Doug Lanksy of the Guardian tours the Jumbo Hostel, a conversion of a 747 into a hostel. After all, if you can't afford the five thousand bucks to sleep on a 380 to Dubai, you can squeeze into the former queen of the skies for fifty bucks if you share with two others, "one to sleep with and one who promises not to watch." What a great idea!
An environmental disaster of epic proportions just happened in Tennessee. Monday night 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallons, 48 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill by volume) of coal ash sludge broke through a dike at TVAs Kingston coal-fired power plant covering 400 acres up to six feet deep, damaging 12 homes and wrecking a train.
Uli Ploeckl shows Matthew McDermott and Graham Hill of TreeHugger the new all-electric MINI E. Plus, Graham and Mat take it out for a brief spin around Manhattan.
They may have crushed all of the EV1 electric cars, but they didn't crush the technology; it lives on at Aerovironment, used primarily in industrial vehicles and forklifts.
Driving it was interesting, I have rarely driven an SUV so I was more preoccupied by the feel of the car than the characteristics of the engine. However I asked if I could put the pedal to the metal and was impressed by the push back into the seat and watching the Kilowatt gauge go through the roof as I burned through the hydrogen.
For a long time this TreeHugger has been promoting the idea of residential composting toilets, saying that " If we are truly going to develop a zero waste society and protect our water resources, we are going to have to start thinking about dealing with all of our wastes and not keep flushing some of them down the pipe."
Urban design after the age of oil is a symposium discussing the future of cities. We asked Charles waldheim of the University of Toronto for his opinions about the issue of automobiles
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