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Thinking of a master plan: Portland’s mayor on building prosperous cities
Portland, Ore., Mayor Sam Adams says that cities are ideally positioned to lead the way toward prosperity.
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Get your ass on that bike!
In honor of National Bike Month, Grist challenges you to ride your bike to work. And we've got a few pearls of wisdom to help get you started.
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Drivers unable to use turn signals properly
Drivers are always complaining how craaaazy bike riders are, what with their wanting to “share” the “road” and “biking” in “bike lanes.” Well, it turns out that drivers are really bad at using the roads, too. And especially at using their TURN SIGNALS. According to a new study from the Society of Automotive Engineers, 25 […]
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A low-cost way to improve public transit: Add joy
Can transit incorporate art? Yes! How about playground equipment? You bet. Even … sex? Oh yeah, baby.
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Houstonians want walkable neighborhoods
Car-centric Houston tends to be one of our go-to examples for everything that can go wrong with a city, ever. But we may not be able to use the city as a whipping boy much longer. According to a new survey, Houstonians are seeing the light on walkable and transit-accessible neighborhoods. More than half of […]
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Singapore’s giant supertrees: The ultimate vertical gardens
Singapore is in the middle of a project that looks like a Miyazaki movie come to life. The city’s 18 “supertrees” do everything that normal trees do, only better. They will stretch up to 164 feet tall, grow 200 species of flowers, ferns, and epiphytes, collect solar energy, harvest rainwater, and work as a natural […]
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Badass enclosed, untippable electric motorcycle is the ultimate green transport
It goes 200 miles on a third as much battery power as an electric car. It has airbags and an enclosed cockpit. It's gyroscopically stabilized, like a Segway. It could be the future of transportation.
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Biker uses GPS to turn city into an Etch-a-Sketch
A Baltimore man uses his bike and his phone's GPS tracking to turn the city into art.
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Bill Nye explains why the city of the future is bike-friendly
The city of the future has showers at the office for bike commuters, weatherproof bike highways, and tunnels engineered to create helpful tailwinds, according to Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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Moscow looks awesome from space
NASA’s image of the day today is a night shot of Moscow, seen framed by the Aurora Borealis and the solar panels of the International Space Station.
