Daily Archives: January 20, 2009

Photo Credit: SmartUSA

When we had the opportunity to speak with Smart Car USA President, Dave Schembri, we turned to you, our fellow Treehuggers, to see what sorts of questions you had to ask Dave about their past, current, and future models. Well, we had quite a nice turn out of inquisitive thinkers. So without further adieu

You asked him, we listened, so now let’s turn the mic over to Dave for some answers

Jim Newell of Wonkette on the sad deterioration of the nation’s capital just half a day into the new administration:

Now don’t take this the wrong way, but… yesterday George W. Bush was president, and there wasn’t trash everywhere.

Campagnolo Super Record Bicycle Derailleur, Image credit: Wikipedia

A newly designed computer-based bicycle shifting aide described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Human Factors Modeling and Simulation (subscription only access) is one step back from being an automatic transmission for bikes.

Apparently, sensors for speed, road slope, and “work” send rolling-average, or otherwise “smoothed,” numbers to an on-board bike computer (no photos available). The computer digitally processes the information with an optimiz

In Abu Dhabi, the richest city on the planet, life is good. The average per capita worth here is around $17 million, and business continues to boom. So it is perhaps surprising that this small emirate, which sits on top of one tenth of the world’s oil, should be interested in renewable energy, of all things.

But they are interested, very interested. In fact, the country’s leadership has made a strategic decision to invest enormous amounts of money and effort into building a whole new sector of the economy from scratch, based on renewable energy technologies. The leaders of this country understand that, regardless of how much oil remains to be pulled out of the ground, renewable energy is the

They might have tried this in Washington last night, if it weren’t so cold

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Plug-In Hybrids to be Regulated Out of Existence in California?
The movie Who Killed the Electric Cars? wasn’t very tender on the California Air Resources Board (CARB). They were instrumental in the ‘murder’ of electric cars such as the GM EV1 and Toyota RAV4 EV in California, and now they might be about to do it again with companies that turn hybrid cars into plug-in hybrids.

Read on for more details

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Allowing for some reasonable time for President Obama to settle into the White House furniture, when it comes to Energy and the Environment the time has come to make good on all those campaign promises. And it’s up to all of us to keep the new administration toeing the green line. For those wanting to keep up to date on official White House policy, the new presidential website has been launched. To refresh everyone’s memories, here’s an overview of Obama’s proposed policies:

Lest we give undue support to any of the films in this contest, I picked this video clip at random from all the contest entries to place at the front of the post

The folks running the Clean + Green Video Shorts Contest over at <a href=”http://www.clea

Image via Yanko Design

There are a few products out there already that filter water in the bottle so you can have clean water while on the go, without any bulky filters.

This concept design for easy water filtration could be a favorite among french press users.