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5 Innovations That Make You Want To Wear A Helmet

| Published March 8, 2010

Couple Wearing Yakkay Helmets in the park photo
Photo credit Yakkay via Facebook.

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

Posted in Cars & Transportation, bikes | Tagged helmet manufacturers, hornet, hornet s nest, innovations, photo credit | Leave a comment

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

| Published September 28, 2009

video games photo
photo: Gamerscoreblog.com via flickr.

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

Posted in Business & Politics, carbon emissions, environmental footprint, population growth | Tagged fred pearce, gamerscoreblog, hornet s nest, new scientist, population growth | Leave a comment

PHEVs and EVs; Plugging Into a Lump of Coal

| Published August 29, 2009

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…

Posted in Clean Transportation, Energy Storage, batteries | Tagged carbon abatement, greenhouse gas abatement, hornet s nest, mckinsey company, nuclear power plants | Leave a comment

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