[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Rail station in Shanghai, China (photo via thetransportpolitic.com)
About a year ago, TreeHugger interviewed Andy Kunz, an urban designer, New Urbanist and rail advocate. Kunz laid out a pretty convincing case for high speed rail as the solution for a number of problems facing American transportation, including outdated infrastructure, peak oil (or “energy independence,” depending how […]
220 Volt Heavy Duty Receptacle. Image credit:Angiogram
This is one of those comparison posts that that could draw many angry comments: like Could Hype Sell An Inferior Hybrid? - Ford Fusion versus Toyota Camry did. Please carefully read the caveats.
Investigators from Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburg PA, have made a Volt-type […]
photo: University of South Carolina
I have to admit that I was thrilled to see this story as I am a resident of Columbia, S.C. (home to USC) and we aren’t often the “the world’s first” at much related to the environment. But it’s great to see that USC is making moves toward some greener technology […]
Image via: Getty Images
One of the many other “changes” (benefits?) to come our way, scientists now predict, is the growth in the worlds largest sand dunes, reports New Scientist this week. We’re talking sand dunes that are 500 meters or greater and we’re definitely not advocating for racing quads over sand dunes this tall (or […]
Photo credit: Vivir Mexico
Mexico City’s minister of the environment, Martha Delgado, announced Friday that in August a pilot project requiring students to take school buses instead of private vehicles to school at 10 private schools would commence. The initiative was spurred by the success of a study carried out at the Colegio Oxford private school, […]
A gene linked to a type of motor neurone disease that runs in families has been pinned down after a 10-year search.
If you are going to live with less stuff, it’s nice if it serves multiple functions. Here is an interesting looking desk from French designer Florian Jouy that turns into a bed….
Swedish no-mix toilets
Over a hundred years ago, Teddy Roosevelt noted that “civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other way than putting it into the drinking water.” We still don’t get it right, building huge networks of pipes that dump everthing together into one pipe, when both bodily waste […]
When Collin and I covered the stunning new Valcucine Invitrum kitchen at ICFF last year, the distributor said in the video that it would last forever: “this is a kitchen that your grandchildren will be using.”
It is all made of glass and aluminum, which according to their site, “the exclusive use of glass […]
Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Instead throwing out crumbs or carefully collecting them for the birds, this self-cleaning bread board delivers them directly to the bird. I mean, it has to be the greatest thing since, well, sliced bread….