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Archive for September 27th, 2008

Gear Head Alert: How To Hack An Engine Into The Green Zone

Remember how Uncle Bob, the person everyone in the family looked to for automotive advice, once said ‘you can’t even tune your engine any more because of those computers they got in there, and how everything is crammed in under the hood. Got us over a barrel!” Over the barrel indeed.
Boost Mileage […]

WIRED NextFest 2008 Sneak Peek (Part 4)

WIRED NextFest 2008 in Chicago
Here is part 4 of our NextFest preview. The show is opening to the public today in Millenium Park.
We will have posts with more details about each of the green exhibits during the next week….

Coca-Cola’s Fleet of Hybrid Electric Delivery Trucks Hits Miami

Photos by Jorge R. Perez: Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, left
Coke’s Hybrid Delivery Truck Armada
Adding to the 132 hybrid trucks it already has in circulation across the nation, green (ish) going Coca Cola deployed 10 more to the Miami area last week. The new grand total of 142 evidently makes them the largest “heavy-duty hybrid-electric delivery […]

WIRED NextFest 2008 Sneak Peek (Part 5)

WIRED NextFest 2008 in Chicago
Here is the 5th and final part of our NextFest preview. The show is opening today in Millenium Park in Chicago.
We will have posts with more details about each of the green exhibits during the next week.

Scraper Bikes: Cycling in Style

Scraper Bikes Become a Sensation Thanks to YouTube
NPR brings us this interesting story about how Scraper Bikes–bicycles that “have rims so big that they scrape the inside of the wheel well”–have become a sensation thanks to a group of teenagers who made a music video about their creations and posted in on youtube. Interestingly, the […]

Public Transportation Day in Israel: Stuck in Traffic

A competition for the title of ‘fastest mode of transportation’ in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. (Photo by Omer Cohen.)
September 23 was “Public Transportation Day” in Israel, the Holy Land’s answer to European Mobility Week and World Carfree Day. In honor of the event, local green groups organized a professional conference and a 6km drag race […]

WIRED NextFest 2008 Sneak Peek (Part 4)

WIRED NextFest 2008 in Chicago
Here is part 4 of our NextFest preview. The show is opening to the public today in Millenium Park.
We will have posts with more details about each of the green exhibits during the next week….

WIRED NextFest 2008 Sneak Peek (Part 5)

WIRED NextFest 2008 in Chicago
Here is the 5th and final part of our NextFest preview. The show is opening today in Millenium Park in Chicago.
We will have posts with more details about each of the green exhibits during the next week.

WIRED NextFest 2008 Sneak Peek (Part 4)

WIRED NextFest 2008 in Chicago
Here is part 4 of our NextFest preview. The show is opening to the public today in Millenium Park.
We will have posts with more details about each of the green exhibits during the next week….

WIRED NextFest 2008 Sneak Peek (Part 5)

WIRED NextFest 2008 in Chicago
Here is the 5th and final part of our NextFest preview. The show is opening today in Millenium Park in Chicago.
We will have posts with more details about each of the green exhibits during the next week.