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Sex, Trams n Rock n Roll: Super Furry Animals Celebrate Mass Transit

Super Furry Animals Dark Days Light Years album cover image
Image credit: Super Furry Animals

Rock n roll meets integrated transport hubs
Who’d have thought that one of the best songs I’ve heard all year would be about sustainable urban transportation systems?

I’ve said it before, but I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Rob Hopkins of the Transition Towns Movement - not just for inspiring one of the most important community-led responses to environmental crisis there is - but also for giving me stuff to write about. His

DIY Chair Concept Uses Wood, Cardboard and…Zipties

zipit chair back photo
Images via viktor matic

IKEA with their single Allen wrench and image-based instructions would have nothing on a concept kit chair called “zipit” by viktor matic….

Street Legal Golf Carts On the Rise

Share the Road With Golf Carts
photo via Flickr

As a native of South Carolina, sharing the road with golf carts is nothing new. With the highest number of golf courses per capita in the United States, we’ve taken our golf carts off-course for ages. Now the rest of the country is finally catching on….

Self-help ‘makes you feel worse’

Bridget Jones is not alone in turning to self-help mantras to boost her spirits, but a study warns they may have the opposite effect.

Sonoma County Welcomes Electric Vehicles With Plans For 200 Charging Stations

Electric Vehicle Charging at San Francisco Coulomb Technology ChargePoint Station Photo
Image via: Coulomb Technologies

Sonoma County, CA is preparing to install 200 new ChargePoint electric vehicle charging stations throughout the county. The infrastructure is being installed in preparation of electric vehicles being sold like hot cakes starting over the next few years, but the plan hinges on a little thing calle…

Chinese Government Raises Fuel Prices by 10% (That’s Good!)

china gas station photo
Those prices are in Yuans per liter, I think.

Fuel Subsidies Punish Virtue
The Chinese government has recently decided to raise fuel prices by about 10%, the third increase in the past few months, following a 6-7% increase on June 1st, and a 3-5% increase in March. The stated goal is to bring the price of fuel in China closer to what the market price is. From a green point of view, this is good because subsidized fossil fuels only encourages waste, over-consumption, and the buying of vehicles that aren’t fuel efficient. It also artificially reduces the competitiveness of technologies that aren’t based on fossil fuels, slowing down their adop…

Global Warming is Shrinking the Soay Sheep of Scotland

Soay-sheep-lamb-photo1.jpg
Photo: Wikipedia, CC

The Incredible Shrinking Sheep!
Could the changing climate be shrinking animals? That seems to be the case for the Soay sheep of Scotland. “The island of Hirta, on the western coast of Scotland, is home to a special breed of sheep. Soay sheep, named after a neighbouring island, are the most primitive breed of domestic sheep and have lived on the isles of St Kilda for at least a millennium.” These sheep are already smaller on average than other breeds of sheep, but according to a recent study, they have been getting even smaller……

Living in Glass Houses: Vodafone’s Solar Powered Mobile Home

vodaphon-setup.jpg

Vodafon is sending this solar powered minihome around Spain to promote their telephone and internet services, complete with a family of four that is blogging about it at La Casa Móvil. Designers Waskman design studio, with creative space Culdesac, squeezed a lot into not much space. No doubt the glass wall makes it feel bigger, albeit without much privacy….

Orange’s Futuristic Solar Tent for Stylish Off-Grid Charging

orange solar charging tent image
Images via Orange

Taking their Chill-n-Charge tent to a whole new level, Orange has dreamed up a concept solar tent that would use flexible solar fabric and modern design to create a place to relax and charge up gear while off grid. Check out images of the concept tent and how it would work. …

FICO Is Greening Our Credit, and the Business in General

fico green decisions screenshot image

Dealing with your FICO score can sometimes make you see red, but the company is trying to throw in some green. They launched a Sustainable Enterprise Initiative in 2008, with the goal to reduce the company’s IT energy use by 50% and paper consumption by 80% by 2010. They’ve already made some serious headway on that goal. …

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