In Copenhagen, Denmark, 36 percent of the population – about 600,000 people – bike to work and school everyday on more than 200 miles of bike lanes. 40% of all car trips we make in the United States are less than two miles Depending on where you live, 75 – 90% of your waste can [...]
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Five Friday Facts
July 9th, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Recylcing, Transportation 
Tags: Bicycles, Cars, Waste 
No Comments »Solar Powered Plane Takes Flight, Actually Keeps Flying
July 8th, 2010 Justin Manger Gulp. That may be the sound of me swallowing my words. As this tongue in cheek writing suggests, the idea of a solar powered plane seems silly to me. Solar Impulse, however, is out to prove me wrong. The plane has just finished a 26 hour continuous flight over Europe. 26 hours. You guessed it, that includes [...]
10,000 Chevy Volts Planned for 2011
July 2nd, 2010 Eric Wilson The Wall Street Journal reports that General Motors “will build 10,000 Chevrolet Volts in 2011 and another 30,000 in 2012.” Details had been few and far between regarding GM’s foray into electrically powered cars. According to the story, “The Volt will go on sale later this year in California, Washington, D.C., Austin, Texas, and around [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: California, Cars, Chevy Volt, Electric Vehicles, Honda Clarity, New York City, Tesla No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Cars, Traffic, and Parking
July 2nd, 2010 Justin Manger 600 million passenger cars on the road around the world By 2030, 40 “megacities”- urban areas with more than 10 million residents- are expected to develop around the world 30% of traffic in cities worldwide is caused by people driving around looking for parking, according to a 2007 UCLA study. 45% of the traffic in [...]
Posted in Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Transportation Tags: Cars, iPod/iPhone App No Comments »Hop on the Bus, Gus. It’s Convenient with NextBus.
June 30th, 2010 Justin Manger *This post written on the bus this morning around 8am. I just hopped on the bus to head to downtown D.C. Total time spent waiting for the bus: 3 minutes. This is about the longest I’ve waited for a bus since I started using Nextbus to find out when the bus would arrive. This free [...]
Posted in Behavior, Justin Manger, Policy, Transportation Tags: Energy Conservation, Green Technology, iPod/iPhone App, Mass Transit, Washington DC 4 Comments »Tesla Motors Going Public
June 28th, 2010 Justin Manger The Initial Public Offering (IPO) for electric car start-up Tesla Motors is scheduled for tomorrow June 29th. The company will put 13.3 million shares of stock on sale to the public in order to raise some much needed cash. Tesla shares are expected to open between a range of $14 to $16, at which price the [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Justin Manger, Transportation Tags: Battery, California, Electric Vehicles, Tesla No Comments »D.C.’s Green Map
June 26th, 2010 Justin Manger How many farmer’s markets do you think there are in the District of Columbia? I was thinking around 5-10, only 3 of which I have visited. It turns out there are over 20 in D.C. alone. Would you like to know if your office building is a green building or an EnergyStar facility? How about [...]
One Click to Support a Clean Energy Future
June 16th, 2010 Justin Manger I’ll keep this short. The nearly $1,000,000,000 a day that we send to foreign countries is both Republicans’ and Democrats’ money. The jobs being lost and the economy being destroyed in the Gulf as a result of the Deepwater oil gusher are affecting people without regard to political philosophy. China, with its booming economy and [...]
Great Hiking and Biking Tools in Google Earth 5.2
June 15th, 2010 Justin Manger The newest version of the Google Earth desktop application software allows you to visualize your hiking, biking, and running routes. Since Google Earth version 5.0, you could connect your GPS device directly to Google Earth. This latest update brings the ability to view elevation, speed, and other data from your outings as a graph directly in Google [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conservation, Justin Manger, Local Energy/Food, Transportation Tags: Google, iPod/iPhone App No Comments »Five Friday Facts: World Cup Edition
June 11th, 2010 Justin Manger “The Beautiful Game” of soccer, the world’s most popular sport, begins its fevered quadrennial tournament of hype, excitement, defeat, and victory as teams from around the planet begin battling it out today at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The U.S. takes on England tomorrow June 12th at 2:30pm Eastern Time on ABC. As the [...]
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