WANTED: U.S. High School Students with Great Eco-Friendly Ideas!
November 19, 2008
If you’re a high school student with an idea to make your community a more sustainable place to live then there’s a new contest that just may be a great way to get the seed money you need to get your project off the ground. Put together by The Weather Channel and the National Environmental Education Foundation as a part of Classroom Earth, they’re looking for smart, innovative, and workable solutions to pressing environmental issues.
And get this; they’ll even pay you a cash stipend for being a local environmental intern to go along with the seed money you’ll receive to help make it happen!
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Seven Cheap and Cheerful Commuter Bikes
November 19, 2008
More and more people are commuting on their bikes. But what is the best bike for commuting? Our bike expert Warren says a good commuter bike has three main attributes:
1. they come equipped with a heap of accessories, such as fenders (mud guards), lights, cargo rack and strap, safety locks, kickstands, bells, and chain/wheel splash guards;
2. the cyclist sits tall, rather than crouched forward in a racing position;
3. they are simple, single speed models, or multi-speed enclosed, low maintenance, rear hubs.
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California Colleges Pay Students to Bike
November 19, 2008
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Universities in southern California are implementing several green commuting programs and incentives to encourage carpooling and biking to campus, reports the San Diego Union Tribune. While southern California is known for loving its autos, its also known for year round near-perfect weather. If there is any place in the US to encourage biking and hiking, this is it, but unfortunately public transit is not “mass” transit, yet. If there was just a way to flip the trend away from single-person auto use, it would change the entire culture and environment of southern Cali…
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Bikes From 2008 DNC Donated to Colorado U Boulder
November 19, 2008
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The University of Colorado - Boulder just received 50 more Schwinn bikes to add to their fleet of Adopt-A-Bikes, now making it 150 strong. The bikes were used at the DNC and RNC conventions this year as part of a Bikes Belong projects from Humana Insurance. Bikes were free to convention-goers and are now free to students to improve sustainable transportation on campus. …
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Tom Friedman Can’t Make Up His Mind
November 19, 2008
Tom Friedman is talking out of both sides of his mouth. On the one hand, he says that America should have been like Denmark and loaded taxes on to gas to discourage cars, subsidize transit and build a greener infrastructure on the backs of those who drive their cars with gas at per gallon.
On the other hand, he is against any bailout of Detroit. He shouts in the Times:
“We have to subsidize Detroit so that it will innovate? What busi…
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Virtuous Cycle Video Highlights Washington, D.C.’s Cycling Initiatives
November 19, 2008
With all the excitement about change coming to Washington with the election of Barack Obama, it can be easy to forget that the Capitol is slowly becoming a more bicy…
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London Mayor Pledges Funds to Fight Heathrow Runway
November 19, 2008
Image credit: Wandsworth Conservative PartyBoris Johnson Promises Support to a Legal Challenge
The plan to build a third runway at Heathrow has certainly brought dramatic headlines. From protesters breaching airport security to the UK Conservatives, usually known as the party of big business, announcing they’d scrap the runway and build trains instead. Now we hear via The Guardian that Boris Johnson, the con…Read the entire TreeHugger post at http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/london-mayor-heathrow.php
