[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Faced with the stark truth that the numbers of U.S. students pursuing careers in science are dwindling rapidly, the EPA and the City College of New York have announced a joint effort to encourage and produce environmental scientists of diverse backgrounds to pursue their dreams in the field of environmental science and potentially wind up […]
Faced with the stark truth that the numbers of U.S. students pursuing careers in science are dwindling rapidly, the EPA and the City College of New York have announced a joint effort to encourage and produce environmental scientists of diverse backgrounds to pursue their dreams in the field of environmental science and potentially wind up […]
Faced with the stark truth that the numbers of U.S. students pursuing careers in science are dwindling rapidly, the EPA and the City College of New York have announced a joint effort to encourage and produce environmental scientists of diverse backgrounds to pursue their dreams in the field of environmental science and potentially wind up […]
Citing the example of Washington University in St. Louis, students at Penn State are pressing administration to enact a total ban on the sale of plastic water bottles on campus. And doing it in a somewhat humorous way like gathering to sing parodies of Christmas carols with lyrics like “December’s hotter than J. Lo,” and […]
Kim Tait, Associate Curator of Mineralogy at the Royal Ontario Museum
Usually any story about mining or minerals on TreeHugger is about this mountaintop being blown off or that river being contaminated; it is a pleasure to write a post about the wonders that come out of the earth that isn’t dire. It is also a […]
Harrison Pitt Architects, larger image here
UK Insurance company Norwich Union held a design competition to “see how architects would tackle the problem of building on flood plains in a liveable, workable and insurable way.” Now perhaps Rule One might be that you don’t build on flood plains, but if you have to build single family […]
Here is what happens when people are not yet used to bike lanes: on Grand Street in New York they installed a bike lane between the cars and the curb, safer and more secure but not everyone quite gets it yet. First the truck thought that the cars were just stuck and idling and sat […]
This 1939 design for a solar powered folding car is interesting and a bit silly, but was based on the predictions of a Professor about a future of stronger materials and metals.
What requires so much weight in automobile engines or bodies, in giant bridges, in the steel frames of buildings and a thousand other things […]
Image: Spirt Avert
A Dream on Wheels
The Anti-Ferrari. The Classless Status Symbol. Günak’s Dream. These are just a few of the rubrics earned by the first European sportscar designed from the ground up as an electric vehicle. Lorenzo Schmid, the Swiss millionare backer for Günak’s dream, tells the German daily Frankfurter Allgem…
photo: b k
With all the media outlets out there and all the articles that get published, even intrepid TreeHugger authors who diligently follow all of it so they can distill it down for you sometimes miss an interesting piece. One such piece, which Biofuels Digest was from back in October and ran in Time (and […]