Brazil's Undiscovered Tribe

These photographs are the first record of a previously undiscovered tribe of people living deep in Brazil's rain forest.

Up until now, there is no record of these people ever having made contact with the outside world, or vice versa.

The men in the photo have painted their bodies with a red-orange paint, and the women have painted themselves black. Is this in response to the plane, which was making its second pass over the area? We can only provide conjecture.

It is amazing to think of all that is yet to be discovered. Just when we think we've got our planet tidilly figured out, something like this comes along. Like the coelacanth, or the rediscovery of the colossal squid, or this tribe furiously defending itself by launching arrows and spears at the plane flying overhead.

This Earth of ours is still full of magic and promise.

Here's the article from the BBC: Isolated Tribe Spotted in Brazil

Brazil: Sugar Heaven!

Good Morning!
I was watching a great series last night on CNN: "We Were Warned: Out of Gas". It was fascinating-looking into the future when we may just run out of gas. We are all talking about it, but they really looked into the scary reality of the situation. What would we do? How would we get our food? How would we travel? How would we function as a society? What are some realistic alternatives?
One place that wont really be effected is Brazil. They have created a real solution. It is working now. It isn't an abstract idea or something that MAY work in future. It is working. They grow million of acres sugarcane and half of it gets made into sugar and the other half into ethanol. 40% of transportation fuel in Brazil is Ethanol. Within the next year, Brazil will not need to import any oil. That's it. That is truly amazing.
Check out this video.

And your car will smell like Molasses! Yum!
Why isn't the U.S. catching on, yet??
We will.
Soon.
Hopefully, soon enough.
Drive Sweet!
Niki