April 2007 | The Global Intelligencer

Reinventing the wheel

by Cate Montana

SAN CARLOS, CA – What goes from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, has one moving part in its motor, a top speed of 130 mph, and is a joy to drive? The new zero-emissionsTesla Roadster. Oh yeah – and it’s all electric, has a driving range of 200+ miles, and can be fully recharged in 3.5 hours plugged into an AC outlet in your garage.

While Detroit motor companies whine about California emissions standards and jump on the bandwagon to create wimpy hybrids yet continue to build SUVs that get 13 miles to the gallon, a couple of guys from California with a penchant for sexy wheels, a passion for the environment, and an entrepreneurial streak as wide as the Bonneville Salt Flats have stepped up to the mark with a goal to revamp the auto industry in style.

“Sustainability and resource depletion are among our deepest concerns,” says Martin Eberhard, CEO and co-founder of Tesla Motors. “We set out to design a car that combines style, acceleration and handling with advanced technologies in order to make the Tesla Roadster a viable alternative to fossil-fuel cars.”

The Oneness Movement

by Barbara Bottner and C. Montana

“Joy is our natural state,” says Rohanna Salom, doctor of Oriental Medicine in Valley Village, California. “But we seem to have forgotten our true nature.”

Of all the 21 st century organizations working to heal this condition, one of the newest and largest is undoubtedly the Oneness Movement, started in Chennai, India in 1991 by twin avatars Sri Bhagavan and Sri Amma. The declared intent of the Oneness Movement is to uplift humanity’s consciousness from a state of chronic separation and suffering into a state of enlightenment - the awareness of wholeness and oneness – mainly through an energy transmission process called the Oneness Blessing or Oneness Deeksha. Currently acknowledged as teachers and bringers of enlightenment and god-realization by more than 20 million adherents around the world, Sri Bhagavan and Sri Amma’s goal is to bring enlightenment to a minimum of 64,000 people worldwide by the year 2012.