• Catch a free White Stripes concert by taking the bus. Transit takers in Winnipeg got an unexpected 2-song show for just the cost of bus fare. (image by thom_johnston)
• Make organic beer, win stuff. Enter the first National Organic Homebrew Challenge, and hopefully get your beer hosted in professional breweries or win $150 in organic homebrewing supplies. (via Beer Activist)
• A chilled plastic bottle of water: “perfect symbol of this moment in American commerce and culture.” This engrossing, detailed Fast Company article notes that FIJI water facility’s run by 3 big diesel generators. “More than half the people in Fiji do not have safe, reliable drinking water. Which means it is easier for the typical American in Beverly Hills or Baltimore to get a drink of safe, pure, refreshing Fiji water than it is for most people in Fiji.” (thanks Joseph)
• Al Gore’s son seems to have a habit of getting behind the wheel drunk and stoned. And with Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall handy. He does, however, drive a Prius. A blue one.

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