Tag: Paris - Page 6
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Bike-Sharing Goes Global: 5 Programs You Should Know About
What is Bike-Sharing? If you at all familiar with the Zip Car model of car-sharing, then you should already undersand how bike-sharing works. Essentially, in a bike-share program bicycles are made available at special kiosks or racks that are
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Eurostar Is Cheaper If You Shop Around
Eurostar Competing with Airlines In these times of record oil prices and global warming fears, train-operator Eurostar seems to be becoming an increasingly popular choice for folks wanting to travel between mainland Europe and the UK. With studies
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Now Free Cars For Paris
First they had the Vélib' in Paris--the scheme where you can pick up a bike, ride it, and drop it off somewhere else. Now the Mayor is proposing the introduction of Voiturelib'--2,000 electric-powered vehicles that subscribers can drive off without
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Paris' Air Pollution Balloon Takes to the Skies
Parisians curious about the quality of the air they're breathing will soon be able to get their daily fill by looking to the sky. A balloon that's been floating above the city's André-Citroën park since 1999 will be modified by its creators, Aérophile,
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Eden Bio by Edouard François
Social housing can be pretty depressing in les banlieues around Paris, and since the 2005 riots architects and planners have been looking for ways to improve them. Edouard François, known for his living buildings with green façades (like the Sprout
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Plants Power Bel-Air, a New Air Filtering System by Mathieu Lehanneur
We featured plants that improve indoor air quality before but these modern looking objects, designed by Parisian designer Mathieu Lehanneur, take air-filtering a step further. Bel-Air is ‘a domestic spacecraft’ whose live plant absorb the toxic
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Electrolux Design Lab 2007: And The Winner Is...
...Levente Szabo. Congratulations to the Hungarian design student, who took home the top prize from the Electrolux Design lab 2007 competition with E-wash, a compact washing washing machine that uses soap nuts instead of detergent. The announcement
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Rm w/a Vu, Paris, $ 616/nuit
It is the Hotel Everland, a project by Swiss artists L/B (Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann)
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Gold & Wood Spectacles, the Green Option for Eyewear?
One area that hasn't been covered much, if at all on TreeHugger, is eyewear, although quite a few of us writers wear glasses as you can see here. We have also come across Stuart Haygarth's beautiful chandelier made from eye glass lens, but don't
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More on The Velib
Bonnie recently extolled the virtues of the Velib, the new Parisian bike rental system; now Eric Rayman of the New York Times tries it out. "The French have embraced communal bike ownership, according to my informal
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Ethical Fashion Show: Parisian Style
It's Paris so they really know how to do fashion and it's ethical so it's our kind of fashion. The Ethical Fashion show is the world's largest event devoted solely to eco and fair trade clothing. Over 4 days designers from forty different countries
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Parisians Love their Velib
We've read about the bicycles around Paris that you can pick up, ride and drop off elsewhere, and now we have seen them. And we are here to report that the concept works and the Parisians are using it like crazy. Called Vélib', you register to get a
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Paris Pledges Emissions Cuts by 2020
Image: Flickr - markhillary While many cities around the world are plagued by infighting when it comes to cutting carbon emissions, Parisians from all ends of the spectrum are coming together to create a green plan for the city. The city's new plan
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Most Huggable: Paris' Accords, More NASA Swiftboating, 'The New Black,' and More
NASA scientist James Hansen finds himself swept up in another episode of Swiftboating…
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Chareau House
As an architecture student, few buildings influenced and excited me as much as the glass house designed in the late twenties by architect Pierre Chareau. It was a model for housing in the machine age, a stunning urban glass and steel box. Nicolai
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Paris Hilton (not) Getting Hummer Hybrid
Paris Hilton's claim to environmentalism seems to have got bogged down in the sand by a comment over a fictional Hummer hybrid. She was recently given a free hybrid by Ford, and apparently later told press that she had also ordered a hybrid Hummer. She
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BikeShare for New York - You Can Make it Happen
Two years ago we reported on Lyon's city bike hire program. A user pays version of the garishly coloured schemes of similar ilk that have been available in Northern Europe for years. Then we observed London, Paris and Barcelona had rolled out similar
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Bio-fuel Tested in Commercial Jet Engine
A blend of bio-fuel and traditional jet fuel has been tested in an aircraft engine which is a common model used by Boeing. This is an exciting move because the engine required no modification to use the fuel, and because of the popularity of the model.
