While leviathan music festivals like the Glastonbury are likely to be more familiar, some wonder about the impact and sustainability of events where a mass of tents with the population of a small city is assembled and then dispensed with in the space of a weekend. That's where a festival like WOOD comes in. Small but perfectly formed, WOOD is the UK's coolest summer music festival. And the best bit? It's powered by completely renewable energy sources.
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image via KK’s Street Use The modern bicycle as we know it, originated from the “dandy horse,” invented in 1816 by German baron Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Drais de Sauerbronn. Notwithstanding this, there have been countless bicycle-like designs beforehand. Indeed, yonks ago two-wheelers were not made of metal, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 23, 2008
It’s probably not a surprise to anybody to hear me say that Detroit is having severe difficulties coping with an Asian newcomer right now. It might, however, come as a bit of a shock to hear that rather than some new hybrid automobile, the state best known for [...]
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