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Fired for Commuting to Work on a Segway? No Way!

Image: pdsphil, Flickr Could you get fired for riding your Segway to work? What if it needs a charge to get you back home again so you plug it in to your employer’s socket? Of course, you cannot answer such a question without a little bit of context. Maybe the guy parked his Segway in the boss’ office. Maybe it was just the last in a long line of provocations. But in this case, the context allows no such conclusion. The employee in question is a 41-year old computer technician, with 19 years of blemish-free performance. He rented a Segway t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Replacing Steel with Bamboo, Dutch Designer Gives the Windmill a Makeover

All Images Courtesy of Gijsbert Koren We’ve seen people do a lot with windmills- from making them at home to wearing them . Now Dutch designer Gijsbert Koren has taken a step to make this age-old green technology even greener: replacing the windmill’s steel wings with ones

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With Light Rail Stalled, A Push for BRT in Tel Aviv

A layer of smog hovers over the Tel Aviv skyline (photo by the author). After a decade of fits and starts, the Tel Aviv light rail project finally collapsed last week. Following months of last-ditch negotiations , government officials announced that they were cancelling agreements with the consortium that was supposed to build and operate the first line of the system, leaving the fate of what was supposed to be the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken in Israel unclear… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lucky Koala Hit By Car Walks Away Without a Scratch

Photo via 9 News Not only is this koala bear one of the cutest animals on the planet, it just may be among the luckiest too. Defying the odds normally stacked against wildlife in an encounter with a fast moving vehicle , this koala bear survived being hit by a car travelling upwards of 50 mph — a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fight Obesity With 10 Miles of Cycle Tracks Per State

Photo Tobyotter via flickr. Harvard’s Anne Lusk is a Department of Nutrition researcher extremely interested in the ways bicycles can help our overweight society. Her most recent publication documents research she and colleagues did using data from the famous Nurses Health Study II and compared biking and fast walking and their surprising role in keeping women slimmer..for just a few minutes of exercise each day. “Adult obesity rates increased in 28 s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Last Thing We Need is More Cyclists

These are cyclists Joe at BikingToronto suggests that we have more than enough cyclists, but need more people who ride bikes. It is an idea he picked up from Josh in Seattle, who writes that biking should be easy and comfortable: The more people who ride, the safer and more acceptable bicycling becomes. In order for that to happen, bicycling (or bicycling combined with transit) needs to be the easiest mode for short trips. Those Dutch commuters aren’t riding … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pin It for the Planet: Canadian Campaign To Get People Out of Cars is Too Little, Too Late

The WWF in Canada is doing a campaign this week to encourage people to drive less. Not an unreasonable thing; after all, “That selfish and thoughtless machine is hurting the environment and not doing you any favours either. We’re not saying to stop driving completely! Just a little bit less every day.” Then it gets strange. They want you to pin your car key to your shirt . And don’t forget to pin your car key to your shirt. Yes, we understand it’s a little weird, but it shows that you’ve got both the commitment to the planet and the confidence t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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