alternative transportation

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• Toyota Tundra Midnight Rider Tailgater

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  You WILL be the life of the party!Want to have a really awesome outdoor entertainment vehicle? Well, the Midnight Rider Tundra Tailgater by Brooks & Dunn, designed in partnership with Toyota, certain hits the mark. This vehicle packs a BBQ grill, beer tap, ice chest, 42-inch HDTV and Kicker sound system, perfect ...
  1 day ago

• Super-Minimal City Bike By jruiter + studio

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  It is the jruiter + studio’s latest bike design, a minimal City Bike, it was aimed at people who live and work in an inner city environment with minimal space.We re-thought everything two-wheeled, with simplicity in mind,” says Joey Ruiter of jruiter + studio, a Michigan-based design firm. “This is as ...
  5 days ago

• Driving Ohio Forward

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 433
  On November 10, Clean Fuels Ohio and the Levin College Forum will host a discussion about the future of transportation in Ohio .
  5 days ago

• Aluminum-Ice Could Power Future Space Travel

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  Scientists from Purdue University have prepared a new solid propellant with explosive results. The fuel, a combination of nanoaluminum and ice, is a new kind of environmentally friendly solid rocket fuel that could someday be used in missions to outer space. With the motive to minimize fuel consumption onboard, the ...
  5 days ago

• Energy Harvesting Rocking Chair

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  Power that literally ROCKS!Rochus Jacob designed and built the Murakami Chair. As the user rocks back and forth during the day, the chair charges a battery that powers the lamp. Jacob writes: I was looking for opportunities to generate energy through activities we naturally do. The final result is a rocking chair that ...
  6 days ago

• Carbon Zero Road Block System

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  Want to have a method that your car can generate power as it drives along the road? Well, check out the Carbon Zero road block system. This concept uses blocks on the road, and as you drive over these blocks, the pressure from your car pushes the blocks down, creating kinetic energy. N-type silicon and [...]
  6 days ago

• Boston: Paris on the Charles?

  
  mennonno sapiens - one giant leap for mankind — Authority: 131
  I found this article in todays Times about the Parisian experience of bike-sharing somehow prescient.  Mayor Menino does seem intent on bringing a bike-sharing program to Boston, although well see if he can sustain his enthusiasm post-election (assuming hes still in office). If it does become a reality, if the ...
  1 week ago

• Air Board Adventures

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!! For $14,000, you can have a personal hovercraft toy, the Air Board. It can transport you at 15 mph over concrete, asphalt, grass or shallow wet areas, but you cannot drive it over water like a real Hovercraft! Speed and braking are controlled through two levers located on the steering bar, by ...
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• Ultracapacitors Could Offer The Greenest Way Of Powering City Buses

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  A U.S.-Chinese venture is out to prove the benefits of quick-charge buses.Municipal transit agencies have tried to reduce the carbon footprint of their bus fleets using a range of options over the years, from biofuels and hydrogen to batteries and hybrid-electric diesel. Now a Chinese company and its U.S. partner say ...
  2 weeks ago

• #8 Barcelona, Spain: Great Bicycle City Photo Tour

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 603
  Naked bicyclists, folding bikes, balloon bikes, and more — enjoy this bicycle photo tour of Barcelona. The third B in a row, Barcelona is next on this list of great bicycle cities (right ahead of Basel, Switzerland and Bogota, Columbia ). As a dense city with a wonderful climate, Barcelona is naturally a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federal rescission impacts clean transportation

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 433
  While Congress passed an one-month extension of SAFETEA-LU , the 2005 transportation law, it did not remove the $8.7 billion rescission included in the old bill. The cuts have hit alternative transportation projects especially hard , and Ohio is among the states canceling funding for transportation enhancements, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gyrowheel: Revolutionary Way To Learn To Ride A Bicycle

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  GyrowheelA new device called the Gyrowheel could soon revolutionize the way children learn to ride bicycles, and they will be able to learn on their own, without training wheels, and in as little as half an hour. (Videos) The Gyrowheel has a fast spinning disk inside that can spin for up to three hours on a [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Photo Tours of 10 Great Bicycle Cities: #10 Basel, Switzerland

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 603
  If a picture is worth a thousand words, this series of photo tours is going to be worth about a hundred thousand. You have probably heard before that the cities on this list are great bicycle cities, but the following photo tours will give you a better and more entertaining visual explanation of why they are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Suburban Cuyahoga County trails

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 433
  Marc Lefkowitz looked at proposals for multipurpose trails and greenways in suburban Cuyahoga County and described the process that led to the construction of the Lake to Lake Trail in Middleburg Heights
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• The Power Of The Powerizer

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  Humans have long and hard strived to be run faster and jump higher. Now that can be achieved for a little over $300! Welcome the Powerizers:Strap Powerizers on and you will be able to jump 2m (7ft) in the air, leap 3m (10ft) for every stride and run at speeds of 20mph. Powerizers work like [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Audi Calamaro Flying Car

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  The Audi Calamaro Concept was developed by a designer Tibor for a design competition, organized by Porsche Hungary. This futuristic flying concept car looks like a cross between a speed boat and a plane.   According to the designer, the shape is inspired by “the bone of the cuttlefish”.  We can’t see any ...
  3 weeks ago

• iREV, The Family Bumper Boat With a Built-In Grill

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  There’s no rational reason why I should want an iREV. A real boat would be way faster and much more versatile. But the iREV is a floating picnic table with a grill. Now that’s cool.On top of the low-fire charcoal grill and Kumbaya-friendly seating arrangement, there’s an optional 500 watt speaker system complete ...
  3 weeks ago

• When Genius Strikes

  
  Gheorghe: The Blog — Authority: 129
  Ive been trying to get Whitney to take up exercise for years. I think I may have finally found an answer .
  4 weeks ago

• Gov. Schwarzenegger Visits AltCar Expo

  
  illuminateLA — Authority: 408
  Stephen and I went to the AltCar Expo with Greenster Jeremy Grant and Ron Durgin. Inspired by Park[ing] Day LA, the Greensters set up a park[ing] booth and invited people to sit down, rest and enjoy the Greenster videos.The Greensters showed videos of their past three months accomplishments and journeys and started ...
  5 weeks ago

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