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• Bike loving hipsters arrested for vandalizing street

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 572
  From the NY Post : Police yesterday busted two of the hipster Brooklyn cyclists who repainted whole sections of Williamsburg bike lanes the city had just removed at the request of the neighborhoods Hasidic community. Quinn Hechtropf, 26 and Katherine Piccochi, 24 -- who surrendered hours after posting a video of ...
  6 hours ago

• Hipsters, Hasidic Jews Battle Over Williamsburg Bike Lanes

  
  Wend Blog — Authority: 133
  Click here to view the embedded video. I used to believe that nobody would be more excited for the Williamsburg hipster trend to pass than those of us who live in Portland, Oregon, where the style has somehow managed to garner leagues of dedicated, skinny-jeans-clad adherents. It turns out that I was wrong. ...
  19 hours ago

• #1 Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Great Bicycle City Photo Tour

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 529
  Topping yet another bicycle list, Amsterdam is #1 here because of the great bicycle photos to follow along with the fact that 40% of traffic is bicycle traffic in Amsterdam and the city is full of bicycle facilities, including a 10,000-bicycle parking garage at its train station. Amsterdam may not have as high a ...
  1 day ago

• Cyclists Redraw the Lines in Brooklyn

  
  City Room — Authority: 787
  When the city recently removed a bike lane on Bedford Avenue, cyclists took action.
  1 day ago

• Hasidic and Secular Cyclists Collaborate on Bedford Ave Re-Striping

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 690
  After reports that two people were arrested re-striping bike lanes on Bedford Avenue, comes news that no arrests were in fact made. Only summonses were issued to the group, which included “both secular Williamsburg residents and members of the Hasidic community,” according to local bike shop owner and advocate ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
  2 days ago

• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
  2 days ago

• Street Fighters: Bedford Avenue Arrests!: Tipsters tell Gothamist—and an Internet paper...

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 701
  Tipsters tell Gothamist—and an Internet paper trail is surfacing that backs it up—that cops arrested two suspects who attempted to repaint the Bedford Avenue bike lane in South Williamsburg . The 14-block stretch was controversially removed by the DOT last week in what some have alleged is a Mayor Bloomberg ...
  2 days ago

• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
  3 days ago

• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
  5 days ago

• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
  5 days ago

• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
  5 days ago

• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
  5 days ago

• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
  6 days ago

• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
  1 week ago

• Street Fighters: Bedford Bike Lane Brawl: The Bedford Avenue bike lane, far...

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 701
  The Bedford Avenue bike lane , far less controversial than the Kent Avenue lane but equally as prone to sexy hipster cyclists and the Hassidic residents who tsk-tsk them, is getting dissected . Gothamist reports that the DOT is removing a 14-block section of the route in South Williamsburg, between Flushing and ...
  1 week ago

• Church Irks Blogger by Blocking Bike Lane on Sundays

  
  Brooklyn Heights Blog — Authority: 571
  Brooklyn Heights based blog Ink Lake is irked about parishioners of the First Presbyterian Church blocking the Henry Street bike lane every Sunday.  He claims that church brass told him that they have an “understanding” with the 84th Precinct: Ink Lake : Every Sunday, the members of the First Presbyterian ...
  1 week ago

• Graffiti stencils and tree poop on Pulaski Bridge

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 572
  From the Restless : The NYC DOT continues to do its best to run pedestrians off the Pulaski Bridges only sidewalk. It was bad enough when the city turned the sidewalk into an official bike lane, but now -- in addition to more preschool illustrations and signage that promotes sharing, like below left -- theres a ...
  1 week ago

• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
  1 week ago

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