Design Kug Designer Sung Kug Kim (one of the hot new best in British Design ) uses the latest CNC technology to create these scary antler handlebars out of pipe and walnut…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nobody Will Get Near You When You Ride with DesignKug’s Bi-King Handlebars

One of the most interesting areas in any ICFF show is the DesignBoom Marts, an “unprecedented opportunity to meet the young avant-garde and become familiar with their work” Some are crazy and some are just plain cute, like the felt goods from Wendy at WOOW Studios. Felt is all the rage at ICFF, for good reason; it is soft, relatively cheap and very green.(Last year we called it our best of green material of the year ) I particularly liked her bike bags. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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WOOW Felt Bike Bags Carry the Small Stuff

Photo via the Bangalore Mirror Pragnesh Dudhaiya and Aalok Bhatt study engineering at Nirma University in Ahmedabad, India, though a helmet they recently invented may make them the latest green entrepreneurs . When the two students heard about a ‘green festival’ their college was hosting, they decided to whip something up for the occasion. Three days la… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Students Invent Wind and Solar Powered Bike Helmet

Photo via realSMILEY We’ve heard of Google tracking your movement in order to provide traffic flow data , and we’ve heard of algorithms that can make traffic flow more smoothly and efficiently for data centers. Now Microsoft is taking these concepts and going a step farther. The purpose is cool – predicting how people move in a city so that traffic flow can be imp… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Microsoft’s Predestination Makes Your Car Like Knight Rider (Video)

Image: cliff1066™ Depending how convinced you are by John Kerry’s arguments , the American Power Act introduced yesterday represents the best-possible compromise given the current realities in Washington. But many

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Two Recent Good-News Bills That Aren’t the Climate Bill

The blind Brazilian blind characid is related to tetras and piranha. Image credit: Dr. Cristiano Moreira, Federal University of Sao Paulo In 1962 a strange blind fish was captured in a communal water well in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Ichthyologists identified it as a new species of Characiformes, an order that includes tetras and piranhas, but outside that one lonely specimen, the fish was never seen again. Now, a team of researchers from the Federal University of Sao Paulo have rediscovered the fish—though the small population may already be doomed to extinction…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rediscovered Blind Fish May Be Last of Its Kind

Images via Kolelina How great would it be to live or work in a city where there are zero cars, zero traffic, but the same speed of commute from location to location? And all you have to do is wear a backpack harness that lets you hop on to a zipline-style system to zoom you from here to there. No more migraine-inducing honking cars, jammed up pollution-spewing vehicles, or contention between pedestrians, bikes, and trucks. That’s the vision of Bulgarian architect Martin Angelov who dreamed up Kolelinia , a network of cables strung ab… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Backpack Harness Turns Rush Hour Commute Into Speedy Zipline Adventure (Video)

Photo: VW Bring It to North-America! Once again, it looks like Europeans get the most fuel-efficient cars. VW has unveiled the diesel engine that will power its Polo Bluemotion and help it achieve a pretty impressive 71.3 MPG US, or 87 grams of CO2 per kilometer. The TDI engine has a displacement of 1.2-liter and loses a cylinder compared to its bigger TDI brothers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Volkswagen Polo Bluemotion Gets New 1.2L Three-Cylinder Diesel Engine (71 MPG U.S., 87g CO2/km)

This is a guest post by Gabriella Levine George Orwell was wrong. Although he said advanced technology would create authoritarianism, it actually leads to decentralization and democratization. That was the message of Julia Vitullo-Martin, the director of the Center for Urban Innovation of the Regional Planning Association (RPA) at the RPA’s annual conference, “Innovation and the American Metropolis,” held in New York City on Friday, April 16th. And it was an idea that animated everyone who came for the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Future of the City: A Review of the RPA’s 20th Annual Conference

Story by Darragh Worland, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com It’s been a rough year for Toyota, which has been plagued by recalls, but the Japanese car maker’s top selling Prius is still scoring points for the embattled company. Kelley Blue Book (KBB), the largest auto valuation company in the US, says the 50-mpg Toyota hybrid is the best of the best according to its 2010 Top 10 Green Cars…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Toyota Prius Named Top Green Car