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The first challenge to restoring the L.A. River: Reminding Angelenos that it exists
City planners once imagined that Los Angeles residents would take pleasant walks along the freeways that line the L.A. River’s banks, but today, the waterway is largely invisible to the city that surrounds it.
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Atlanta region heads to the polls to reject a massive transportation investment
We've looked into our crystal ball, and it doesn't look good.
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I am kind of in love with these glowing fish bikes
As I always say, a woman needs a man like I need a fish-bicycle. Which is why I got married, I guess, because I need this fish-bicycle pretty bad.
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Can sprawling Los Angeles learn to let a river run through it?
It will take more than pretty streamside parks to heal the beaten-down L.A. River. A real revival will have to involve the entire watershed – a tall order in a valley dominated by blacktop and rooftops.
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Los Angeles River checks into rehab
The Los Angeles River usually gets attention only when it cameos as an apocalyptic wasteland in movies. But a closer look reveals secret hideaways that could someday give the sprawling city a stronger sense of ecological identity.
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This amazing lightweight bike is made entirely out of cardboard
The bikes cost about $10 to make and can support up to 300 pounds.
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When disaster strikes, Twitter might save us
Scientists mine social media, email, and other communication data to prepare for hurricanes, heat waves, and other natural disasters.
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Massive rain causes havoc in Beijing as infrastructure fails
Beijing's weak infrastructure lead to 37 deaths after a torrential downpour. You don't think much about your sewer system until it stops working.
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The best pictures of trucks inside trucks inside trucks
Here’s a kind of awesome way to get trucks off the road: put them inside trucks inside other trucks, like some kind of truck turducken. Turtrucken. It’s three, or four, or nine trucks for the carbon footprint of one! This picture came originally via Reddit, so there’s little context, other than that it was taken […]
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Real world: For residents of one troubled town, climate change seems a long way off
In a town where jobs, violence, and housing are daily concerns, global warming doesn’t make the short list, a local hip hop artist and urban farmer tells the Slow Ride Stories crew.
