The BBC gets the ball rolling in this article about four big companies’ sub-stellar performance in 2010, and it should come as no surprise that BP figures in among that unfortunate set. But, dear readers, this list is focused on the UK and Asia—can you think of more from this side of the globe? We bet you can.
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Image Credit: Lloyd Alter, from New York City: A Cyclists’ Paradise? The New York Times hosts an interesting five-way debate on the Bike Lanes of New York , the upcoming Scorsese sequel where cyclists with heavy chains duke it out with drivers with tire irons. It is about New York, but the issues really are universal. Sam Staley calls bike lanes A Subsidy for the Few :
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The Poco Pro from Iain Sinclair, manufacturers of fine tiny things, is said to be “the world’s thinnest” 1080p HD pocket camcorder. Poco’s specs tout dimensions of 54 x 85.6 x 5mm, much smaller than JVC’s Picsio , Samsung’s HMX-E10 , and even Toshiba’s Camileo , but we are definitely wary of image quality on a sensor as small as this one. We’re not entirely sure we get the purpose of its optional WiFi capabilities, either — the site claims they’re for “wireless data transmission,” but we don’t know if that’s to a PC or some sort of service. If you’re dying to find out, you can reserve a Poco of your own for
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Photo via .reid. ; energy logo via FTC Television shopping will be a little easier starting next year. According to a new amendment to the Federal Trade Commission’s Appliance Labeling Rule, any TVs manufactured after May 10, 2011 will have to have an EnergyGuide label on display so consumers know what to expect from different models when it comes to their energy bill. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: 1080 Films From Wangaari Maathai’s Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan , we’ve seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a new dramatized documentary brings us the story of Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate African farmer whose pioneering techniques have, according to one expert, don… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Pete Birkinshaw , used under Creative Commons license. Cities everywhere may be lifting bans on urban beekeeping , but what with the mysterious red bees of Brooklyn , not to mention bee murder in San Francisco , you’d be forgiven … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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North Korea was at the ready with disquieting talk about a “sacred war of justice” on Thursday after South Korea executed elaborate military exercises to demonstrate its prowess near the feuding nations’ shared border.
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Image via Technabob Solar powered e-readers. It was just a matter of time, right? LG put out a solar powered e-reader prototype over a year ago, though the solar cell was embedded in a case, rather than the device itself. When looking at Toshiba’s latest e-reader, we’re starting to think that LG might have been on the smarter track. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A tree that survived the attacks on the World Trade Center has been nursed back to health and replanted at the September 11th Memorial Plaza. (Dec. 23)
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Five years ago I wrote about my new iPod Nano , the 1 ounce, 8 dram wonder that I called the green product of the year. I wrote that it “demonstrates that brilliant design can let us all live as well or better than we do now in less space, using fewer resources and with a smaller footprint. The Nano is an inspiration.” The consensus in the comments was “you can’t be serious.” “The truth is that the iPod nano is not “green” at all. Rather, it is admired and loved by the sorts of people who like the idea of “green” products and they don’t have the cajones to admit to liking so… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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