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photo via flickr In a surprising but welcome move, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers today sent a letter to House and Senate leadership stating its opposition to Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s efforts to take away the EPA’s ability to regulate...
With China getting ready to tie the entire world together with high speed rail, it is easy to forget that America once dominated when it came to innovation in transport. Back in 1870, Alfred Ely Beach built a pneumatic subway under Broadway. (in secret...
Julian Red and Righteous Fashion (L to R). Credit: Mikael Schultz, Swedish Institute; Swedish Institute Eco Chic – Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion, an exhibit featuring Swedish fashion designers who take an environmentally-friendly and ethical...
Ray LaHood at Bike Summit, photo credit Jonathan Maus at Bike Portland This writer didn’t expect much from Ray Lahood, calling him the ” Congressman from Caterpillar ” and suspecting that he would tend to favor the car and the big...
Image credit: Friends of the Earth Back in 2008, TreeHugger founder Graham Hill posted on author Ian McEwan’s thoughts on climate change . At the time, the word was that McEwan’s next book would be all about climate change. Now that book...
Some of the People Working Hard to Make Green Transportation a Reality Elizabeth from StreetFilms went to the 10th National Bike Summit in Washington DC with her camera, and the video above is the result (nice job!). It’s great to hear from so...
Photo via MNN I was at dinner the other day, and a friend of mine had ordered the salmon. When the dish came to our table, I stared at the limp pink mound. Fish are simply too wimpy, I thought, shaking my head in disgust. And here I am, just two days...
Photo: Flickr , CC “Today we flare enough natural gas to power Germany” Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimated in 2005 that about 0.5% of all CO2 emissions from fossil fuels came from natural gas flaring. The most shocking thing about...
Photo of data center in limestone cave, via Computerworld Data centers suck up a lot of energy , so it pays to put servers in places that can keep them cool and running efficiently. While some companies are choosing to make what they have work better...
