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Thursday, Jun 14, 2007

Use Wind Power to Recharge your Mobile Phone


- mark 6-14-2007 9:12 pm [link] [2 comments]

Monday, Apr 23, 2007

The proposal for “congestion pricing,” which City Hall believes would reduce traffic and auto emissions while raising money for transportation projects, has already been met by harsh criticism from drivers and some officials outside Manhattan.

Other proposals in the plan, dubbed PlaNYC by the mayor’s staff, range from building huge capital projects and creating government authorities to implementing relatively benign initiatives in housing, transportation and land use.

One proposal calls for investments of $200 million a year from both the city and state to create a financing authority that would assure the completion of major projects like the Second Avenue subway. New authorities, with representatives from the city, state and private industry, would push for improved energy efficiency in new buildings and for the replacement of energy-guzzling power plants.

The city also would encourage the construction of platforms over railyards and highways to create land for housing. In addition, the plan would open 290 schoolyards as playgrounds, eliminate city sales taxes on energy-efficient hybrid vehicles, increase the number of bike paths and cultivate mussels to suck pollution out of the rivers.

Much of the plan, including its most costly proposals, would require state approval. Gov. Eliot Spitzer did not attend Mr. Bloomberg’s address, although another governor — Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, who appeared via videotape on two large screens — introduced the mayor.

Governor Spitzer, in a brief statement released late yesterday, said: “The mayor has released a comprehensive plan with admirable goals, especially the commitment to reduce energy consumption, and we look forward to reviewing the plan.”

- bill 4-23-2007 11:59 pm [link] [add a comment]

Tuesday, Apr 17, 2007

I'm still not exactly sure what to make of James Kunstler, but I can definitely agree with him that Tom Friedman is an idiot.
- jim 4-17-2007 6:52 pm [link] [add a comment]

Friday, Apr 06, 2007

Possible solar cell breakthrough. We'll see when they hit production.

- jim 4-06-2007 5:11 pm [link] [add a comment]

Sunday, Mar 04, 2007

My Dot-Green Future Is Finally Arriving - Bruce Sterling Op-Ed in the WaPo.

- jim 3-04-2007 6:00 pm [link] [add a comment]

Thursday, Mar 01, 2007

light it up


- bill 3-01-2007 6:55 pm [link] [add a comment]

Friday, Feb 02, 2007

all about us

PARIS, Feb. 2 —The world is already committed to centuries of warming, shifting weather patterns and rising seas from the atmospheric buildup of gases that trap heat, but the warming can be substantially blunted by prompt action, an international network of climate experts said today.

- bill 2-02-2007 4:28 pm [link] [5 comments]

water producing windmills
via schwarz
- steve 2-02-2007 1:13 pm [link] [3 comments]

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007

nycs first green building

- dave 1-25-2007 6:16 pm [link] [add a comment]

pee in style

- linda 1-25-2007 5:56 pm [link] [4 comments]






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