5 Innovations That Make You Want To Wear A Helmet

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This is not a story of why you should wear your helmet. We’re not going to get into that hornet’s nest…if we can help it. The debate may never be over. Instead, we’re going to show off the ways helmet manufacturers are trying to make you WANT to wear your helmet…if you want to wear a helmet. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

Resource Overconsumption Not Population Growth the Real Environmental Problem: Fred Pearce

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Every time I write about overpopulation it’s like poking the proverbial hornet’s nest: Nothing, and I mean nothing, evokes as visceral responses as suggesting people have fewer children. Well, in a new piece for New Scientist, Fred Pearce asserts that population growth is t…Read the full story on TreeHugger
PHEVs and EVs; Plugging Into a Lump of Coal
John Petersen Since I’ve stirred up a hornet’s nest over the last two weeks first by debunking the mythology that PHEVs and EVs will save their owners money and then by showing how PHEVs and EVs will sabotage America’s…