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Edible Bus Stop turns London transit routes into a network of community gardens
Obviously your first thought when you hear “edible bus stop” is “Stay away! It was built by witches!” (No? Just me?) But shockingly, the Edible Bus Stop project is not about luring children to bus stops by building them out of gingerbread. Instead, it’s about providing food to the community by turning bus stops into […]
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Visualize a shorter commute — or a better job
Seeing how our cities facilitate the commute to work reveals a lot about the benefit of investing in infrastructure.
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Colorado Springs probably didn’t need to worry about demand for wind power
The city's small initial contract for wind power is quickly snatched up by consumers.
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NYC’s first day of summer: White hot, hungry for power
Temperatures on the east coast are spiking – and so is electricity usage. Take a sneak peek at the future.
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EPA to consider whether Alabama landfill violates community’s civil rights
The complaint, filed by residents of a predominantly African-American community, argues that the landfill is a discriminatory violation of the Civil Rights Act.
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These elderly fatality statistics may spoil your affection for big-box stores
Obviously, everyone loves a nice strip mall. The parking lot, the low-slung, cheap-looking buildings, the pedestrian walkways that no drivers pay attention to. And big-box stores! The lots! The long walks down busy parking lanes! The Brutalism-meets-Brady-Bunch aesthetic! What’s not to like? So it pains me, truly, to be the bearer of this bad news. […]
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2,500-mph train could get you from New York to London in an hour
Nature abhors a vacuum, but transit nerds and people eager to see a science fiction future LOVE IT. That’s because a vacuum is the secret ingredient for this (theoretical, but plausible) superfast train, which could speed under the ocean to get you from New York to London in one hour, or New York to Beijing […]
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Why the rumors about the iPhone ditching walking, public transit are wrong
We got our hands on a developer version of the new iPhone operating system. What we found may be even better than you would expect.
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California celebrities are wasting electricity moving water around
But then, so is everyone else in the state. The utilities commission broke down electricity use; we made jokes about it.
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Austin dims its lights, everyone + science wins
A city council decision to invest $15 million in efficient lighting is not only a smart move, it's part of a great tradition started in Silicon Valley.