This junk car was turned into a mini playground in Ireland.

2.7 million Canadians struggle to get enough to eat each year, 37% of which are children. Hunger has become a reality for too many Canadians. No Canadian should go hungry. Come out to support this year’s Kamel Cup Charity event, with Suresh Joachim, to help fight hunger in our local community.  Event sponsored by our partners at Standard Auto Wreckers

The world record challenge started today at 2pm and here is the video!

You just might see some of these donated to charity soon rather than later, as the Indian automaker Tata is to test the European markets for the potential of launching one of its tiny vehicles.

The firm, which famously produces the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, is reportedly set to unveil a three-door, four-seat vehicle at this week’s Geneva Motor Show, to see how European audiences react to a small Indian-built city car.

Tata has repeatedly said that it is considering bringing the Nano to western markets but has been faced with a slew of problems with the vehicle, along with the task of completing the considerable modifications necessary to bring the safety standards up to European or North American standards while maintaining the low cost.

Last year, it was forced to defend the Nano’s safety after a series of fires affecting the vehicles, offering free upgrades to win back the affection of the Indian market.

Last week, the Nano finished bottom of a customer satisfactions survey from global market research firm TNS Global, with the company saying that “the owners of Tata Nano expect more in terms of design.”

My guess is that the Tata won’t make many in-roads into the UK market just yet.

But fret not,  they won’t be gone for good!  Just long enough for The Digital Life Sacrifice’s internet campaign to raise a million bucks!  K im Kardashian has posed dead in a coffin for a new advert promoting The Digital Life Sacrifice, an internet campaign in which stars including Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Usher will quit social networking sites to raise money for charity.

As a part of the campaign a host of celebrities will log off social networking sites and not sign back in until 1 million dollars has been raised, reports the Daily Mail.  It is being organised by Alicia Keys’ Keep A Child Alive charity for World AIDS Day on Tuesday. Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Seacrest, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams and Swizz Beatz are also taking part.  I love unique campaigns like this and wish them well and am sure they will hit the one million mark quickly!!

We have all heard that going green will help save the planet but how about saving a couple of local teenagers?

A pile of recycling likely saved the lives of two Vancouver teenagers who plummeted down a seven-storey building shaft on Canada Day. A boy and girl, both 18, along with two friends were hanging out on the roof of a heritage apartment building at 1601 Comox Street in Vancouver’s West End on Thursday night.

The teens were leaning against a wooden structure on the rooftop of Grace Court apartment building when it gave way, sending them down an abandoned shaft, according to a statement released by the Vancouver Police Department..

A heap of recycling broke their fall and saved them from “life-threatening injury,” the statement said. The teens, who don’t live in the building, sustained several injuries, including a broken leg for the male.

Jake, a building resident who did not want to give his last name, said he heard a huge crash just after 8 p.m. “It sounded like someone dropped an armoire down the stairs,” he said.

He left his apartment and saw a teenager running up the fire escape. “He just kept saying, ‘I think my sister is dead. She fell through the roof ’.” He followed the teen up to the roof, where he saw a large hole where the building’s light shaft lies. He looked down the hole and saw a girl crumpled and crying at the bottom of the shaft and a boy who was motionless. “My heart sank,” he said.

The shaft ends in what looks like a closet near the laundry room – a space that happens to house the building’s recycling. The building’s property manager is a dedicated recycler and residents collect their cans and bottles and return them for cash, which is donated to charity, he said.

Police consider the incident an assistance call and are not criminally investigating, police spokeswoman Constable Jana McGuinness said in an interview on Friday.  These are two lucky kids, hope they support green initiatives their whole lives.