Credit: Richard Fisher . Fourbillion.com wants folks to jump on the high-speed train, and pump up Amtrak, too. The four billion is a mantra being used by Transportation for America to push Congress to approve $4 billion more for bullet trains in 2011, and another $2.6 billion for Amtrak. Apparently, sixpointsixbillion.com was already taken…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Hey Congress, How About $4 Billion for High-Speed Rail?

Josh Tickell’s documentary “Fuel” available on DVD June 22. Since Earth Day, we’ve been watching gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, with daily dispatches relaying the horrors. So if the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster isn’t enough to motivate you off oil, maybe discovering more about the alternatives will. Just in time, the Sundance Festival winning film, Fue l , is coming to DVD on June 22. Director Josh Tickell now offers DIY details on making al… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ready To Wean Off Oil Yet? DIY Fuel for $1 Per Gallon

Screen grab from Running on Empty video by Ross Chin. You can watch the video below. The best kind of art makes us see the world differently. Ross Ching created a video of something almost impossible to conceive: Los Angeles without cars. He used time-lapse techniques to capture the movements of clouds, people, traffic lights… But no cars. They were removed in Photoshop by layering enough still images that all parts of the image covered by cars could be replaced by parts from other pics where a car wasn’t in that spot. The video is set to music by Radiohead,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Los Angeles, Without the Cars (Video)

Image via Vintage Collection and Technology Review Generating power via the motion of our bodies has captivated researchers for some time now. Scientists are working on developing everything from fabrics that can be sewn into energy-ha… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Powering Medical Devices with Your Organs

Photo: Flickr , CC Wanna Own a Piece of Zipcar? Zipcar, the biggest car-sharing player in the U.S., has filed the paperwork yesterday for a $75 million initial public offering (IPO). It was only two years ago that Zipcar bought its smaller rival Flexcar, and since then it has been doing very well by some metrics, though it isn’t yet profitable. What will going public mean for the company?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Zipcar to Go Public With $75 Million IPO

Bugatti, maker of the world’s fastest and most expensive production vehicle, is experimenting with an electric powertrain that delivers 597 kW of power. That’s roughly 800 horsepower! Auto Express reports that engineers from the Volkswagen-owned comp… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bugatti Developing 800 HP All-Electric Supercar

Image: Flickr, Deepwater Horizon Response A lot of the questions surrounding the response to the gulf oil spill address the chemicals being sprayed onto the gulf and pumped out underwater to disperse the spilled oil. These dispersants are intended to break the oil up into smaller bits, which can sink into the water and get eaten up by microbes there. Along with questions about whether “out of sight, out of mind” is really better, there are serious concerns raised about depositing huge quantities of dispersant chemicals … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Which is Worse? Washing Laundry or Spraying Corexit 9500 Dispersant on Oil Spills?

Volunteers produced a lot of boom at Felix’ Fish Camp, Mobile Alabama, to absorb oil. Photos courtesy of Matters of Trust Since the Top Kill method has failed, cleaning up the continuously leaking oil in the Gulf of Mexico is clearly a nonstop effort until the gusher is somehow capped. Marine toxicologist and author Riki Ott left her home in Alaska to bring her expertise to the Gulf as well as her experience with the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill 21 years ago, especially in stopping the use of

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Hair Raising Campaign to Clean Up Gulf Oil Gusher

Eating like this every day wouldn’t be very good for the environment — and it wouldn’t be much of a treat either. Photo by Jennifer Hattam. Before I moved to Istanbul, I always thought of eating seasonally as a great idea in theory, but kind of a chore in practice. How were you supposed to remember if it was OK to eat asparagus in October or oranges in April? What if you really, really wanted to cook

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Relinquishment Can Be Fun! Redefining the Pursuit of Happiness to Create a Greener World

Members of a Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Team removes oil from a beach in Port Fourchon, La.–part of ongoing response efforts to minimize shoreline impacts from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill, May 23, 2010. Photo: US Coast Guard via flickr. With fingers and toes crossed, for the moment at least, it appears that BP’s ‘top kill’ is working and the month-long gusher of oil may be coming to an end . So, how do get to a place as a nation where we don… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Would You Drive 5.4 Miles Less A Day to End Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?