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Is a Coconut Car Coming Your Way?

One day soon the car you buy may be made partly out of coconuts, with a poor farmer thousands of miles away reaping great benefit. If a plan developed by engineering students and their professor at Baylor University lives up to expectations, that farmer will triple his annual income of about $500. It all started a few years ago when engineering professor Walter Bradley set out on a very specific search. "I wanted to find an abundant, renewable resource that is grown exclusively in countries...Full Story
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