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Having a bad cold or the flu can have a detrimental affect on a driver’s responses, an insurance firm has claimed.

Posted on January 30th, 2009 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

“10% of all vehicles in the transport fleet to be powered by electricity”
These days, there’s certainly no shortage of ambitious goals, especially in Europe. The hard thing is achieving them. Sadly, the problem is that from politicians’ point of view, the hard part is far away in the future while the accolades and political gains […]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Good News for San Francisco Commuters
While visiting Paris, a city with a quite successful bike-sharing program, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom announced that his city would get a bike-sharing pilot program in 2009….

Posted on January 30th, 2009 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

LEDs make happy stories; previous ones have headlines including OLED Breakthrough, Breakthrough could change the world, and Major Milestone. And now we add The Holy Grail.

Colin Humphries’ team at Cambridge University has figured out how to grow gallium nitride on silicon instead of sapphires, making a much cheaper light emitting diode. LEDs…

Posted on January 30th, 2009 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

I have always loved those great Cities of the Future from the thirties even to the present; they always present some bucolic vision that is never quite achieved. Canon set up a vision at the CES show to showcase their high def cameras; Unpluggd said “Think Playmobil meets TV studio diorama.”
it has a lot of […]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

We’ve been busy sending people to the five recent public meetings held by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on formaldehyde - all spurred by a 2008 petition by the Sierra Club and other health and environmental organizations.
Formaldehyde was the health culprit in the toxic trailers distributed to more than 140,000 families after hurricanes […]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

The B1 bomber is among the Air Force planes already certified to fly on non-petroleum-based fuels. Photo: Ed Uthman via flickr
Say what you like about actions of the US military,but sometimes they make a genuinely green decision. Like this one: The US Air Force has dropped plans to build a coal-to-liquid fuel plant in Montana. […]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Not the JAL plane, but still a 747-300…. Photo: planegeezer via flickr
Earlier in the month Continental Airlines completed a test flight using biofuels, and now a few weeks later Japan Airlines has joined a (slowly) expanding number of airlines trying to green their fuel usage. The fuel used was a mixture of jatropha oil, […]

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Image: Mathieu Delorme for the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility
When a plan to extend New York’s 42nd street-crossing no. 7 subway line to 10th avenue was recently scrapped due to a budget crisis, New Yorkers were reminded once again of how much of a schlep it can be to get crosstown. The collective sigh could […]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None