Before How Big Things Get Done became the best-selling business book of 2023, before it topped best of 2023 lists and before Bent Flyvbjerg’s interview schedule became jammed with every media outlet in the world, I had the opportunity to sit down with him for 90 minutes in early 2023 … [continued]
Subway restaurants, long know for their healthy, customizable sandwiches, is launching a new vegetarian meatball sandwich using a custom blend of “meatballs” developed in partnership with Beyond Meat. The new sandwich (yay!) will be available at 685 stores across the US and Canada for a limited time only (boo!).
Intuitively, people concerned about the environment have reasoned that riding a bike or taking public transit offer more ecological benefits than driving a car, especially when they’re traveling alone. Now the University of California and the New York-based international nonprofit Institute for Transportation and Development Policy have provided some heady … [continued]
Tokyo Electric Power Company started building something new and very cold at the ruined Fukushima nuclear power plant complex on Monday. It’s basically a big underground cooler meant to freeze the soil into a rectangular wall around TEPCO’s four nonfunctioning but still highly radioactive reactors. The frozen ground of the … [continued]
Americans took 10.7 billion trips on public transit in 2013, a record high with increases in all transit modes, and the most in one year since 1956.
The website that brought renters, homebuyers, and realtors a powerful index of walkability has done it again, this time for public transit (source: walkscore.com). At the end of January, Matt Lerner, CTO of Walk Score, announced a new ranking of the average resident’s access to public transit in a city. … [continued]
Two designers have created an innovative product meant to capture displaced wind from passing trains or subways and convert that wind power to electricity. Called the T-box, the device was designed by Qian Jiang and Alessandro Leonetti Luparini, winning a silver medal at the 2010 Lite-on awards exhibited in Taiwan.
I decided to leave last week’s roundup of cleantech (or related) news that we didn’t already cover on Cleantechnica to today (for various reasons). So, now, here’s the roundup. China’s High-Speed Trains [VIDEOS] Why fly when you can travel the 1000km between Guangzhou (Canton) near Hong Kong to Wuhan – … [continued]
I wrote on Cleantechnica last week about a pilot project where the kinetic energy created from subway trains in Philadelphia braking will be used to power accelerating trains, stored for future use by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), or sold back to the grid. While that is one of … [continued]
