Image credit: Transport for London We already know what the single most important tip for staying safe on a bike is. But activists and road safety experts are stepping up their efforts to do something about truck blind spots. From bereaved mothers campaigning for technology to keep cyclists safe through to traffic lights that alert drivers… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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"No Excuses" for Truck Blindspots: New Campaign to End Unnecessary Deaths
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Images from Daily Mail What is it about celebrities and food and shops? We’ve got Prince Charles and his farm store, Liz Hurley and her organic vegetables and Jo Wood (ex-Rolling Stone wife) and hers… It’s not like they ever work there…. Now we have S… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sting Opens a Food Store (in Italy)
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Photo via Flickr There’s some surprising news today out of Myanmar, the nation formerly known as Burma. The country, which is controlled by a brutal military regime , has nonetheless decided to created the largest tiger sanctuary in the world. With only 3,000 left in the wild, tigers are among the most endangered animals on the planet. This new reserve in Burma will span 8,500 square miles, and will protect at least 100 tigers — that is, if the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Myanmar Creates World’s Largest Tiger Sanctuary
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Wired and Gizmodo are showing an interesting iPhone application and accessory: the LiveRider. Wired describes the hardware: “It comprises a frame-mounted sensor which cable-ties onto the chainstay (the bottom tube) and senses speed and cadence (cranks per minute) via magnets attached to the wheel and crank. This beams its info via 2.4 GHz RF to … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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iPhones Replacing Specialized Equipment, Doing More With Less
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Photo via quapan Our culture is obsessed with technology, and for many people it seems the solution to our environmental conundrums is embedded in the ways we utilize the technology we have to create solutions. To a great degree, technology is what got us into this oil-dependent mess in the first place; still, it can very well be an important component of moving away from oil while maintaining the same degree of global connectivity we currently experience. In three major areas, including communication, transportation and food, we discuss ho… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Minus Oil: Where Technology Can Curb Our Consumption
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photo: John Bruckman via flickr A follow-up to a story from a couple months back on how Russian oil and gas corp Rosneft proposed to begin seismic surveys near Sakhalin Island , in the process endangering already critically endangered grey whales. Despite public outcry, plus recommendations from scientists and 12 governments that they ought to just postpone t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Russian Oil Corp Further Endangers Grey Whales With Seismic Surveys
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Sometimes the hardest part of going on a hike isn’t the hike itself — it’s picking out which trail best suits the type of hiking, biking or walking you want to do. A handy free app from North Face, powered by EveryTrail.com, has everything a person needs to figure out where they want to go and what to expect when they get there. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Head for the Hills with North Face’s Trailhead iPhone App
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Domestic compost bins come in many shapes and sizes, for indoor and outdoor use, tumbling or not, to help you turn organic waste into delicious hummus for garden and pot plants. However, if until now you haven’t come across your desired shape or size, check out the Combox . This Spanish compost bin is the first of its kind that is completel… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Combox, the First Modular, Expandable and Eco-Friendly Compost Bin (Photos)
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Image: Know Your Meme Some time ago, we took at look at the “scraper bikes” sensation — customized, ‘tricked-out’ wheels which seem to be somewhere in between a flashy low-rider and a Burning Man-esque art bike — but with an important ecological and social mission in mind. What began as a local trend in a inner-city neighbourhood of Oakland, California has now spread to far-flung locales like Germany and Japan thanks to … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Scraper Bikes: Saving Kids’ Lives and "Going Green in The ‘Hood"
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A hoop pine monoculture plantation in Australia. Credit: Dr. John Kanowski. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Australian researchers examining environmental restoration projects have found that reforesting damaged rainforests captures carbon more efficiently than softwood industrial monoculture plantations — or big
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Reforestation Captures More Carbon Than Industrial Tree Farms
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