Politics, pop culture and entertainment news of interest to the LGBTQ community
Out pro hockey player Luke Prokop (photo: Candice Ward)Some news stories you might have missed:
• ESPN: Fans of out pro hockey player Luke Prokop threw a DIY Pride Night for him when his team didn’t organize one. “It meant a lot to me,” Prokop told ESPN. “Seeing all the fans that enjoyed the night … the night is about them, not me.” Continue reading “News: Fans Throw DIY Pride Night For Out Hockey Player + More”
Louw Breytenbach (via Instagram)Some news items you might have missed:
• Queerty: Louw Breytenbach, a former Mr. Gay World pageant winner, has hired a lawyer to defend himself against the organization after it served him with a gag order. Breytenbach refused to sign the final contract when he realized it stipulated the organization would be his exclusive agent for any bookings or acting gigs. Continue reading “Former Mr. Gay World Lawyers Up + More News”
Ok, I think this is pretty cool.
Keeping parks well lit at night can be a costly means to ensure pedestrian and cyclist safety. But a British-based company has come up with a way to turn park paths into glow-in-the-dark thoroughfares that double as energy-efficient works of art.
Created by Pro-Teq, Starpath is a sprayable coating of light-absorbing particles that harvests ultra-violet rays from the sun during the day and dramatically lights up like a starry sky at night. The veneer is non-reflective, anti-slip and waterproof, and can be applied to cement, wood, tarmac or other solid surfaces.
Seeing that local city councils were increasingly shutting off park lights at night to save money, Pro-Teq developed Starpath to maintain public safety without the financial and environmental costs of overhead lighting. It’s a common problem; in the U.S. for instance, cities generally count streetlights as their first or second biggest energy drains.
(via TakePart)
Furnishing every home in America with solar panels would cost less than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined, and would save taxpayers more than $162 billion per year.
Great! Now let’s double them again!
More renewable energy sources help make America self-reliant and keeps jobs here in the states.
Every parking lot ought to look like this. It looks good, it protects the cars from the elements, it would create 10’s of thousands of jobs and would move us towards energy efficiency.
From The Rationalist: Parking structure shades the cars while producing free energy.
Germany has created over 500,000 new jobs by pushing hard into solar and wind energy – providing incentives for everyone to install and as a result, they will be able to move forward with their plans to shut down all their nuclear power plants in the next decade.
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