Tag: Boats - Page 2
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Despite a Helicopter Pad, Greenpeace's New $23 Million Rainbow Warrior Ship is Greener Than Predecessors
A brand new green boat for Greenpeace was launched this week.
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Kenya's Plastiki? Boat Made From Plastic Bottles & Old Flip Flops
It's not an 8,000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, but it's still pretty cool.
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Scotland to Build the World's First Hybrid Ferries for 2013
Scotland is building ferries that will run on battery power and diesel in an effort to create jobs and develop green technology.
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Sun- and Wind-Powered Lifeboat Becomes a Recording Studio
20 years after his last album, Thomas Dolby releases a new album recorded in his solar and wind powered lifeboat studio
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Sail Powered Shipping Makes a Tentative Come Back
Sail-powered shipping may seem quaint, but in a world of ever more expensive oil it may just be making a comeback.
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The Boat Project is Olympic Art
Every Olympic games have to have a cultural component and London is going at it full speed. A massive red sculpture by Anish Kapoor will tower over the site and posters by 12 modern British artists will be created around the
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Leveling the Playing Field for a Cleaner Mediterranean
Onlookers gazing out over the Bosphorus last week might have been shocked to see a tanker ship and a passenger ferry collide on the busy strait, sending rescue personnel scrambling to
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The Week in Pictures: Camping Trailer is also a Boat, Cats Nap in TVs, and More (Slideshow)
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just take your car from road to lake? Well now you can, and while camping to boot: This wild design morphs a trailer from a tent into a boat.
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Artist Circumnavigates Long Island In Handmade Rowboat
Since 2005, Brooklyn based artist Marie Lorenz has explored NYC's waterways in her handcrafted rowboat made out of plywood. What initially started as a project called the Tide and Current Taxi has evolved and expanded.
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Paddling Poets Deliver Poetry Readings by Canoe
It's so Canadian. Where else would you find a group of poets setting out by canoe to give poetry readings? Only in Ontario you say...
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Old Boats Refurbished As Boat Hotel & Floating Art Installation In NYC (Photos)
From trains, planes to treehouses, hotels can be found in the strangest of places. Now New York City has a temporary "boatel" or boat hotel to call its own, only an hour away and docked on Marina 59 in Far Rockaway, NY.
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Anti-Nuclear Protest Uses Bikes, Boats and a Mock Evacuation of NYC (Photos)
At 7:45 yesterday morning, a group of cyclists rode from Manhattan's Lower East Side to Grand Central Terminal. They were activists, wearing white jumpsuits painted with anti-nuclear slogans and pinwheels
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Basketball on an Aircraft Carrier: Sports in Strange Places
Basketballs aweigh! There seems to be a trend for sports in strange places. Call it marketing, call it wretched excess, call it college football on the aircraft carrier used to bury Osama bin Laden at sea.
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Pollution in Paradise: Turkey's Ölüdeniz at Risk
With its crescent of white sand framing a blue lagoon, Ölüdeniz has long been considered one of the most paradisiacal spots on Turkey's increasingly built-up coastline. But growing concerns about pollution in the area have come to a head recently.
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Jumping Gulf Sturgeon Injuring Florida Boaters (Video)
This is happening in Florida, and involves flying sturgeon, not Asian carp. As highlighted by the trustworthy news source fishingcrap.blogspot.com: The recent injury of two boaters by jumping gulf sturgeon brings the toll to 11 in the
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Artist Creates a Floating Garden Habitat for Wildlife
In the heart of the east end of London, a floating habitat for wildlife has appeared. It's drifting in a stretch of the Regent's Canal, in a peaceful, newly designed park for City workers.
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Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan's 'Crazy Project' for Istanbul: Building a Second Strait
The Turkish prime minister has proposed to dig a second north-south waterway through the city, carving Istanbul up into two peninsulas and one island.
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Motor Boat Turbulence Poses Big Threat to Key Anchor of Aquatic Food Chains
Minuscule and often transparent, zooplankton are little noticed as they float through bodies of water, but their absence can have a big impact on aquatic ecological systems, in which they serve as a
