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New Canadian Study Claims Helmet Laws Don’t Affect Cycling Ridership Numbers

From The Moederfiets or Motherbike Canada’s ten provinces have varying rules about bicycle helmets; some make them mandatory, some mandatory for those under 18 years old, and some with no legislation. It makes for an interesting study on The effects of provincial bicycle helmet legislation on helmet use and bicycle ridership in Canada . While only the abstract is available, one of the authors told the University of Manitoba News: “Contrary to popular belief, provincial helmet legislation does not cause people to c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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7 Ways Food Allergies Could Actually Be Good for You — and the Earth

A food allergy diagnosis can range from being a minor inconvenience — like having to read labels to check for food dye — to a major health issue (think extreme, lethal allergies to milk, eggs, and nuts). But let’s look at the bright side for a moment: If you’re forced to pay attention to every ingredient that goes onto your plate, you could also be making better choices for your health and the environment — from choosing foods with smaller carbon footprints to defaulting to organic produce over packaged goods. In fact, we could learn a lot from the way people with food allergies approach their plate…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Design For An Electric City For The 20th Century- in 1894

Before he reinvented marketing with the disposable blade, King Gillette wanted to reinvent the city and society. Annalee Newitz of io9 describes his plans: Gillette wanted to solve the problem of social inequality with his perfect city, which he named Metropolis. The city, which he outlines in his book The Human Drift, would be built on top of Niagara Falls. Gillette wanted to Nikola Tesla design a water-… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Motorists Versus Cyclists: A False War Based on a False Premise

Image credit: StreetsBlog From a cyclist getting shot for riding with their child in a busy street to a motorist laughing about the “gay frenchman” he killed , there’s no doubt that cyclists and car drivers do not always see eye-to-eye. Nevertheless, when I wrote about a campaign to end truck blind spots , I was (rightly) chastised by comme… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Solar Too Expensive? Critics Cite Cost Per Unit of CO2 Saved

Image credit: Clownfish No sooner do we hear about the massive growth in UK solar jobs as a result of feed-in tariffs , than others start asking questions about the viability of such policies. George Monbiot has already labeled the feed-in tariff a “rip off” , and a subsidy for the well off, and now a new report offers some numbers that may back up his view. So are micro-renewables just too expensive… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Solar Too Expensive? Critics Cite Cost Per Unit of CO2 Saved

How Could the Climate Bill Have Passed? (Video)

Photo via It’s Getting Hot in Here In the weeks since the clean energy and climate bill died unceremoniously in the Senate, there’s been much soul-searching in both green and policy circles alike. Some people blame the bill’s failure to pass on intransigent Republicans, others a lack of leadership from Obama, and some have pointed their fingers directly at environmentalists. Charles Komanoff, however, is simply relieved. He argues that the failure of the cap and trade bill is good news, b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Dumpster Pools Making a Splash in Manhattan

Image: Macro-Sea and Vamos Architects (via NYT ) Last year’s Dumpster pool parties of Brooklyn have made it to the big time: Park Avenue in New York. For the first three Saturdays of August, three of these pools — repurposed dumpster bins that have been cleaned, lined and filled with water — are making an appearance on the east side of Park Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, as part of the third Summer Streets Initiative. The N… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lobster Dieoffs Linked to Plastic Pollution, Including Bisphenol A

Image via UConn We know plastic pollution in the oceans is causing problems among marine life, including becoming a food source that is anything but nourishing. Plastic pieces are snapped up as food by birds, fish, turtles and other wildlife, only to eventually kill them — as well as work farther up the food chain as larger animals eat smaller ones that have ingested plastics. But this is far from the only impact plastics are having on ocean wildlife. Even crustaceans are feeling the pain of foreign che… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Massive Growth in UK Solar Jobs

Image credit: Solarcentury It seems like the UK solar industry is on fire right now. No sooner was the renewables feed-in tariff approved , than solar installers were inundated with inquiries from would-be customers , and we’ve even seen plans announced for the country’s first utility-scale solar plants . Now there’s further evidence … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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School Gardening Makes Children Smarter

Images from RHS Forget about playing Mozart when the baby is in the womb–start a school garden instead! A new report from the Royal Horticultural Society has found that when children work in school gardens they develop increased life skills, greater literacy and numeracy and are more responsive to the challenges of adult life. Sounds like we all need to work in one…. Carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research ,

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