Big wheeled bikes are very stable, due to the gyroscopic effect of the large wheel. But small wheeled bikes take up less space and are very manoeuvrable. The Lunartic is a bike design submitted for a Dyson Award that tries to combine the benefits of both. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lunartic Bike Has Stability and Manoeuvrability, With Cool Hubless Rear Wheel
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With school supply lists hitting mailboxes all over the country over the next few weeks, it’s tempting to run out and stock up on pencils, notebooks, crayons, and other academic must-haves for elementary, junior high, and high school — but taking the time to research sustainable alternatives to classic supplies can earn you an A+ in environmentalism. Check out our list of go-to gear for kids — from recycled backpacks and pencils made of newspaper to banana-paper notebooks and bag-free lunches — to see which supplies make the grade. For more options, check out our
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Great, Green Back-to-School Gear for Tots and Teens (Slideshow)
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Image: Wikipedia , public domain. Important Milestone BP has started the ‘ static kill ‘ procedure on Macondo oil well on Tuesday afternoon, a day later than originally hoped because 2 minor leaks were found on valves on the new cap. After the valves were fixed, heavy drilling mud was pumped into the well for 8 hours until the pressure reached equilibrium. Since then, engineers… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The ‘Static Kill’ of BP’s Oil Well Appears to be Working (So Far)
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Photo via Gizmodo Houses are typically equipped with smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. But what about other pollutants? The Coway’s AP-1008 is made to detect and warn you when your air is getting too gross to breathe. Typically your sinus system and lungs do that job for you, but these days you can never be quite sure what you’re breathing in. Hence, the stylish air filter that glows different colors to indicate different pollution levels. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Air Purifier Glows Colors When It Detects Pollution
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Image credit: OZ Depending on your cultural and culinary heritage, this one might be a hard sell—but apparently mini-sized teacup cows are not the only micro solution to more sustainable meat being proposed. It turns out that encouraging a diet of insects and other creepy-crawlies could also be a great way to feed the world. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Eat Insects. Save the World?
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Credit: Reverb.org Here it is, No. 9, the last rung in the Green Music Group Challenge . Maroon 5 is encouraging fans to connect with an environmentally friendly nonprofit group. Sign up for an e-mail list, support a conservation or other campaign, or volunteer. Then snap a picture of yourself and the nonprofit’s logo, and dream of strumming a cherry wood guitar…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Maroon 5 Says Support Nonprofits for Chance to Win Guitar
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Car transport ship, photo: Rennett Stowe via flickr. If we’re going to start this great transition off of oil we really need to start thinking hard about how we’re going to move ourselves and our goods around the globe . Part of that is thinking conceptually about it–how to change our habits and usage patterns for long-distance travel. The other part is h… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How Can Technology Reduce Global Shipping’s Fuel Consumption?
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Photo via Dynamic Patents The Senate notoriously gutted and left for dead its comprehensive climate and clean energy reform bill, even after watering down numerous times. Now, even the tiny remnants of that bill , those measures deemed least offensive — primarily getting tougher with offshore drilling regulations and some energy efficiency incentives — may not pass. I have to say, if the S… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can the Senate Even Pass the BP Spill Bill?
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There’s a French proverb out there that goes: “Hope is the dream of a soul awake.” With an endless ebb and flow of media, information and literature out there that overwhelmingly focuses on the negative, the catastrophic and the heartbreaking, is it no wonder that some of us suffer from a vague feeling of burnout? During such trying times, the best antidote is to look to the positive side of things, which is why we find 100 Words, Two Hundred Visionaries a treasure trove of inspiration, full of farsighted gems gathered from two hundred thinkers and changemakers living today. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Book Review: 100 Words – Two Hundred Visionaries Share Their Hope For the Future By William Murtha
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Image via BP An amusing footnote to the BP Gulf spill surfaced yesterday, when a blogger noticed that the oil company had (badly) photoshopped pictures of its supposed crisis command center in Austin, Texas. See the bizarre photos, and the proof of the photo-doctoring here . That photo above, in fact, isn’t authentic. So what does BP’s crisis command center truly look like? Boing Boing unearthed a photo of the real thing:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP’s Real Crisis Command Center Revealed (Photo)
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