Despite tougher drug policies in this country, Americans were twice as likely to have tried marijuana than the Dutch, according to the survey. In fact, Americans were more likely to have tried marijuana or cocaine than people in any of the 16 other countries, including France, Spain, South Africa, Mexico and Colombia, that the survey covered.
America’s Best Places For Alternative Energy July 11, 2008
The “cubic mile of oil”–a metric roughly equivalent to the amount of oil consumed worldwide each year–is frequently used to explain the challenge facing solar, wind, geothermal and biomass power.Just as with oil, gas and hydroelectric, some places are just better than others for generating different types of power.
The World’s Largest Dump: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch July 11, 2008
In the central North Pacific, plastic outweighs surface zooplankton 6 to 1.
