Photo via: mysi anne Our world has become very much reliant on technology, and why shouldn’t it. Technology has progressed in leaps and bounds over the years creating new and improved methods of health care, faster and more powerful networking, cleaner and more organized industry. However, despite its many great advances, technology is not necessarily what is going to save us from the ill-effects of global warming……
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Global Warming: Technology vs. Choice
Photo LA Times While news of the four-wheel variety remains bleak with news that GM is on the brink of bankruptcy, news for the two wheel set is mostly good. In fact, more bicycles were bought in the first quarter of 2009 than cars and trucks. That’s change I can believe in….
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Bikes Sales Outpace Cars and Trucks!
Photo: GM The More Things Change… Speaking of GM and electric cars , here’s an ad from 1969 that shows a series hybrid powered by a stirling engine. The underlying concept isn’t actually so different from the upcoming Chevy Volt , and while at the time the technology probably wasn’t there to make this a commercial success, we can wonder what happened to this concept in the years between th…
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GM Gas-Electric Hybrid Car Ad From… 1969!
FLW’s Seth Peterson Cottage with (gasp) new windows! Blair Kamin is the Pulitzer-winning architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, and a contributing editor of Architectural Record. He talked to the Michigan Historic Preservation Network last week. [When asked] to give this talk about the tension between green architecture and historic preservation, I have to admit that I was taken aback. My first reaction was: What tension? I could hardly image two groups whose cultural profiles are more alike. Choosing between tree-huggers and building-huggers would seem to be akin to choosing between buying a Volvo or a Saab. (You are permitted to utter the names of…
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Blair Kamin: Historic preservation and green architecture: friends or foes?
Arnold Schwarzenegger matches his muscle in one of his many hummers. Credit: Where Is a Car With Green Hollywood ‘s go-to car the Toyota Prius , we sometimes forget that not every celebrity lends their status to curbing their carbon footprint like our eco-celebs in
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7 Celebrities in Gargantuan Gas-Guzzling Cars (Slideshow)
John Deere tracked 853 feller-buncher. Image credit: John Deere Corp . U.S. Department of the Interior will grant $15 million to 55 projects to ” thin overgrown forests ” [logging] and remove potential fuels for wildfires on public lands ” [so the wood can be burned elsewhere]. The “hazardous fuels reduction” projects selected will create jobs in 12 states. The DOI press release on this program reports that ” wood removed dur…
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US Government Awards Millions To Create "Forest Thinning" Jobs
Image via Greenpeace The IT industry tends to talk a lot about what technology can do for sustainability, and Greenpeace recognizes that the IT industry holds a lot of power in its hands to shape our carbon footprints. So the group has decided to ask the IT industry to start making good on some of those claims about transparency, energy efficiency, cutting carbon emissions, and more. Greenpeace has started talking with the leaders in IT and released a report grading the industry participants on their green mettle. Check out who the companies are, and how they rank. …
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Greenpeace Putting Pressure on IT Industry to Walk the Climate Saving Talk
Photo Credit: f650biker via Flickr Remember that Renewable Energy Tax legislation that passed a few months ago? It was filled with all sorts of green goodies, like alternative energy credits and money for weatherization assistance programs . Congress, doing something uncharacteristically awesome, slipped in an Easter egg that went went mostly unnoticed. Hidden deep within the flapdoodle and flummery of co…
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Bike to Work, Pocket 20 Bucks a Month
Photo via: Left Hand Sometimes finding humor in life is as easy as checking into some of the news being featured around the nation. Today’s humorous news bit comes from a story published yesterday in the Chicago Tribune titled, “What to do with doggy doo _ how ’bout a Powerloo?” The article proceeded to describe the health problems and environmental eye-sore associated with outdoor animal defecation. The solution offered, outdoor, flushable doggy toilets going for just under $1,000 a pop (not including the price of a he…
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A Little Toilet Humor: Powerloo, The Flushable, Outside Dog Toilet
“The solar train could travel from Tucson to Phoenix in 30 minutes and might someday run from Nogales to the Grand Canyon.” Image credit: excerpted from image provided by Daily Star . The solar powered mag-lev train proposal we wrote about in Magnetic Train Proposed: Detroit To Lansing Michigan …seemed too technologically elaborate and expensive to be realistic. How about just bring back the level of train service that was once the norm – and upgrade existing…
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Arizona’s Sun-Powered Train Proposal – "The Solar Bullet"