Wal-Mart Starting to Sweat

A suit has been filed in Los Angeles against Wal-Mart for overlooking sweatshop working conditions in a few countries. Workers in six countries launched the class-action lawsuit and lists 15 workers in Bangladesh, Swaziland, Indonesia, China, and Nicaragua.

The plantiffs claim that they were beaten, forced to work overtime – unpaid. Four California planitiffs are also listed, who at first glance seem to have a much weaker case since they claim that Wal-Mart forced their employer to cut wages and benefits.

The class action suit could cover 100,000 to 500,000 workers.

Hydrogen at Point of Use

A Canadian inventor/business man has come up with a reliable way to kick start the hydrogen economy. Most pundits against our hydrogen future claim safety concerns and large infastructure changes to covert our fuel sources to hydrogen. Plus we still need the electical energy to produce the hydrogen. Produce, store, transport, sell, store again and end use. An energy intensive process, and one that is quite shortened with a electrolysis hydrogen generator that small and cheap enough to be plced in the car. Using only distilled water electronics within the car breaks down the water into hydrogen and oxygen for use directly powering the car. The advantage being its safer since only enough hydrogen is produced for the time of use and it eliminates storage, transportation and infastructure.

See the full story in the Montreal Gazette

Safeway to use Sustainable Energy

Good form of power- windThe U.S. grocery-store chain Safeway plans to start using wind power. In something that can best be described as irony they will use wind power to supply energy to their gas stations in the U.S.

They will also use wind energy to power their corporate offices and even some stores in the San Francisco Bay area. A total of 270 gas stations and 15 grocery stores will be powered by wind.