published July 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Induction Lamp photo: EcoLivingCentre The Alternative Technology Association has been enlightening readers with Renew magazine on technology for a sustainable future now for 30 years, albeit with a name change from Soft Technology magazine back in 1996. Their 30th Birthday issue is now out and remains as jammed packed with wonderful information as it did three decades ago. There's ...
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published July 2, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Credit: Wired There's something looming in the rear view mirror of Smart cars everywhere, and it's the work of Gordan Murray, designer of the famous McLaren F1 (top speed: 240 miles per hour). Murray's latest conceit tops out at a comparably puny 90 mph, but here's the thing: it gets an astounding 74 miles per gallon- in the ...
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published July 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Zero Carbonista You know something has gone amiss when someone posts video #12 in a series of 6. But despite reaching speeds of 100mph in his "wind-powered" electric car , wind turbine entrepreneur (and renewable energy millionaire ) Dale Vince has clearly had trouble getting the project finished. I reported back in April that he was still ...
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published June 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Sigh. While we write about a world after cars, where people live in walkable cities, Francesco Gatti is building a drive-thru museum in Nanjing, China. The whole thing is a cross between some complicated origami and a parking garage; one drives through exibits to the parking on the roof, then gets out of the car and looks at exhibits ...
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published June 22, 2010 and has No Comments
Remember $4.00 gas? How it killed the Hummer and changed habits? Conservative columnist David Frum does, as he hits TreeHugger two days in a row for being....sensible. No wonder he got fired from the American Enterprise Institute. He writes in CNN.com about the tough but necessary slog to get off oil: President Obama is right: We can take the ...
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published June 14, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Green Prophet Not all of the oil burned in the United States is used to power cars and trucks. The majority of it is, but not all -- there are myriad other uses as well, many of which fly under the radar. This may seem like obvious stuff, but it's worth reiterating -- especially considering that some ...
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published June 10, 2010 and has No Comments
All photos courtesy of Stuart Schwaartzapfel, Man on the Move No car made a better candidate for getting an EV upgrade than the Smart Car -- it is, after all, a compact, urban commuter vehicle that's securely endeared itself to drivers who value efficiency and innovation. The tiny two-seater was just begging to be made electric from the day ...
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published June 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Landes in D.C. Another reason to take the train: It has long been known that eating while driving can kill you by increasing the risk of accidents; now a new study shows that it can increase the risk of food poisoning. Dr. Anthony Hilton of Aston University said in the Daily Mail : "People would be horrified at the ...
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published June 10, 2010 and has No Comments
image via Wired TreeHugger previously suggested six good reasons for lowering the speed limit; now, Wired points us to a new Dutch study that adds a seventh: Lowering the speed limit to 50 MPH can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 30%. They appropriately title their ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published June 9, 2010 and has No Comments
Ray LaHood's vision of how we will get to work That is the title at Planetizen that Tim Halbur writes, that sums up a discussion about whether initiatives to get people out of their cars and to create more walkable cities are socialist plots. George Will recently called Ray LaHood "Secretary of Behavior Modification." Will writes in Newsweek: ... ...
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