published November 11, 2010 and has No Comments
Photos: Brian Merchant You probably haven't heard much about Volkswagen's forays into the electric car realm -- frankly, until recently , there hasn't been much to talk about. But that's finally changing, as the world's second largest carmaker just unveiled its Golf Blue E-motion electric car. Slated for a 2014 release, the e-motion will essentially be an electrified version ...
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Today on Planet 100: Sunburned Whales (Video)
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published November 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Ford Quality Small Cars Aren't Just for Europeans and Asians Like car model years, Popular Mechanics is one year ahead with its Auto Excellence Awards. The 2011 prize winners have been announced, and in the "fuel efficiency" category the winner is the Ford Fiesta. They explain their choice by saying that "just about anybody can make a car ...
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published October 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Building the Transportation System of 2050 Public transportation has to be improved significantly in many parts of the U.S., but that's not going to happen magically. There are lots of people working on moving things in the right direction (activists, urban planners, politicians, citizen groups, bloggers, etc), and some of them recently met last week in Portland for the ...
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published October 14, 2010 and has No Comments
Janette Sadik-Khan Explains How the Select Bus Service Works New York City has launched a new "Select" bus service on the East side of Manhattan, bringing the city closer to having its own bus rapid transit line. The video above, which was made by our friends at StreetFilms , shows very well just how much improvements can still be ...
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published October 14, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Elliot Brown / Creative Commons With a new study just released revealing that half of Americans would get a failing grade if test on climate change knowledge and The Guardian reporting that the BBC blew its budget covering the Chilean miners' rescue and can only aff... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published October 11, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: City-Data Today, president Obama resumed a push for an infrastructure package he first announced a month ago on Labor Day. The $50 billion plan, intended to strengthen American highways, railroads, and runways, would create jobs and provide much-needed repairs to the nation's transit systems. It would especially benefit the construction industry, which has been hit hard by the ...
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published October 11, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Bike Doctor App From reading Treehugger on your iPhone to measuring air pollution with your android , there's no doubt that smart phones can enable greener, cleaner living. Now a new smart phone app is aiming to make one important green task a whole lot easier—bike repair. Gone are the days of getting stranded across town with ...
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published October 7, 2010 and has No Comments
The high speed rail lines at stake -- red has partial funding, gray is proposed. Image via the Transport Politic As a dreamer of the American high speed rail dream, this news just makes me sad: the Republican candidates running for governor in Ohio, Florida, California, Wisconsin, and elsewhere, have all pledged to kill the rail projects in their ...
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published October 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Bioasphalt developer Chris Williams and paving machine.Credit: Photo by Mike Krapfl/Iowa State University Asphalt is usually made from the bottom of the barrel , the dregs of the oil refining process. But then along came the tar sands and better technologies for refining heavy oil into gasoline, and the price has climbed. John has noted that it has got ...
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