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Awesome New Two-Way Bike Lane on Prospect Park (Video)

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We Need More Separated Bike Paths The video above shows the transformation of Prospect Park West in Brooklyn. The addition of a two-way separated bike lane has had a calming effect on traffic, making the area safer for pedestrians and cyclists, and the extra-safety of the new bike lane is attracting lots of new cyclists of all skill levels. It clearly shows that “if you build it they will come” when it comes to bike infrastructure. Via Streetfilms . See also:

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The Italian Mafia is Making Money with Wind Power

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Photo: The Godfather Cosa Nostra Goes Green It seems like the mob has discovered that there’s money to be made with wind power in Italy. The mafia is up to its usual tricks: fraud, extortion, bribery, money laundering, etc. Police wiretaps even caught an alleged mafioso telling his wife: “Not one turbine blade will be built in Mazara unless I agree to it.” Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Koch Industries Backs Formaldehyde Council, Fighting Regulation of Carcinogen

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The poor Koch family just can’t get a break these days. First Brian wrote Billlionaire David Koch: 25 Years of Disinformation Campaigns and Polluter Front Groups? , then Matt followed with ‘Financial Kingpin’ of Climate Change Denial Exposed: Koch Industries Outspends Exxon 3-to-1 . The New Yorker piled on with Jane Meyer’s article about the

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Irrigation May Reduce Climate Change. Not Good News.

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Image credit: GenBug (Creative Commons) With all the evidence of human-induced global warming , you’d think it would be good news that some of our activities, like releasing aerosols for example, are also helping to cool the atmosphere. Unfortunately, often the opposite is true. This is starkly illustrated by a new study showing the regional cooling effects of mass irri… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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EU Passes New Rules That Limit Animal Testing

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: sheppey cottage Each year in the EU nearly 12 million animals are experimented upon in the name of scientific research – but all that is set to change as stricter legislation on testing was passed today by the European Parliament . Among the sweeping reforms was an outright ban on the testing of our closest genetic cousins, great apes, as well as stronger restrictions on experiments involving all primates…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Dispatch from the Front Lines of a War on Science

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Photo via Wired You may have heard of Simon Singh long before his name rose to the top of the list of those championing sound science: He’d written two bestselling books, Fermat’s Enigma and the Big Bang . Despite the wide range of subject matter contained in those books, the topic that ended up casting him into controversy was much different — a seemingly benign newspaper article about some of the pitfalls of alternative medicine. He ended up defending his career from a powerful group, the British Chiropractic Association, who sued him for li… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Birds Killed by Canadian Tar Sands Projects At Least Seven Times Greater Than Official Stats Show

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photo: Ramanathan Kathiresa via flickr Another study detailing the negative environmental effects of continued tar sands development in Canada, and how independent review finds much greater impact that either the industry or government cares to acknowledge: The latest issue of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology has published a report showing that annual bird mortality in the toxic tailing ponds around tar sands project i… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama Aims $50 Billion Stimulus at Nation’s Transit

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Image via California High-Speed Rail Authority In his Labor Day speech two days ago, the president announced plans for a $50 billion stimulus package that would take aim at updating the country’s lagging transportation infrastructure. He called for Congress to approve an infusion of funds for highway, air traffic control, and, yes, high speed rail projects, that would lead to the “immediate” creation of jobs and give a boost to the economy. Obama said that the bill would be paid for by eli… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Small Networks of Marine Reserves Better Than Single Large Reserves for Preserving Fish & Coral

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photo: Johnny Bahru via flickr. Large marine reserves aren’t working to protect fish or coral–and therefore fishermen’s livelihoods in the long term–and we should collectively shift towards more small reserves with fishing allowed in between. That’s the word from the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health ‘s Peter Sale. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Political Squabbling Holds $500 Million of BP’s Pledged Research Money in Limbo

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photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr While BP just concluded that a whole slew of missteps led to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent Gulf Gusher, so it seems a whole bunch of political squabbling seems to be holding up distribution of some $500 million in research money pledged to investigate the ecological effects of the spill. OnEarth goes into more detail, but this is the gist of it:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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