Interesting news from ENN,
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
By David Suzuki
This month, millions of children around North America went back to school. But most didn't walk or ride their bikes. Most of those kids were driven. And it's making them fat.
In fact, our suburban, car-centric society is partly responsible for the near-epidemic levels of obesity for all age groups in North America, according to recent reports in the American Journal of Public Health and the American Journal of Health Promotion.
Researchers developed a "sprawl index" to measure patterns of development in communities across the United States. Then they compared the levels of suburban sprawl with the health of 200,000 people living in those communities...(Read on in: Suburban sprawl is bad for people and the planet)
A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
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