February 27, 2009

_SOLAR CAR TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD

Tags: Gas, Louis Palmer, natural energy, solar car

After a 17 month journey around the globe, Swiss teacher Louis Palmer pulled into the parking lot outside the UN Climate Change talks in the Polish city of Poznan. He used 0 gallons of gasoline. The small solar car towed a trailer of batteries across 38 countries at a top speed of 55 mph covering around 190 miles per charge. Palmer had the opportunity to taxi around, among others, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Monaco’s Prince Albert and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Palmer plans on repeating his voyage from other forms of natural energy such as hydro-power, geothermal and wind.

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_WHY CHANGE OR DIE™

Would you break a habit, alter a routine or adjust your behavior if your very survival depended upon it? Of course you would, right?

Wrong.

In fact, the odds are nine to one you won’t. It’s been scientifically proven that 9 out of 10 people faced with the choice of either changing or dying will choose to die*.

To the 10% who make the world a better place by changing the status quo, this blog is dedicated to you. To those in the other 90% who aspire to be positive agents of change, we hope you find your inspiration here.

Change or Die.