Image: Screen capture from Streetsblog.org We Need More Orgs Like StreetsBlog! Our friends at StreetsBlog NYC are in the middle of their first fundraiser ever. The first four years of their existence were funded by a very generous single donor (thanks, Mark Gorton !), but they now need help from the larger community to keep going. They are registered as a non-profit, so anything you donate is tax-deductible. You can read their appeal
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Photo: Flickr , CC A Smaller VRRRRRRRRRRROOOOMMMM The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has approved new specs for Formula One, and starting in 2013, F1s will see a huge engines downsizing (more details on this below) and the addition of new fuel-saving technologies. This is welcome news not only because it should reduce the fuel consumption of F1s by about 35%, but because it will turn this the sport into a kind of R&D lab for small engines. This increases the chances that improvements will find their way into mass-market vehi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image Credit Brian Hughes/Toronto Star; see full image here Brendan Kennedy of the Star has some terrific tips for winter biking that go beyond borrowing a balaclava from an anarchist friend. Major riding tips include riding more slowly, anticipating stops, reducing tire pressure and turning safely: In particularly snowy or icy conditions, lateral force will not take as strongly to the r… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …India’s National Solar Mission, 20 GW of Anti-Poor & Anti-Democratic Policy Implementation?
December 13, 2010 No Comment
photo: technicolorcavalry / Creative Commons India’s National Solar Mission is certainly impressive in ambition: Over one gigawatt installed by 2013 and over 20 GW installed over about the next decade. So what’s not to like about it? If you listen the words of
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Images: NASA, public domain. Warming World NASA has just published two world maps showing temperature anomalies in the decades starting in 1970 and 2000. Looking at those maps, it’s pretty obvious that the planet is warming, especially closer to the poles. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …World’s Greenest Nation? Vatican City Has Most Solar Power Installed Per Capita
December 13, 2010 No Comment
photo: Matthew McDermott Let’s leave differences about the Roman Catholic Church’s metaphysical teachings and some of their social stances aside for the moment, and recognize that
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Photo by evilthomthai via Flickr Creative Commons Fish living in waters off California’s coasts are changing the timing of their reproductive cycles, new studies show. Eighteen of the area’s most common species are spawning 15 to 62 days earlier than what was common in the 1950s, while eight other species are spawning between 15 and 38 days later. While experts aren’t sure why the trends are occurring, they’re eyeballing changes in water temperature as a culprit. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Coverage of Factory Farming & Animal Welfare Has Decreased US Meat Demand
December 13, 2010 No Comment
photo: 王 博齊 / Creative Commons This is really pretty encouraging: A new study from Kansas State University shows how increased media coverage of animal welfare issues in recent years has led to a decreased demand for meat in the United States. Increased awareness of how livestock are routinely treated through factory … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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