wash quarters, then find out it's easier to just work for a living..........