The voting website for Istanbul’s new tram design. Screenshot: Istanbul Ulaşım A.Ş. Sigh. Just when I was feeling optimistic about the latest developments with Istanbul’s public transportation system, the municipality goes and announces that it’s running an online poll to let the public choose which vehicle design the city will produce for its new t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The voting website for Istanbul’s new tram design. Screenshot: Istanbul Ulaşım A.Ş. Sigh. Just when I was feeling optimistic about the latest developments with Istanbul’s public transportation system, the municipality goes and announces that it’s running an online poll to let the public choose which vehicle design the city will produce for its new t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: yourtes The nomads in Outer Mongolia created yurts out of necessity, now many people in France are living in them as part of an alternate lifestyle decision. But the French government has come up with a
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When it comes to our increasingly crowded city streets , where trucks and cars and bikes clamor and jockey for a spot, it seems there’s hardly room anymore for a little green to soak up all that CO2 . But, thanks to two artists in Indonesia, finding space for flora just got a bit easier with these literally living bike-helmets that are sure to turn a few heads — turn them into potted plants, that is…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Dr. Tim-Rasmus Kiehl, M.D I do prattle on with quotes like Carl Elefante’s “the greenest building is the one already standing” and the Steve Mouzon version “The greenest brick is the one already in the wall.” I love to quote Richard Moe: “When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link u… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Eaton Hybrid Trucks Have Logged 100 Million Miles, Saving 4 Million Gallons of Fuel
January 4, 2011 No Comment
Photo: schnaars , CC Hybridization Isn’t Just for Private Vehicles Eaton makes, among other things, hybrid drivetrains for commercial trucks and buses. The most familiar models to most people is probably the one used by UPS for local deliveries, but their hybrid vehicles are also used as city buses, school buses, package delivery trucks, beverage delivery trucks, refrigerated delivery trucks, refuse and recycling trucks, utility vehicles, etc. With more than 4,500 hybrids on the road, Eaton has just hit a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: A Green Living If you’re not a regular reader of TreeHugger or any other environmentally-focused outlet, you’d be forgiven for thinking that global climate change really wasn’t all that big of a deal anymore. Not because scientists have determined the threats to be less than they once were — to the contrary, climate scientists have more and better evidence now that human activity is causing the planet to warm. But because the media as a whole seems to have
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photo: Preston Rhea / Creative Commons An area of China the size of Rhode Island is being lost to desertification each year , with 38% of all the land on Earth in danger of following suit . According to the head of China’s anti-desertification effort… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via Newtown Graffiti , Flickr. What am I, the phone book blogger? It seems that way. After a ban on Yellow Pages in Seattle and a related industry lawsuit, the latest news on ditching phonebooks comes from Maryland. This time, it’s the other way around. The state is preventing phone companies from switching to an opt-in system for white pages. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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WKRG.com There’s no doubt that the impact of t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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