clipped from: dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com   
air car
Fact or fantasy: Zero Pollution Motors plans to start building its air-powered car by 2011 at the latest. (Zero Pollution Motors)
One is a report on the Wheels blog by my friend Jim Motavalli about the possible rebirth of the “air car,” a vehicle that runs on compressed air
There’s lots more at the link above and in a story on the pneumatic-car technology written by Jim in 2000.
tiny houses
Another is a story about tiny houses, which resonated particularly because on Tuesday night I went to an art show in Beacon, N.Y., organized by friends, including the sculptor Simon Draper, who are building tiny free-standing artists’ “habitats.”
The Times story, by Steven Kurutz, descrbes a growing “small house movement

Have a look and write a (small) comment. Below is a video showing Simon Draper building a tiny artist’s shed (set to music by the songwriter Dar Williams, for whom he’s also building a similar creative nook).