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Baby, you can drive my car: How car sharing teaches us to be good neighbors
Remember when technology was going to shred our social fabric? Well, here’s an example of how it might be doing just the opposite.
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Ask Umbra: Should I sell my Exxon stock?
A reader wonders if it’s unethical to hang on to Big Oil stocks, and if shareholder activism does any good. Umbra offers some centsible advice.
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In Detroit, automakers gear up to meet new fuel-efficiency standards
On display at the Detroit Auto Show is evidence of gas guzzlers adopting fuel-saving technology made famous by the Prius.
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Boeing’s efficient Dreamliner planes are especially efficient at battery fires
The 787 is designed to be a "super-efficient" airplane, but the batteries that make that efficiency possible have been causing big problems.
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Winterize your bike in under a minute with snap-on snow tires
Hardcore bikers want to keep pedaling to work even in snow and ice, but most of them also want to make it there with intact skulls.
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Oil companies turn to trains instead of Enbridge’s leaky pipes
Canadian pipeline company Enbridge is losing business as oil companies increasingly ship their product by rail instead of pipeline.
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U.S. military gets serious about microgrids … which is more exciting than it sounds
The military is working to make its bases energy self-sufficient through the deployment of "microgrids." What it learns will be useful to civilians as well.
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Nearly half of new U.S. power capacity in 2012 was renewable — mostly wind
The threatened expiration of the wind tax credit meant that the end of 2012 was huge for the wind industry.
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This snowboard is made out of plastic bottles and cashew nuts
Sounds weird, maybe, but such biocomposites could be the future of snowboarding -- and maybe the future of cars too.
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Whole Foods CEO John Mackey knows what’s best for you, and fighting climate change ain’t it
Mackey stirred up controversy by saying Obamacare is "fascist." His latest climate-denier comments got less attention.
