CITY FOLK ARE GREENER, POWERFUL UNDERWEAR, WEIRD WEATHER AND MORE…
By Wayne Shattuck
CITY FOLK ARE GREENER…. Here’s a bit of news to make you feel a little better about yourself. While it is known that cities are hot spots for global warming, it seems that people living in them turn out to be greener than their country cousins. According to researchers at the Brookings Institution, each resident of the largest 100 metropolitan areas is responsible on average for 2.47 tons of carbon dioxide in energy consumption each year, 14% below the 2.87 ton U.S. average. Now those 100 cities still account for 56% of the nation’s carbon dioxide pollution. But their greater use of mass transit and population density reduce the per person average. Which cities are the best and the worst? Lexington, KY had the biggest per capita carbon footprint with each resident on average accounting for 3.81 tons of carbon dioxide in their energy usage per year. At the other end of the scale was Honolulu, HI at 1.5 tons per person.
POWERFUL UNDERWEAR…. Eco-friendly clothing is supposed to be the next big thing in fashion and it seems that our inventive friends from Japan are on top of it! Triumph International Japan Ltd. has come up with the “Solar Power Bra”, which can generate enough energy to charge a cell phone. The lingerie, which is green in color as well as concept, operates on a solar panel that wraps around the wearer’s stomach. This is not the company’s first venture into environmentally friendly underwear: they have also put out a bra that doubles as a shopping bag. (I can’t make this stuff up)
WEIRD WEATHER…. (From Randy Cerveny’s “Freaks of the Storm”) On July 1st, 1955, Sharon Weron, a nine year old South Dakota farm girl was riding her pony through the grassland prairie. Suddenly a thunderstorm built over the area and she turned her horse quickly back toward her home. Unfortunately, as she galloped to within a few hundred yards of her farm, a tornado struck. She and her pony were whipped into the air, over a hill, and across a valley. The girl’s mother briefly saw them both airborne, being carried over a second hill by the tornado. The pony and youngster ended up being carried over three fences and dropped about one thousand feet from where they were picked up by the twister. Both she and her pony survived with just minor cuts and bruises.
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL….November is “National Raison Bread Month”
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