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Air Car Among Time Magazine’s Best Inventions
The Air Car won kudos and grabbed headlines as one of Time Magazine’s “Best Inventions of the Year†for 2007. Visit the Time magazine website to find out why its editors are so high on the idea of air power.
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New Energy Ideas…
“Enter the Crowd Farm, the proposal by architecture students James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk to generate electricity by capturing the energy people create in such simple motions as walking, running or jumping. They envision a future city in which the crowds streaming through subway stations, sporting venues and tourist destinations produce energy for harvest.”
New Study Proves EMF Affects Living Things, Discovers Electro-bonsai Effect
There has been much discussion at TreeHugger about the danger of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) generated by cellphones, routers, power lines and microwave ovens. Some people think it is a serious issue; WIFI is banned at Lakehead University, and in Scandinavia there are cellphone-free beaches for people with electro-hypersensitivity. Clarins even makes a spray to protect your skin from it. Other people feel that it is not a problem.
Treehugger Labs wanted to determine this once and for all, and has spent the past year studying the issue. We wanted to pick a life form that would not move around a lot so that we could ensure that there were…
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No Conversation: The Message and the Medium
Maybe it’s time to pay attention to the conversation.
There’s a witty yarn in transportation engineering concerning traffic jams. When asked to how to reduce congestion and commuting times, the sagely planner responds “stop moving things around so much”. It’s good advice, especially when it comes to email.
Because according to Postini’s last communication intelligence report, about 94 percent of all email is spam. Spam increased 147 percent in 2006 and caused a 334 percent increase in processing requirements for corporate email. Some systems are simply melting down under the pressure – too many messages for the medium to handle. And when you figure in the massive amount of hardware and energy to keep the global electronic…
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Kinda Makes You Think | How Does Pollution Affect Cyclists?
By cycling instead of driving or taking public transport, you are doing your part to keep the air clean. The problem is that you have to cycle through all the pollution created by people who aren’t making any effort.
Pollution has been linked to heart and lung disease, and people often complain of other less serious reactions such as sore-throats, coughs and stinging eyes. I have often noticed that if I cycle a few miles in London in a white t shirt, it picks up lots of black particulates.
It’s impossible to quantify the pollution level for a city in any simple way, because the level of pollution varies from area to area, and…
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Look Good, Save the Planet: The Opel Eco Speedster
The Opel Eco Speedster first wowed crowds at the Paris Auto Show in 2002 and has now popped up in the Discovery Channel’s FutureCar series (see below for the video link). The sleek concept car holds a distinguished place in the growing family of high-performance diesels that are breaking records, as well as people’s prejudices about what diesels can do on the road and the track. The Eco Speedster, with its surprisingly diminutive 1.3-liter ECOTECH CDTI, tops out at 155 mph and clocked an average fuel economy of 113 mpg over a 24-hour road test. A combination of low weight (660 kg/1,445 lbs), minimal drag, mid-engine design, and a 5-speed automatic transmission let the…
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Investing in the Future: Branson Offers $25 Million to Remove Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Sir Richard Branson is at it again. After making headlines last year for pledging to invest $3 billion in renewable energy technologies, he’s upped the ante on curbing climate change by offering a $25 million prize to whoever comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Announced in London alongside former US Vice President and climate campaigner Al Gore, the Earth Challenge Prize will be overseen by a panel of judges, including James Lovelock and NASA scientist James Hansen (whom we mentioned here), who will be looking for a method that will remove at least one billion tons of carbon dioxide per year from…
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