[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
New Chief, New Management System
In the same week that New York City’s MTA, the beleaguered, budget-crunched manager of the world’s biggest mass transit network, gets its report card from the city’s rider’s advocacy group, it also got a London transit guru as its new chairman, and a new management program that could improve every line […]
LA sans smog, photo: Todd Jones via flickr.
Cities are greener places than people generally give them credit for, in terms of carbon emissions — people generally live in tighter quarters and expend less energy in transportation than their suburban and rural cousins. However, if new research into methane emissions in Los Angeles is applicable to […]
All the blogs are covering the Hydralux-4 liquid cooled LED being distributed by EternalLEDs. Ariel at Fast Company thinks it won’t be an instant hit; Wired just craps all over it, saying “We don’t really see the advantage of this over other LED bulbs. If Eternal LEDs had put a mini lava-lamp inside, though, we’d […]
Photo via Sam Beebe/ Ecotrust
Awhile back we talked about most cage-free eggs being certified as “humane.” One of the things we mentioned is that if you really want to know whether or not your eggs are coming from happy chickens, you should visit the farm. Or here’s another idea…zoom in on them via Google Earth. […]
Images via Engadget
Fridays are so much more fun when there’s a random un-TreeHugger gadget to show you all. The latest is a very un-green cell phone idea, that helps you pollute the air with cigarette smoke along with all the other emissions associated with mobile devices. Yes, light up with a built-in cigarette lighter!…
A lot of waste products have been turned into biogas, but to my knowledge this is the first time onions have been used. Gills Onions, the nation’s largest processor of fresh onions, will debut today an anaerobic digester system at its Oxnard, California location, whereby 100% of its onion waste and juice is transformed into […]
Image via Terracycle
How many billboards did you pass today? If you can even keep count, you’re lucky. Most of those are made with vinyl. And most of them get thrown away. Over 3 million a year in the US alone. That’s nearly 10,000 tons, or to give you a visual, about the weight of 2500 […]
Image credit: Bioregional Development Group
BedZED Residents’ Footprints Analyzed
Back when TreeHugger was young, there was an awful lot of talk about BedZED - or Beddington Zero Energy Development - a groundbreaking housing project designed to reduce residents’ impact through the holistic lens of ecological footprinting. It wasn’t without its problems - BedZED’s biomass regional heating system […]
Images via Mintpass
If you’re off grid but still needing to use AA-style batteries, wouldn’t it be great to be able to add more juice just by shaking them up a bit? That’s what the Mint Energy Rechargeable Battery concept would allow us to do…just use a little “shakenergy.”…
Photo via Kevin Burkett
Surviving a shark attack is traumatic. But so is having your species and every species like you edging closer to extinction. Luckily, at least 9 humans recognize this and, despite the fact that they’ve been attacked by sharks, are gathering in Washington DC to lobby Congress for tighter regulations protecting the predators […]