Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Photos: Paseo a Ciegas Facebook page . In a very interesting initiative that began last January, a group of three non governmental organizations from Mexico City are organizing bike rides for the blind and visually impaired. The rides are guided by volunteers on tandem bikes, and are offered on Sunday mornings, when a few streets in the historical center ...
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One cyclist enjoys a ride on what may be the world's shortest bike path. Oh, wait, that was it? Photo via Globo Well-designed urban bike paths are a cyclist's dream, making it easy for folks to ditch their cars for a more eco-friendly commute . Sometimes, however, it just doesn't seem worth the effort to build them at all. ...
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Image Credit: !ola via Yoxi When challenged to come up with a way to inspire more people to bike for transportation in addition to recreation, three three "former non-bikers" from New York City proposed a campaign to focus on mutual respect between drivers and bikers. The team, calling itself "!ola," was one of four competitors in a contest sponsored ...
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Images via Yanko Design As bike culture comes into its own, many people switching to two-wheeled transportation want to ride with style. From "Cycle Chic" fashion shows in stylish Santa Barbara during National Bike to Work Month, to major designers revamping bikes into fashion statements , c... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more: Beautiful Bent Wood Basket for ...
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Image credit: Huffington Post From Manhattan's Summer Streets to Bogota's Ciclovia , TreeHugger is a big fan of reclaiming asphalt in favor of human interaction. But I'm not sure we've ever seen anything on this scale. A town in Germany recently shut down an entire section of Autobahn—that's right, the famous German highways with no speed limit—... Read the ...
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Photo: Flickr , CC Female cyclists have a hard enough time - we are generally a bit more safety-conscious and reticent when it comes to getting out on city streets , and the athletic among us who do fearlessly dive into bike racing and other cycling sports do so with less support or acknowledgment from the rest of the ...
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Image copyright: McClellanParkTMA.org . In a city where bike theft is a very good reason to make you doubt about riding somewhere, providing parking facilities is almost as important as creating new bike paths . This is the case in Buenos Aires (and many cities around the world), and the reason why it's so good to hear that the ...
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Washington DC Bike Transit Center. Credit: KPG Design Studio. It's not hard to find innovation in bike parking - lots of funky and functional designs are constantly being created for parking fixtures - the staples, rungs, and poles that help cyclists secure their bikes to something in hopes of avoiding theft. But what about cyclists that want more, more ...
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Photo: RichardMasoner , Flickr, CC. This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge . Since a car-crushing accident in 2006, our family went car-free first in Gothenburg, Sweden and now ...
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Photo via Cory M. Greiner . IBM (yes, the IBM) recently released a global study of traffic, surveying over 8,000 adult drivers in 20 major cities. Perhaps the results are not that surprising - traffic is perceived by drivers as getting worse in the last three years. Thirty percent of those surveyed felt increased stress while 27% reported increased ...
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A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
How to grow tastier tomatoes and how to make food taste sweeter without sugar: just two amazing discoveries from a study of the chemical interactions underlying tomato flavor preferences Read the rest here: The Secrets of Tasty Tomatoes Discovered - Can ...
