When I think of car rallies, two big names come to mind: the
Mongol Rally and the
Paris-Dakar Rally. Although incredibly adventurous, they don’t really evoke images of eco-friendliness. But a group of British eco-enthusiasts have recently finished up their own
environmentally conscious rally…
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This week’s Friday Photo was taken during sunset at Squaw & Papoose Rock in the Dark Canyon Wilderness Area in southeastern Utah. The area has a total of 47,116 acres and is protected by the Forest Service. Located near the town of Blanding, the area was once…
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Unless you’ve been hiding out in a bomb shelter for the past year, you’ve noticed that energy prices keep going up, and that fossil fuels are becoming scarcer and scarcer. One of the most major incentives for the development of renewable energy in the private sector…
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Justin Lemire-Elmore owns an electric bike store in Vancouver, Canada. But he’s not just motivated to sell them, he is committed to showing that he can cross Canada on one of his bikes using only $10 of electricity. On Thursday night he crossed into Saskatchewan, meaning he’s…
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With the rise in corn prices, factory farms are looking for cheaper ways to feed their cattle. Solution? Reject M&Ms and potato chips. Is anyone else concerned??? Because the health implications of ingesting chocolate-fed beef seem questionable to me.
If you’ve read books like
Omnivore’s…
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Apparently you can do everything on your bike now… including making waffles. Watch this creative video to find out just how a waffle bike works. My favorite part is biking with the chicken who lays the eggs used to make waffles… an ingenious and sustainable project (well, maybe not the…
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Fall is just around the corner and winning a
Marmot Gravity Jacket would certainly help out your autumn wardrobe now wouldn’t it? The jacket is Marmot’s best-selling soft shell; highly wind-resistant and waterproof yet stretchy with adjustable Velcro cuffs, a DriClime lined collar and chin guard, and…
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What a better way to kick off your Labor Day Weekend than a trip to the
2008 Maryhill Festival of Speed IGSA World Championships. It’s downhill skateboarding, inline skating, street luge and gravity bikes all in one place; basically, as the website points out, “a speed junkie’s paradise.”
Between…
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Steins of craft beer, yodelers, and accordion players… sounds like Germany. Actually it’s Portland’s very own
Widmer Brothers Brewing Oktoberfest. Organized as a tribute to the world-renowned celebration in Munich Germany, Widmer’s version of Oktoberfest might be on a slightly smaller scale but it certainly isn’t…
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All I have to say after watching this video on how to increase your chances at winning rock, paper, scissors is “but what will happen if everyone plays paper?” Of course maybe that doesn’t happen at events like the
Rock, Paper, Scissors World Championships (wait, there’s a world championship…
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It’s not pointillism… it’s recycling.
[Via
New Gadgets]
D.C. isn’t the only city that’s getting to try out the benefits of bike share programs. This time it’s Denver, who as the host of the Democratic National Convention, is
welcoming a fleet of 1,000 bikes — all to share. Brought in by
Freewheelin — a…
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Earlier this summer
we wrote about the Junk Raft project, the barge made of 15,000 plastic bottles that was to carry three activists from the west coast to Hawaii in order to raise awareness about the obscene amount of plastics in our oceans. Well the barge and…
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When traveling abroad, it’s always helpful to know a few key phrases to help you out with the locals. But some languages are harder to learn than others. For us English speakers, mastering “hello” and “thank you” in the Germanic or Romance languages that are common in…
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