How To Set Up Your Bike
You need to know how to set up your bike in order to get the most out of it and enjoy riding. Here are several tips professionals use.
Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose Old Technology
Don’t throw old technology devices in the trash. Instead, recycle, repurpose, resell or donate them.
Imagining Paris As A Green City
Architect Vincent Callebaut has revealed his designs for a sustainable Paris of 2050. His ideas include vertical gardens and net zero buildings.
Bike Sense System Makes Bicycle Commuting Safer
The Bike Sense system from Jaguar uses a combination of audio, visual and sensory cues to warn a driver when a bicycle is nearby.
LittleBits Smart Home In A Box
The LittleBits Smart Home starter kit contains all the components you need to control hour lights, heat, air conditioning and garage door electronically.
Big Changes Happening In Urban Transportation
Big changes are happening in urban transportation. Today’s city dwellers are taking trains and buses or walking and biking to work more than ever.
Say Hello To Acacia TV
Acacia TV brings you the world of personal fitness to your computer, smart phone, tablet or Roku over the internet. Learn yoga and other fitness techniques from the privacy of your own home.
World’s Tallest Buildings Will Purify The Environment
The world’s tallest buildings in Wuhan, China will also help clean the environment. They will generate solar, wind and hydrogen power and vertical gardens.
London Proposes Cycling Superhighway
London is proposing to build a cycling superhighway along the banks of the Thames River to promote bicycle commuting into and out of the city.
Top 25 US Cities For Bicycle Commuting
Bloomberg News has assembled data from the US Census about the number of people who bike to work and where they are located. The top 25 US cities for bicycle commuting are shown in the graphic above. The top 5 on the list are: Davis – California Boulder – Colorado Palo Alto – California Eugene – Oregon Cambridge – Massachusetts Clearly, the West Coast, with its mild winters and lack of snow, is far ahead of the rest of the…
Wind Tree Project Turns Street Art into Electric Power
A new French start-up, NewWind, is making wind power beautiful! Their new Wind Tree offers almost a hundred mini-windmills on an apparatus designed to look like a tree. Due to the light construction of the “leaves,” the Wind Tree generates power at wind speeds as low as 4.4 miles per hour! This translates into sustained operation times (an average of 320 days a year) that are almost double those of standard windmills that need higher wind speeds in order to…
Jersey City Joins New York City Bike Share Program
Jersey City mayor Steve Fulop has announced that Brooklyn based Alta Bicycle Share has been awarded a contract to operate a bike share program in his city. Alta operates New York City’s 6,000 bicycle Citi Bike system and was the sole bidder for the Jersey City program. Bike share members in Jersey City will be eligible to use the New York City bike sharing program as well. That means a resident of Jersey City can pick up a bike and…
The Happy Planet Index
Nic Marks, the creator of the Happy Planet Index, says his HPI shows the extent to which 151 countries across the globe produce long, happy and sustainable lives for the people that live in them. The overall index scores rank countries based on their efficiency, how many long and happy lives each produces per unit of environmental output. Each of the three component measures – life expectancy, experienced well-being and ecological footprint – is given a traffic-light score — green for…
House Fire Repairs Cut Utility Bills in Half
When an electrical fire struck their home in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Keith and Jan Giezentanner never expected the repairs they made afterwards would save them $1000 a year on their heating and electric bills. But with the help of Garfield Clean Energy, they were able to learn about modern, energy efficient windows and doors and state of the art heating and cooling systems. Garfield Clean Energy even showed them how to qualify for (and get!) rebates totaling almost $1500 on the…