Province wavers on tire burning in Ontario

Ontario Tire Stewardship is still promoting tire burning, even after four years of public comment and legal argument illustrating how the practice threatens the environment. It also fails to meet provincial law and...

How to Recycle

As it is National Recycling Week from November 10 to 16, here are some tips on how to recycle some of your most basic household waste.Water:"Recycle water in your shower. Most people like to run the water until it...

FireFighters Fight Separate House Fires

"(WIVB) - It was a busy night for volunteer firefighters across western New York. Firefighters are still trying to determine what sparked two house fires overnight. A tanker truck provided the water...

Panasonic Toyota Racing & The Dark Knight at Silverstone :: The EDJE

" Batmobile Facts: The Batmobile is around 10 feet at its widest point, 15 feet long and 5 feet high. It runs on unleaded fuel and weighs 2.5 tons. The vehicle has six wheels - two in the front, outfitted with...

Egypt: Bread Protest Leaves 10 Dead!

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSomething is seriously wrong in our Society, when a life is worth more than a Loaf of Bread, as thousands demonstrate against the Egyptian Government rationing of flour,...

May 15th is nylon stockings day!

May 15th marks the 68th anniversary of the first sale of women’s nylons. Du Pont Corporation were the first to introduce them back on May 15th, 1940 and sold over 5 million pair on that day. Celebrate today...

Christie Prody Suffered 2 Broken Legs, But Was Cited For Being A Pedestrian O...

"O.J. Simpson's girlfriend, who had been hospitalized in February after a fall, was back in the hospital, this time with two broken legs and other serious injuries, CBS4 in Miami reported."

Coming off crash at Vegas, Stewart criticizes Goodyear quality

Nascanner.com:  Tony Stewart Complains about the Quality of the offical provider of Rubber for NASCAR.  Tony took a pretty bad hit in Las Vegas last week.  He realted to reporters that, "There isn't...

Suzuki Environment: Small Steps or Big Liability

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorDr. David Suzuki's small steps in helping the environment has many great options for the public to follow in helping the environment, small steps we can all do...

Filling Stations To Become Service Stations, Again! :: Oblate Spheroid

"It has been a long time, but there was a time (in the 1950's through to some of the 1970's) that when one pulled into a "gas station" to fill up, an attendant with a hat and a bowtie would ask the driver for the...

How to Get 76 MPG

"We don’t need new technology to save us, just a little ingenuity. After a few minor tweaks, Ernie Rogers can get up to 76 mpg in his 2003 VW diesel Beetle: He drove 1375 miles…[on] just 18 gallons of...

Bush seeks tougher import and food safety rules

"By Christopher Doering WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Tuesday proposed tougher inspection rules meant to keep dangerous food and other products out of the United States and said he wants broader power to recall food that is unsafe for U.S. consumers. The...

Recycled Used Chopsticks Brought From Guess Where

"BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of Chinese food and product safety scares. Counterfeit, shoddy and dangerous products are...

China's Defective System (and dangerous imports)

 The Communist Party has been trying to fight corruption since 1951, just two years after it came to power, but it has proven utterly incapable of investigating itself. There will be progress only when independent prosecutors can go after senior officials and try them in...

Powered by Garbage

There's one renewable resource that's flown below the radar for quite some time: garbage."Although solar and wind energy are the best-known renewable energies, generating power from biomass is getting a closer look, as societies try to diversify their fuel...

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