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Look Ma, no cars!

August 11, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

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bicycling, newyorkcity, streets, summerstreets, transportation

 Just check out all that open pavement, with not a car in sight. And right in the middle of Manhattan, no less. Ain’t it beautiful? New York’s experiment with car-free streets -- closing down a well-traveled route through the heart...

What do jellyfish, drilling and whale blubber have in common?

August 4, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
cleanenergy, drilling, globalwarming, jellyfish, newyorktimes, oceans, whaling

Answer: They’re black and white and read all over. Sunday’s New York Times was something of a bonanza (albeit a sobering one) for anyone interested in environmental news. In a front-page story, Elisabeth Rosenthal reports from Barcelona on the...

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