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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Photo: Jean-Jean-François Gornet under a Creative Commons License Vélib', Paris' bike-share system , has come a long way sing it was first introduced in July of 2007. From 10,000 bikes to 17,000, and 750 rental stations to 1,202 (that's one every 300 meters), Vélib' has become the largest system of its kind in the world. With its fourth birthday ...
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Photo credits: Bikes for the World Bikes for the World donates used bicycles to non-profit community programs in Africa and Central America "to enable the poor to hold jobs, attend school, and obtain health services." To date they've processed about 50,000 bikes valued at over $2 million USD. But now they'd like your help. They're seeking space to house ...
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Photo credit Edenpictures via flickr. As a new or continuing city cyclist, you are bound to hear the admonishment: "Don't ride on the sidewalk. It's dangerous." I swallowed that Kool-Aid for quite a while. After all, I want cycling to be a respected part of the transport infrastructure, I want cyclists to be generally law abiding and not continually ...
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Photo credit by batega via flickr. In its early days, Barcelona's Bicing seemed like an unparalleled success . With 400 stations and 3,000 of the squat, burly red-and-white bikes stationed around the city, Bicing quickly became part of Barcelona's big city atmosphere and was enthusiastically received by inhabitants. But after five years, something scary started to happen, in addition ...
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Photo credit Arvindgrover @ flickr. Never mind that it is hard to define what a "U.N. city" might be, nor why it would be so horrible. Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes said this week that Denver will soon become this unsavory thing, and it's all due to those dang bicycles. Huh? Velophobia, which simmers in Colorado, now seems ...
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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 . For longer than I care to remember I've been a cycle commuter. For short to medium distances I can't think of ...
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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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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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Bikes, many of them stolen, pile up at the Amsterdam bike depot. Photo A.S. It's practically a requirement these days to carry not one but two ponderous bike locks, yet city streets are still thick with bike thieves. A British insurance survey recently suggested a bike is stolen about every 65 seconds in the U.K. and Mike Cavanaugh of ...
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Image: Worldwatch It was with a sad heart I learned that the WorldWatch Institute have decided to mothball their illustrious print magazine after 136 stellar issues.* But at least it goes out with a bang, by including an article on bicycle transport, by senior researcher Gary Gardner. Obviously, at TreeHugger, we're big fans of cycling, which we see as ...
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Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
