New scooter zips along nicely for pennies per mile This headline caught my eye because I am always interested in design that solves problems of the greater good.

This scooter is a zero emmissions vehicle, it is soundless and low cost to power.
The 11K price tag unfortunately makes it prohibitively expensive right now but as we all know technology gets cheaper and cheaper as adoption and demand widens.

I am not entirely convinced electrical power is a sustainable solution. Electric power has it's own implications on the environment but, we have to start somewhere.

This made me think of one my favorite songwriters..
the highly underrated Duncan Sheik who wrote the following in his song White Limousine:

"America, America, this is our reward
Everything is boring, everyone is bored

Maybe a white
Maybe a white limousine
Maybe a white, white, white, white limousine

Who's the smart guy at the wheel
Running out of gas
Likes to wear a flight suit
and fly around for laughs

Maybe a white
Maybe a white limousine
Maybe a white, white, white, white limousine

I feel incentives for the pharmacy
Hey I'm feeling better already
I don't want to be clear
It's too much for me
I'm making up
Oh, I'm making up
For lost time
For all the lost time

We have won the war
We have won the war"

I personally want to proud to be American.
Not ashamed to be part of a consumer-oriented, imperialist, decadent, slovenly, wasteful society who votes in madmen to run the largest economy in the world.

I want to see out future as the innovative, ecologically-minded, progressive, diverse and solution-oriented place we could be.