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Driving for a Cause: California man to cross America in ’32 Ford for charity

A common rite of passage is the cross-country road trip, the quintessential way for young Americans to get in touch with themselves and their country before the worries and responsibilities of life come calling. But a 59-year-old California man is blitzing the United States for a different reason: charity. Dave Schaub, the founder of a Bay Area meat market, is driving 9,800 miles in nine days--or 216 hours, during which he

2012 Interior Motives School League Report

In addition to showcasing the talent of student designers, the 2012 Interior Motives Design Awards acknowledged for the first time the achievements of the schools that nurtured them with its inaugural ‘Most Successful School' award. After a close-run battle with Italy's Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) that was eventually decided by just a single point, the award went to London's Royal College of Art. This one-off award for the RCA is backed up by CDN's league table of school success over the past five years, which has now been updated to include the results from the 2012 Interior Motives Design Awards.

Cars aren’t to blame for Global Warming – it’s down to fat people!

Being fat creates an extra tonne of Co2 emissions a year Much as I’m prone to warn against blindly believing the ‘Cars are destroying the Planet’ mantra we hear every day, it’s not me laying the blame at the feet of our chubby readers. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicines has made the claim, for a variety of reasons, explained by Dr Phil Edwards who said “Walking around in a heavy body is like driving a gas guzzler”. But of course, that needs a little extra explanation to put it in to context.