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
published March 24, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo: Flickr , CC Something Rare: Bus Rapid Transit Done Right in the US! Our friends at StreetFilms had a closer look at the Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Los Angeles, and what they found makes me very happy. This BRT line, though short, is very well done (there's even a bike path next to it, and ...
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Washington D.C. Bike-Sharing. Photo: Flickr , CC. Five-Fold Increase in Number of Bike Stations Time flies! It wasn't so long ago that the Washington DC bike-sharing pilot project was born, and now it's growing up: "By summer, the D.C. Department of Transportation will have expanded the current Smartbike system from 10 racks to 50 racks." Total number of bikes ...
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Brazilian Boombox bike via OOBject We noted last fall that times being what they were, kids couldn't afford to cruise the streets in cars with the sound turned up, so they were customizing bikes. This turns out to be an entire subculture, with people annoying other people all over the world.... Original post: Dude, Pimp My Boombox Bike
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Image credit: CESAR RANGEL/AFP/Getty Images As you could read in our first post about Barcelona’s bike sharing system written in May 2007 , Bicing started with a bang: 30,000 subscribers in the first 2 months; 15 stations and 200 bicycles to start with. Since then, it has been forced to expand and grow rapidly and now counts 400 stations ...
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B-Cycle's web site , with its video of shiny red-white-and-blue bikes with cute GPS systems and its solar-powered stations, is nearly too slick and pretty. This bike sharing program is the business brainchild of Trek , health insurance conglomerate Humana and Crispin Porter Bogusky , and the advertising touch really shows. Today, Alex Bogusky will talk about his vision ...
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Remember waaaay back in September when we talked about the solar powered Flickr bike ? Well it's made an appearance at ETech 2009. ... Excerpt from: ETech 2009: The Flickr Bike Appears
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Four wheeled bikes, pedal powered quad bikes, quadracycles. Call them what you will, they still promote the idea that human propelled transport can be both fun and functional. Below we have gathered just some of the versions that we’ve spied over the years on TreeHugger. No doubt there are many others we’ve missed to date and our readers will bring ...
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Here is an idea that builds on the idea of bike-share but takes up a lot less space: Shared electric scooters.... See the rest here: We have Shared Bikes, Why Not Scooters?
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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 ...
