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I Left My Bike Outside of San Francisco

San Francisco developed a plan to enhance bike riding for its residents and create a safer biking environment. In 2004, the city released a 527-page plan with maps, analysis, and a call for more bike lanes and better bike parking. With the improvements, they had hoped to increase bike commuting to 10% of the total [...]

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A Lively Pair of Flip Flops

Walking through a plot of fresh grass in your bare feet feels glorious, right? But what if you could saw a patch of grass into your flip flops? Would you do it? I don’t think I would be game for such footwear, but apparently the creators over at Krispy Kreme – yes, the guys [...]

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Is it safe?…Is it safe?

My wife and I have shared a car for the past four years. It’s a streak I’m proud of, one that depends on a number of factors and that requires a fearless attitude toward walking/biking in the rain. But as we’ve both graduated grad school and now settle into careers, it looks like the streak [...]

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Trim the Fat, Cut Out Excess

Conservation can actually help you lose weight. Who would have known? Oh right, that’s why environmentalists often refer to consumption as a bad thing. A while back, Yahoo’s featured article broke the news that people who live in suburbs tend to be fatter than those who inhabit cities. Apparently, several medical studies have shown that the [...]

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Practical Plans are Effective Plans

Barack Obama unveiled his energy plan on Monday. Overall, it promotes attainable goals. There’s no talk of hydrogen-powered vehicles (a technology that seems to be taking forever to come to fruition and whose environmental impact is suspect) or discovering double-secret reserves of oil buried right under our noses. He does mention controversial ethanol but groups [...]

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Some ABC’s of Greenology, Part 4 – Grease Lightning?

 Welcome back to our continuing series on greenology! If you would like to read part 1, part 2, or part 3 of this series first, please follow the links.  In the meantime, we will continue with our primer of greenology. G is for Grease. No, I’m not talking about the movie, although cars do play an [...]

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