[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
If you’re looking for the place where committed teachers, parents, administrators government officials and a whole host of other school related and not-so-school related personnel get together to compare best practices and stimulate their nerve endings when it comes to environmental issues and our schools there’s no better event than the Go Green Earth Summit, […]
Scientists pinpoint three genes considered key to the development of a form of childhood brain cancer.
Air pollution from traffic hinders the heart’s ability to conduct electrical signals, a study concludes.
Roof of Rolf Disch’s Heliotrop House.
Passive solar through windows or active solar though hot water or photovoltaics work best when perpendicular to the sun. So cue up Paul McCartney’s “I’ll follow the sun” and see seven houses and towers that are designed to do exactly that. …
Recycled Chair from Used Games Consoles
We’re all about finding new life for old goods here at TreeHugger. From jet planes becoming hostels to Worn Again recycled shoes made from parachutes, thrift-store cast offs and even prison blankets, recycling really comes into its own when you can use the story behind the source material to your […]
Kent Sepkowitz makes a very interesting point in his New York Times op-ed No Need For Speed about car design: They are all designed to go faster than the law permits.
“Most cars can travel over 100 miles an hour — an illegal speed in every state. Our continued, deliberate production of potentially law-breaking […]
Sacramento Bike Commute
It may seem counter-intuitive, but the more bicyclists there are on the road, the lower the rate of accidents. If you double the number of cyclists, the accident rate per cyclist will drop by a third.
“It’s a virtuous cycle,” says Dr Julie Hatfield, an injury expert from UNSW who address a cycling […]
Honda Insight Hybrid, Take Two
It seems like the rumors were true. Honda’s all new dedicated hybrid is going to be called ‘Insight’, and a concept version (shown above) will be introduced at the Paris Auto Show in October, with a final version going to market in the US during the Spring 2009. Because there isn’t […]
Oops, Photos of Production Volt Leaked
Finally, a look at the production version of the GM Volt plug-in hybrid. These are from a media site (explaining the guys in suits standing around - they are engineers who worked on the Volt), and according to the Detroit News, the leak was accidental.
Less Edgy, More Mainstream
As you can […]
New York isn’t Shanghai, but it also is changing at a phenomenal rate. New York Magazine notes that “In the past fifteen fat years, more than 76,000 new buildings have gone up, more than 44,000 were razed, another 83,000 were radically renovated—a rate of change that evokes those time-lapse nature films in which flowers spring […]