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MIT students invent bike helmet vending machine
Bikeshares are a really smart idea, so participants obviously know how to use their brains — but they apparently don’t know how to protect them. Helmet use on bikeshare bikes is pretty abysmal — data from Boston’s bikeshare program show that only 30 percent of users wear a helmet. So a group of adorable MIT […]
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Critical List: The gas boom scam; Bieber’s electric car
In Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell looks at “the scam behind the gas boom.” What really makes money for a natural gas company? “Buying and flipping the land that contains the gas,” Goodell reports. A team of scientists has discovered how to use wastewater’s bacteria to create electricity. For his 18th birthday Justin Bieber received (among […]
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Walmart is no savior: More small businesses = healthier people
Big box stores are often billed as saviors for food-insecure neighborhoods, but new research suggests otherwise.
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The littlest farmers taste their first crop [VIDEO]
The Perennial Plate crew visits a school garden in Georgia where the students plant, harvest, and taste their very first radishes.
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Go cargo: Utility bikes take cities by storm
One of the most common excuses for using gas power rather than pedal power goes something like this: “But I can’t take the kids/dog/groceries along on my bike.” The cargo bicycle eliminates that excuse.
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Obama calls to end subsidies for oil and gas
At a campaign stop in Nashua, N.H., the president called on Americans to demand a vote to end $4 billion in oil subsidies in the next few weeks.
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Bingaman’s Clean Energy Standard would be nice, but has no shot in hell
Sen. Jeff Bingaman released his long-awaited proposal for a Clean Energy Standard on Thursday.
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Algae damn: Obama’s failed message on climate and energy innovation
By not mentioning climate change, Obama is letting the GOP rule the conversation on energy.
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Hot buttered sloths in pajamas
What do you do when orphaned baby sloths are afflicted with mange? Shave them, rub them with lard, and wrap them in sloth pajamas.
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Sustainable information: Beyond tofu news and high-fructose media
What happens if we apply the ideal of sustainability to the news and information we produce and consume every day?
