- About a quarter of a million American water mains burst every year.
- Henry David Thoreau once started a campfire to cook some fish he had just caught and inadvertently burned down 300 acres of Connecticut forest.
- Wind energy employs more people than coal mining.







E. J. Garcia says:
1. No wonder the water is so expensive here in Florida, despite being surrounded by seawater in three directions and sitting on top a vast deposit of groundwater.
2. Poor bastard (emphasis on bastard, however). I am currently studying Thoreau and other authors of the “American Romantic Period” at my English class in high school.
3. Apparently, the Pickens Plan goes much deeper than I actually thought it did.
Just trying to have a little fun, have a nice day!
January 7, 2010, 9:10 pm