Photos: Brian Merchant The Chevy Volt is one of the ‘Big Two’ — along with the Nissan LEAF , it’s about to become the first electric car primed for the mass market in the United States. Each has its share of devotees: The LEAF is true-blue electric, entirely eschewing gasoline — but that’s a double-edged sword for some; it can to make those less enthusiastic about EVs nervous about running out of charge. Which is… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image Credit CCA, Sorry Out of Gas Henry Blodgett at Business Insider points to an interview with Energy Analyst Charles Maxwell of Weeden & Co. , who makes Jeff R… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Takahumi Yamada When you live in small spaces, you don’t necessarily want to have a lot of furniture. Now you can get rid of the coffee table by Daisuke Motogi’s Lost in Sofa; it is designed so that you can stick things right into it. You will always have coffee money too, digging among the cushions. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …One BC Resident Proves You Can Make Your Own 50lb, Hybrid Electric Kinetic Photovoltaic Vehicle
November 8, 2010 No CommentPhoto: Terry Hope Well, depending on your technical expertise. This highly customized hybrid electric kinetic bike, called the KPV, was built by Terry Hope of British Columbia. The bike/scooter (Hope doesn’t seem sure how to categorize it) is a unique and complicated machine, but in a CNN iReport page , Hope attempts an explanation: Okay I will give a basic rundown… the generator charges the capacitor bank, with a flip of a switch mounted on the handle bars beside the throttle grip. The generated solar powe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image Credit: Data Pointed After the poster that was the subject of Mike’s popular The True Size and Importance of Africa post was published, it sparked a lot of interest in the distortion caused by the Mercator projection. Many in India and Africa consider it to be a Eurocentric, imperialist relic, since it overemphasizes land masses further from the equator. At
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Photo credit: Rossi Fox Production Canadian photographer Daniel Fox traveled extensively through Argentina to capture the beauty of nature and animals for The Wild Image Project ( which we featured in a slideshow last year ). Recently, the artist and his partner Jasmine Rossi embarked on a new venture: The Mate Expedition , a trip through the A… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Sinclair Research It looks like a cross between a bike and a bubble: it’s an eco-scooter with a highly evocative name: the Sinclair X-1 . This new little “electric vehicle” as it is being called can be “driven” for 10 miles at a cost of 10p. (16ยข) with some pedal power assistance. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Green Festival Entrance Sign Photo: Bonnie Hulkower This weekend, San Francisco held the biannual Green Festival, the nation’s largest green consumer living event. Thousands of people flocked to the Concourse Exhibition Center, spilling out onto the sidewalks, to see over 300 exhibitors and hear over 125 speakers. There have been many green festivals this Autumn, two examples are West Coast Green and Bioneers
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Photo: Mahalie / CC One bodily function may soon bring a windfall for residents of Durban, South Africa as their city council mulls over a plan to encourage waterless waste management — by paying folks for their pee. After the city installed some 90,000 dry toilets in an effort to cut back on … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …GreenFest 2010: Bill McKibben Interviews Dr. Kevin Danaher from Global Exchange
November 7, 2010 No Comment
Bill McKibben speaks with Dr. Kevin Danaher at Green Festivals 2010 in San Francisco in this TreeHugger exclusive. Dr. Danaher is a Founder of Global Exchange, TransFairUSA and the Green Festivals, two-day events bringing together hundreds of green economy companies, social justice and envi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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