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Robin Chase on the Birth of Zipcar and the Future of Transportation (Part Two)
Zipcar has been a game changer, but Robin Chase is already on to other things. The next frontier in transportation is a smart network that has your car, iPhone, GPS, and other gizmos sharing chatter with streetlights, power utilities, your insurance
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Robin Chase on the Birth of Zipcar and the Future of Transportation (Part One)
To Robin Chase, parked cars and solo drivers just look like a great big mess of wasted capacity. It’s this kind of thinking that inspired her to start Zipcar (now the world’s largest carsharing company), and GoLoco, the Facebook of ridesharing. It’s
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Four Boutique City Hotels That Let You Use the Bikes for Free
More and more, urban biking has become one of the best ways to see a lot of a city in a short span of time, so it's a no-brainer that more hotels are offering free bikes along with the price of the room. In
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Bike Moves (No U-Haul Required) Branching Out (Video)
Could you move a washer and dryer on a Yuba Mundo cargo bike? Strap a couch to a bike with bungie cords? Feed a hungry troupe of cyclists that helped move your car-free family lock, stock, and
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Could Boston's Big Bike Share Plan Create Kinder, Gentler Drivers?
says Boston Globe reporter Tom Matlack in a recent
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Down:2:Earth Green Living Expo Has a Special Surprise
The Down:2:Earth Green Living Expo is happening April 3-5 in Boston. It's a great place to find green products, learn about the goings on in the environmental community, and educate participants on sustainability. This year's gathering will feature a
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Eco-Patriotism And Stimulating Your Local Economy
Every single American has the power to stimulate their local economies: not by spending more, but by supporting local businesses. In economic theory, more local
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Library Use is Booming Because of Recession
Photo: Flickr The Good Ol' Book is Back in Vogue When green advocates talk about product service systems (PSS), many might be left scratching their heads (if that's you, check out the linked Wikipedia page). Yet we're all familiar with public libraries,
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Free Bike Cages Offer Safe Parking for Commuters
Secure Bike Parking Encourages Multi-Modal Commutes We TreeHuggers love bicycles – but even our obsession may be beaten by the team at StreetFilms who practically live, breathe and eat bicycles and other forms of sustainable transportation. Only
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GreenBuild: Big Ass Fans
In any big space that is heated or air conditioned, the hot air will rise and it will tend to stratify, with hot air stuck at the ceiling, wasting a lot of energy. There are lots of high-tech things you can do, but the dumb simple thing is to simply put
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GreenBuild: Agriboard Structural Insulated Panels
It doesn't look like much, and my photography doesn't help, but for me, this simple product was perhaps the best thing I saw at Greenbuild. But then, I am biased; I like dumb products that just sit there and do their job while reducing our carbon
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GreenBuild: So Many Vendors, So Many USB Media Kits
Media kits are not really necessary anymore; a company can put all of the stuff online. But that doesn't stop companies from trying to put something into your hands to remember them by. USB keys are all the rage, and they get snapped up fast. I refused
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The Big Dig's Unintended Consequence: More Traffic
Boston's Big Dig--the most expensive highway project ever completed in the U.S., which gave Boston "a gleaming new highway system that has made zipping beneath Boston and Boston Harbor much easier"--has had a very ironic and unintended consequence: more
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GreenBuild: So Many Booths, So Much Greenwashing
GreenBuild is just huge, 800 booths, 30,000 people, there probably are more green vendors and green architects in this room than there are green clients in America. One doesn't even want to think about the carbon footprint of bringing everyone to town
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Roomorama: Peer to Peer Rentals Beats Hotel In So Many Ways
By the time I booked for the Greenbuild conference in Boston, every hotel room in the City seemed to be gone. But I have been intrigued by alternate ways of finding a roof and a bed that cost less and open one up to different experiences. TreeHugger
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15 Years, 15 Stories: Seeds of a Green Revolution
My bike and I are off to Boston for the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, to see eight hundred exhibitors, dozens of speakers ranging from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Van Jones and Bill McKibben, with Bill Clinton thrown in. It's huge, and
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Eating Foil Balls and Extension Cords: the 48hr Film Competition
Dangerously Disconnected From our Food "It's easy if you stick to a few basic principles — no real food and nothing from living things [ ] You can't genetically engineer something that doesn't have genes." Tom Bardwell in Hard to
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Green Eyes On: Natural Products Expo East Shows Bright Future for Green Products
Image courtesy of Natural Products Expo EastI can’t really explain my unexpected and sudden optimism, in spite of the mud puddle economy we’re all apparently still living in and the mud slinging political race we’re still slaves to. But there are at
