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Will Ferrell wears Shape-ups

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Facebook.com – Become a Fan! Twitter.com – Follow Us! Will Ferrell was spotted walking to his car on Melrose Boulevard and the funny man was rocking his Shape-ups! Will was asked if he the shoes keep him in shape and he just smiled back… and from the looks of Will’s physique the shoes seem to be working!

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BYD Stops Production of F3e Electric Car (At Least for Now)

Photo: Michael Graham Richard A Set Back, But the Future is Still Promising BYD, the enormous Chinese battery-maker which has been branching out into automobile manufacturing, has decided to stop production of its F3e electric car for now. Apparently, the company “changed its mind after a market investigation and consultation with the dealers for everyone thought there were still problems with the supporting infrastructure and market environment at the moment and what the company needed were transitional products.” What they mean is that they’ll be sticking with their plug-in hybrids for the time be… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Roofs Are Changing Architecture: BIG’s New School In Denmark

Images credit BIG Green roofs continue to change architecture , as architects blend buildings into the landscape and use the roofs as architectural elements, often to hide the building from view. The Vilhelmsro school in Denmark “focuses on nature and sustainability” so Bjarke Ingels of BIG designed it out of sloping landscaped bands that are integrated into the hillside…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Do Electric Cars Still Suck? Fully Charged vs Cnet UK (Video)

Image credit: Fully Charged From checking out the Nemesis electric car , to exploring fast electric car charging , Robert Llewellyn has been an enthusiastic and outspoken advocate for electric cars. So when Rory Reid of cnet uk thoroughly trashed EVs, Robert invited him to have it out with him in person. This was the result…… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Honda Unveils the Fit EV Concept and a Plug-In Hybrid Platform

Photo: Honda Coming to the US Market in 2012 (If All Goes Well) Well, that didn’t take long! I was recently writing about how Honda might be about to change direction and embrace electric cars , in good part because its new CEO is more excited about them than his predecessor. But I wasn’t expecting Honda to have something concrete to show so quickly, yet today in Los Angeles, the company unveiled its Fit EV concept, which gives us an idea of what the production Fit EV should look lik… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Videos Starring Polar Bears (Video)

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Hello Electric Wants to Give BP CEO Tony Hayward an Electric Car

Image: Hello Electric Nice PR Coup! For a few years, BP (originally British Petroleum) has tried to rebrand itself as “Beyond Petroleum”. The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has made obvious that BP was far from being beyond oil (though beyond the pale, at times), but it’s never too late to start. A group called Hello Electric wants to give an electric car to Tony Hayward, who will soon step down as BP CEO, along with a letter encouraging him to become an EV ambassador. Read on for more det… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A New Competitor Enters the Electric Car Market: Introducing the Coda Sedan (Video)

Image Credit: Green Car Reports As the American market for electric cars grows, a new competitor is ready to enter the fray. It’s the 2011 Coda Sedan, the opening bid from fledgling Coda Automotive , a company dedicated entirely to building electric cars. The sedan boasts a range of 120 miles, a top speed of 80 mph (hardly half what the Nemesis electric car can do ), and a six… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What a Phthalate-Free Vibrator and an Electric Car Charger Have in Common

Photo credit fuse project . The most obvious answer is that both the WattStation electric car charger pictured above and the Form 3 waterproof rechargeable vibrator (seen below) were designed by Yves Behar, the designer who also had a hand in the innovative Puma shoe bag and Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child computer. But there’s even a little more to it than that…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nissan Leaf’s Polar Bear Ad Might Make You Want To Cry (VIDEO)

Nissan's new ad for the Leaf, its much-anticipated entrance into the electric car field, somehow combines melting ice caps, an electric car, a polar bear and a strangely moving man-and-animal embrace. The ad has already earned some raves from eco-minded bloggers. Good says the ad's “irreverence is perfectly tuned.” Ecorazzi notes that it ends in an “Awww.” BrandChannel notes that the ad was launched on Thursday's National Football League opener, and says the ad takes a tiny bit of political license: It's interesting, too, that for the ad, Nissan positioned Leaf in a driveway, untethered – not in a garage where it's actually likely to be found each morning, connected by a cord to an electrical outlet, when an owner leaves the house to get into the vehicle for the commute. added by: TimALoftis