- According to a report by the International Whaling Commission, whale watching generates more money than whale hunting. Patrick Ramage, director of Ifaw's whale program, told the BBC, "Whale
watching is clearly more environmentally sustainable and economically
beneficial than hunting, and whales are worth far more alive than
dead."
- On June 29, London will introduce its first high-speed train, the Javelin. The 140-mph train will run on the new Channel Tunnel rail link tracks. The train will stop at the Olympic Village in Stratford in 2012.
- Starting today, Southwest Airlines will begin testing its inflight Wi-Fi service on four aircraft. The airline expects that the service, when implemented on all of its planes, will cost passengers between $2 and $12 to use.
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Very interesting bits of information in this post. The Wi-Fi will be interesting to watch as it developes. In this technology based times, it was only a matter of time. The question will be, how do they regulate so it's not used in harmful ways?
About the same time the referenced BBC whale article came out, The Latin America HT came out with this story:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=337728&CategoryId=13003
which shows a potential (partial) solution to the whaling problem.