Wear Lycra, Live Longer (And Ride a Bike)
Here are things that have proven time and time again: Bicycles are a great way to get around. Exercise helps your health. Bicycles are a good source of exercise. Exercise…
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Paris to Spend €100m on Bike Lanes While Reducing Car Traffic
Paris has had a tough time with traffic and pollution in the city due to the number of cars. They have launched many environmentally friendly intitaves to curb the use…
5 Socially Good Business Practices Predicted for 2015
Marketing firm JWT has complied a list of trends in socially conscious practices that business will be interested in for 2015. See the report here. This is great that marketers…
Using Drones in Nifty Ways
Toronto Skyline Porn from Ryan Emond on Vimeo. Remote controlled drones are pretty neat! Sure, the military industrial complex uses them to murder people, but that’s just one way to…
Slow Increasing Carbon Waste by Growing Cities
People living in cities have a lower carbon footprint than those in the suburbs and rural areas. Some people find this rather counter intuitive for reasons I don’t fully understand.…
Toyota Releases 5,680 Patents for Fuel Cell Technology
Toyota has followed Tesla’s strategy of giving their patented technology away for free. The patent system is so obviously broken so it’s nice to see these large corporations just letting…
A New Perspective on Depression
Depression seemed to be talked about more last year than in previous years thanks to celebrities revealing their troubles with the affliction. There’s also been more research into depression. With…
A Veggie Diet Could Prolong Your Life
There are tons of benefits from having a vegetarian diet from improved individual health to having less of an impact on the environment. Now there’s one more reason to have…
Will Iceland be the “Switzerland of Data”?
Iceland is the de facto home of Wikileaks and is also a country concerned with privacy issues. The country is now considering leveraging their experience and reputation of being digital-data…
Painting Neighbourhoods
Artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn create community art by painting entire neighborhoods, and involving those who live there — from the favelas of Rio to the streets of North…
Harvest Energy From Everyday Activities
Some gyms are capturing the energy created by users to power the TVs in the buildings. But what if we capture energy from our movements throughout the day? That’s what…
This Classroom Makes More Energy Than it Consumes
Anderson Anderson Architecture has built a classroom in Hawaii that generates more energy than it consumes, making what they call a “energy positive” building. The term “energy positive” is being…
No Need to Deforest the Planet for More Food
One of the leading causes of deforestation right now is food production. As population levels grow we need more land to feed more people and this as resulted in the…
Austrialian Team Gets Solar Efficiency Over 40%
It’s been said that once solar power efficiency gets to 40% it’ll be a tipping point for the mass use of solar panels. Now we can see if that is…
A Look Into the Ig Nobel Awards
The Ig Nobel Prize is dedicated to science that makes you laugh then makes you think. It’s a fun and great way to get people engaged in science while exploring…
More People are Employed in Green Energy Than in the Tar Sands
Despite the fact that the tar sands get more subsidies than green energy solutions in Canada, the green energy providers employ more people. Clean Energy Canada released a report today…
Rob Ford No Longer Mayor of Toronto
Rob Ford has been the worst mayor of Toronto and as of today he’s officially no longer mayor. I say officially because he was stripped of his real power over…
Growing the Green Roof Industry in North America
Green roofs are great! They help alleviate a lot of issues that arise in urban living while making cities more beautiful. There is growing interest in making sure that urban…
New York City’s Simple, and Green, Flood Prevention
New York, like other large cities, has a lot of impermeable services which means that when it rains there is little to contain the water. By using green infrastructure of…
Keep Your Brain Healthy by Living in Walkable Neighbourhoods
Just when you think there couldn’t be more reasons to live in and build walkable communities another one pops up. We already know that walkable communities are safer, more environmentally…