Introducing STARS, a voluntary points-based rating system inspired by LEED, which will allow transportation professionals to plan and compare their projects using a national sustainability standard. [...]
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Lazy Monday I got very excited when I heard about green things happening in my former home of NY. The new High Line Park just opened and I had the chance to beat the crowds and see it last week. Very cool, and will just get better. Today I checked out what I heard was a [...] Lately, Audi has been doing really big things with clean diesel engines. Similarly, a German auto-nerd has just set a world record for the fastest car driven by bio-gas using… an Audi sedan. This story over at autoblog.com tells a little more as to how Jürgen Hohenester, a German race car drive, tweaked his Audi to [...]
Feed me sun, foggy San Fran! What’s up with waves man? I’ve always been obsessed with the idea of lights’ wave/particle duality (hint: it’s both); And now it’s all about waves wherever I turn, from the idea of wave power to the new Google Wave email system (I watched the video for this btw, [...] The City of New York just gave the boot to cars. Times Square is now a pedestrian mall, in addition to another section further down Broadway between 33rd and 35th. Pretty amazing. Though it’s just considered a pilot program, the city is studying the effect to traffic surrounding the area and, if successful, word has [...] Wouldn't you rather take a green taxi? You think you drive a lot? The average taxi drives between 75,000 and 100,000 miles a year. That’s a (unscientific) ton of pollution and a nasty dependency on foreign oil. Remember that taxis had to add a $2 surcharge last year when gas prices went through the roof? That [...] Three students from the Dalhousie School of Architecture in Halifax came up with this funky project which has become pretty viral on the green blogs, and for good reason. I’ve read some pretty intense analyses about it’s artistic purpose and critique of modern society, but in the end it’s just a striking visual, simple and hilarious. The [...]
The designer of the Jawbone headset and a veteran of Tesla motors have put their heads together to create something akin to cataracts, as both turn the world into a completely fuzzy blur. This electric crotch rocket will have no emissions thanks to it’s Lithium Ion batteries and will throw you violently backwards as [...] Masdar City, Abu Dhabi’s amazing, solar-powered, futuristic new city is planning on installing PRT’s (Personalized Rapid Transits). These will be computer controlled little pods that will zip you exactly where you want to go.
Yes, it’s life imitating art once again. This second picture is of course from Total Recall, which ironically starred the present [...] |
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