This is pretty cool. Get a pollution forecast for your part of London.

YourAir, air quality forecasts for your street

I'm finding myself reading World Changing and AltEng quite a bit recently. To get a sense of what's going on re : alt. energy, and intersections of internet culture, technology and the environment.

The big news seems to be Solar is hot! Particularly lots of variants on arrays of parabolic mirrors. Also intriguing to me is Solar cooking. They're talking about it on Tribe too. This makes me happy somehow.

Also, a quick outline of Brazil's alcohol policy. Unfortunately, our alcohol based car was stolen, and the new one is petrol. But apparently you can now get "flex" conversions which allow you to use either. We'll be doing this shortly.