The other day I blogged about the "Greenest" gym I know. Today I’d like to take that a step further and talk more about the concept of harnessing human power and using it to reduce our carbon footprint. To me it’s a no brainer idea. We can kill two birds with one stone. Help encourage more human movement. Which is more than needed with the obesity epidemic. And at the same time we can reduce our impact on the environment because we’ll be producing energy that can be used for things like operating laptops, TV’s and re-charging cell phones. Doesn’t that make sense in this day of electronic everything? We’re fat and we’re obsessed with our computers, email, video games and our TV’s. Why not burn FAT while we’re feeding our obsessions? The technology is out there and not yet mass produced, but my hope is to spread the word and generate (no pun intended) enough interest that the idea becomes viral and before long it will become main stream. Check out this video. Senior at MIT Kendra Johnson and her team came up with this pedal powered bike that operates a laptop. I need one of these. Wouldn’t this make e-mail more productive?
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