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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Image credit: World Bicycle Relief When April dared to suggest 6 reasons why the world needs more girls on bikes , she was accused of sexism. Yet from female cyclists' view on podium girls through to concerns about women cyclists' personal safety , there's no doubt that gender issues should be an important part of the conversation wh... Read ...
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Street scene in Tehran. Photo: kamshots / Creative Commons . In the latest example of how tough life can be for would-be women cyclists around the world, the new police chief of the Iranian city of Esfahan has decreed it a crime for women to ride a bike or roller-skate in public -- an infraction he said would be ...
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Photo courtesy SiGNa. Range. It's all about range. The bike pictured above, the Pedego Classic Comfort Cruiser e-bike, has a range of approximately 15 - 30 miles, depending on rider weight and hills. My Sanyo eneloop pedal-assist electric bike gets just around 15 miles (and I start experiencing range anxiety the minute I show just a single "dot" of ...
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Photo via Roz Savage, Credit Phil Uhl "It really does come down to one stroke at a time:" This is what ocean activist Roz Savage told the 100 riders gathered to listen to her speak on day two of Brita Climate Ride -- the 320-mile climate awareness bike trip that started in Eureka, California on Tuesday. Savage, living up ...
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(Photo insert: Warren McLaren /inov8) 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 . Do you remember receiving your first bicycle as a child? A seminal moment for many of ...
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I will not go into detail about why I visited the doctor last night, but after describing my symptoms and being the subject of a rigorous examination, his first question was, "Do you ride a bicycle?" When I said yes, everywhere, he gave me his prescription: "Get a new bicycle seat." I was seriously relieved, but even though my ...
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Images: Abragad, via Flickr When the New York Police blamed cyclists for causing 75% of accidents -- without offering supporting data, the organization Right of Way struck back with a report showing only 25% of bikers at fault , and that only on the assumption that the drivers responsible for bicycle fatalities testified fairly, in the absence of the ...
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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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Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010 results are out soon, and Designboom builds the tension with a release from the short list: A spectacular looking recumbent bike by Jean Davignon.... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from the original source: Ride in Comfort On The City Recumbent
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South African cyclist Aldren Muvhambe. Photo by Nic Grobler via Bicycle Portraits . The sad recent news story about a 5-year-old girl killed by a street-cleaning vehicle while riding bikes with her father in the Turkish province of Konya -- a city that had previously announced plans for the country's first bike-sharing program -- got me thinking about what ...
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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 ...
