Video: Keep Time Square Pedestrian-Friendly!
February 8, 2010 by
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Keep It, And Make It Even Greener Our friend Clarence over at Livable Streets sent us the above video and a call to action: “Hello friends, it is coming close to a decision on whether are amazingly wonderful pedestrian plazas in Times Square will be made per… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Video: Keep Time Square Pedestrian-Friendly!
The Week in Pictures: International Day of Climate Action, Green Halloween, and More (Slideshow)
October 31, 2009 by
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A lot happened this week in green: from readers in the Hollywood Hills to our writers in Times Square, the International Day of Climate Action brought global awareness for climate change; we found out Chinese fruit bats demonstrate unusual sexual behavior–never before seen in adult animals–discovered a lamp that works only with a drop of blood, and rounded up five tips for a greener Halloween. Find out what else happened in the world of green this week in our photo roundup of most popular, most important, and most oddball stories
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Ford Not Sold on Battery-Swapping for Electric Cars
October 30, 2009 by
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A Good Idea that Faces Many Big Challenges I couldn’t resist using that old photo from an experiment that Mercedes did in the 1970s with battery swapping. The modern version of that technology is a lot more automated than this (see our post about Better Place’s robotized swapping station ), but the general idea is the same and not all the auto makers that are working on electric cars are enthused about it.
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Ford Not Sold on Battery-Swapping for Electric Cars
Chicago’s Bloomingdale Rail Could Become Giant, Hydrogen-Producing Greenhouse
October 30, 2009 by
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Image: Bustler When I was in college, a graffiti-writing friend took me to one of his favorite secret spots, a neglected section of elevated train track in Manhattan’s meat packing district.
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Chicago’s Bloomingdale Rail Could Become Giant, Hydrogen-Producing Greenhouse
Rent-a-Goat in Action! Clearing Brush the Way Nature Intended It
October 30, 2009 by
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Photo: Rent-a-Ruminent LLC Could goats be the past and the future? We’ve written many times about goats being used to replace lawnmowers and to clear brush (for example, in Arizona , in North-Carolina , and even at Google’s Mountainview HQ ). Well, we can now add to that list the Seattle-based
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Rent-a-Goat in Action! Clearing Brush the Way Nature Intended It