Many countries are way ahead of the United

Many countries are way ahead of the United States in the shift toward living green. Part of the reason is our car culture, says Ulrike Heine, assistant professor of architecture.

Heine recently presented a paper in Portugal dealing with the differences of construction and culture in America and Germany. She asks why America is so behind in our sense of sustainability. American culture is almost totally dependent on vehicles, Heine says.

The prime minister says: "I think that what we need to do is to look at how you make air travel more energy efficient, how you develop the new fuels that will allow us to burn less energy and emit less. How - for example - in the new frames for the aircraft, they are far more energy efficient."

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The Dennis Millers and David Spades of the world may have frowned on Tom Green, but a laugh is a laugh and if you can't see the craft behind the insanity of this man than this topic isn't even worth discussing.

I won't bore you with things you never knew and I'm far from Tom Greens biggest fan but I always wondered what the hell happened when the show went off the air and his website dwindled down to hardly anything (looks like it's back alive now). After his movies and shortly lived talk show, a ton of questions were left unanswered and I know I was perplexed at how such an amazing show was left in the lifeless dust of Hollywoods crack pipe.

Downing Street was irritated last night that the interview, with Sky News, was quickly interpreted as a snub to attempts to reduce people's carbon footprints. "This is not about the prime minister's travel," a source said.