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Bicycling is a wonderful transportation option. But one thing many people who haven’t been to top bicycling cities or countries get hung up on is the concern that you can’t transport much with a bike. Now, I lived in one of the top bicycling cities in the world for five months (Groningen in the Netherlands), [...]
Sustainable building or green building design isn’t something we cover a lot here on CleanTechnica, even though many of the components of sustainable building are cleantech products, so this nice summary of 5 top sustainable building concepts from around the world seemed like a perfect article to repost from sister site Green Building Elements [...]
Cleantech startup competitions, hackathons, and such are apparently growing in popularity — it seems like I’m reading and writing about at least one a week. Here’s info about another one, in Mexico, via sister site Ecopreneurist: Cleantech Challenge Mexico 2012: Funds Green Startups in Mexico (via Ecopreneurist) San Francisco has it, so does Boston, [...]
As I wrote in an article published on Sunday, determining the savings from bicycling to work is highly dependent on assumptions used (what isn’t?). Nonetheless, it’s clear to anyone who thinks about it for a few moments that bicycling is much, much, much cheaper than driving (not to mention the savings from improved health). [...]
I covered Rolling Stone‘s excellent piece on a potential fracking bubble and scam back in March, and while I know that many are sold on fracking’s benefits (even Obama, it seems), I can tell you that I wouldn’t put my money on it in the long term. Here are a few recent stories that [...]
We’ve written about the potential to turn gyms or home DIY workout facilities into electricity generators numerous times before (even an idea for human-powered river gyms), but it seems the idea is starting to get a bit more popular. Here’s a roundup of some electricity-generating facilities from sister site Green Living Ideas worth checking [...]
The relationship between bicycling facilities and bicycle transportation was the focus of my master’s thesis in city and regional planning. Previous research had pretty conclusively shown a link between bicycle facilities and bicycle transportation, but a more detailed look at specific facilities had not been conducted. My findings were that higher-quality bicycle facilities were [...]
350.org has launched a big campaign against fossil fuel subsidies. As part of that, it is presenting some pretty startling and inconvenient facts about the cost of these subsidies to the US public. This subsidy counter is especially awesome, yet scary: Adding on to that, Jamie Henn of 350.org writes: “Watching that bottom number [...]
