"What's old is new again"

That's an expressions I seem to be using a lot lately... and an idea reported on in today's National Post provided yet another chance to use it.

Here's my two cents on it... brilliant! Inventor Stephan Wrage has designed a new generation of "sail" for cargo ships, which have the potential to reduce a freighters fuel consumption by up to 20%... which, if equiped on all freighters in the world, would right off the bat reduce our global emissions by almost 1%... nearly 8,000,000 tonnes of CO2.

Now this is the sort of thing we ought to be pursuing in our efforts to reduce our emissions... a little common sense, and a willingness to try a new, or in this case, an old, idea.

Now, if we can just get people to stop buying those monster SUV's as a single person commuter vehicle...