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Desktop Earth Turns Your Computer Into A Gorgeous Globe

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Desktop Earth A very cool new download puts the whole world right on your desktop and in real time, shows where the sun is rising and setting. Using NASA’s Blue Marble Next and Earth’s City Lights, the download follows the earth’s rotation and can be customized to even follow the way the planet looks as seasons change. Follow the moon, electric lights, or shadows, and track cloud cover, watching the world spin as you work. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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TED Talk: Follow the Mercury Trail From Sea Floor to Dinner Table

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via TED Mission Blue We know the ocean is in a bad way — polluted, acidifying, losing its most vital fish stocks and marine life…the list goes on. And we know these facts change how we’re able to enjoy seafood and swim in its waters. But exactly how intricately linked is our health to that of the ocean? In an incredible TED talk from the Mission Blue Voyage, marine biologist Stephen Palumbi discusses how the toxins and pollutants at the bottom of the food chain end up on our dinner plates. Learn what you need to know about safe seaf… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cargo Bikes For Business: Do They Make Sense Today?

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The cable guys in the Netherlands used to arrive on these huge tandem cargo bikes. They are shown on Transportfiets , an entire website devoted to cargo bikes, found by Kris at No Tech Magazine. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Paris Plans Hydropower Turbines Under Four Seine Bridges

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Jean-François Gornet via flickr At the opposite end of the population scale from the remote Alaskan village now powered entirely by a hydrokinetic river turbine , Paris wants in on the hydropower without dams act. As The Guardian reports, the City of Light wants a small number of those lights to be power by the Seine a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Blue Jeans Hold Secret To Making Better Solar Cells

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via lifecreations Researchers at Cornell University have found a seemingly simple solution to creating more efficient solar cells. It turns out that particular molecules found in blue jeans and some ink dyes can be used in a process for assembling a structure called “covalent organic framework” or COF, which can help create cheaper, flexible solar cells. While organic materials haven’t proven very easy to use so far for creating solar cells, the researchers are finding that these molecules found in every-day materials might be just w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Are Blue Bikelanes Better than Black?

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Spacing A recent study in the UK, reported in the Guardian, showed that drivers give less room to cyclists when there is a bike lane than when there isn’t. Graduate student Ciaran Meyers attached a special camera to his bike and found that motorists gave him an extra 18.1 cm (7.12 inches) when there was no marked cycle lane than they did when there was a lane. Transport engineer John Parkin explains w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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More Bikes At Work At G20 in Toronto

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by Mike Stich in BlogTO Flickrpool The use of bikes for crowd control and intimidation at the Toronto G20 is completely fascinating. Waves of them, parades of them, bikes everywhere. I wouldn’t think they are very useful; unlike a big, intimidating police horse, the officer has to hold the bike up, occupying his or her hands; it isn’t the most efficient thing to bonk someone over the head with…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Picture Is Worth…Toronto Preparing For A Riot At G20

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

I find this picture in BlogTO by Ronnie Yip to be extraordinary; The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty , a well-known group of rabble-rousers is preparing to march, and the police are out in force. But unlike the Battle of Seattle , the police are out to meet them, not in head-to-t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Biking, Walking Gets More Bucks, Keeps Going Up

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by rkimpeljr via flickr. It may seem like an, “Oh, duh,” with the government the last to confirm the news, but a 15-year report released by the U.S. Department of Transporation and the Federal Highway Administration shows a 25% increase in trips by bike and walking since 2001. The National Bicycling and Walking Study: 15-Year Status Report has been following the action since 1994, and the news is (mostly) good – in the U.S. we’ve reversed a trend of decreasing trips by biking and walking. And the Obama Administration spent $1.2 billion on bike and walk programs in 2009… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Last Thing We Need is More Cyclists

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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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