Photo via Public Health Copenhagen “You won’t believe it… You’re safer on the bicycle than on the sofa!” That’s the official slogan of a Copenhagen campaign—run not by the department of transportation or bike safety advocates, but by the city’s public health office. The picture above was a poster seen across the city last spring bearing the message: “You are safer on the bike than on the couch… Pu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Weather Underground The strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest swept through Minnesota, bringing fierce winds and torrential downpours along with it. It turns out the ‘superstorm’ caused the lowest pressure ever recorded in a U.S. non-coastal storm–955 millibars. The storm was stronger than the Great Ohio Storm of 1978, the previous record-holder, and stronger even than the storm that famously sank the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in 1974. That’s according to
Continue reading …CNN Guest Mischaracterizes Focus on the Family as Pro-’Mean’ Toward ‘Gay People’
October 28, 2010 No CommentWith the recent accounts of anti-gay bullying in the news, there has been a backlash against people and organizations that promote traditional values. Call it a relentless pursuit to find someone to blame. As politicians like Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. , and organizations like Focus on the Family express their concerns over the promotion of homosexuality in the public square, they are regularly blamed for aggressive ignorant anti-gay bullying that results in horrible things, like the suicide of Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University student .
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Thousands of Argentines have waited in line to pay tribute to Nestor Kirchner, the former
Continue reading …Steve Daniels on Remarkable Innovation in Kenya’s Informal Economy (Podcast)
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In the US, do-it-yourself culture is counter culture, a playful middle finger to the silos of cookie-cutter consumerism (just look at Maker Fair ). But in Africa, nearly everyone’s a DIY-er to some degree. Steve Daniels became fascinated with the Jua Kali, workers in the informal production clusters of Kenya. From these buzzing nodes of creativity has sprung a torrent of innovation, but more than that, a new model for industrialization in the developing world. Daniels discusses his book,
Continue reading …Industrial-Scale Fish Farming Still Damaging, Despite Environmental Progress
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photo: Ivan Walsh / Creative Commons The first global assessment of the environmental impacts of industrial-scale fish farming has found, even when current best practices are implemented, environmental degradation is increased. The University of Victoria’s Dr John Volpe, who headed the research team, says, “Scale is critical.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Nexus Two does (or doesn’t) exist, is (or isn’t) being released this year
October 28, 2010 No Comment
After going most of the year with very little noise on the Nexus One’s successor — a phone Google has never committed to making, by the way — we’ve gotten a handful of conflicting rumors about this thing in the past few days. Let’s take a swipe at the buzz that’s circulating this week: British publication City A.M. says the Nexus Two is a Carphone Warehouse exclusive , will be released in time for the holidays, and probably won’t be made by Samsung. Android and Me is convinced that the Nexus Two will in fact be a Samsung product, will be announced at its November 8th press conference , will ship with Android 2.3 Gingerbread (assuming 3.0 is Honeycomb ), and will be available on multiple carriers. Meanwhile, a quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt from back in July may suggest there will be no Nexus One successor at all: “The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn’t have to do a second one.” Of course, he goes on to say that the Nexus One’s sudden sunset was a shining example of Google’s “nimbleness” — and since the quote is from nearly four months ago, there’s little reason to doubt that the company could’ve easily done a 180 since then, particularly since we’re sure they’d like to have a clean, skin-free, and possibly carrier-free device to showcase Gingerbread. At any rate, time’s running out to get a product advertised and available in time to catch holiday buyers… so this’ll all have to shake out pretty quickly. Nexus Two does (or doesn’t) exist, is (or isn’t) being released this year originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Goats for rent photo credit Goat Rental NW . Smack dab in the middle of downtown Portland, Oregon, on the corner of SE 11th Avenue and Belmont, there’s a small herd of goats that are doing what they do naturally – eating grass and weeds. The goat herd has attracted lots of attention from neighbors, however, and their grass eating, says the local Portland weekly Willamette Week , is brilliant in “any number of ways.” They are emissions-free mowers that give relief from the gas-powered tractor, and have a specialty in chomping up pernicious and invasive b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I’ve got a garden full of kale , and I’m running out of time to use it all up. Kale is quite happy to be hit with a bit of frost, and many people say it actually makes it sweeter, but even this hearty vegetable can only take so much cold. So it looks like kale will be on the menu quite a bit over the next couple of weeks. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Volcanic eruptions on Russia’s far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula tossed massive ash clouds into the air, forcing flights to divert and blanketing a town with ashes, officials said on Thursday. (Oct. 28)
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