Info-Overdose

Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years: Cities will have healthier immune systems. City buildings will sense and respond like living organisms. Cars and city buses will run on empty. Smarter [...]

It’s nothing new to Planet Greeners when I saycars suck…but it seems there’s an endless supply of ways to prove it. Case in point: Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives. In this brand new book, authors Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez effectively and accessibly lay out the social, financial, [...]

The green mission presents opportunities on many levels This idea begins in the rainforest but there’s no telling where it may end. When you hear the word rainforest, it may conjure up images of exotic creatures and cultures, intolerable benefit concerts, medicines yet to be discovered, and greenwashing, I mean…”marketing.” But what if you sawopportunity when you thought about rainforests? [...]

As the world prepares for the Copenhagen Summit, the ISC is working with its partners to raise college funds for SOSreach Urban Scholars and providing donors with limited edition Hopenhagen ECO360 t-shirts as a token of appreciation. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 3, 2009 — As the world prepares for the December 7-18 United Nations Climate [...]

History 1. The first human powered land vehicle was constructed by Giovanni Fontana in 1418. 2. The term “bicycle” first entered into popular usage in France in the 1860s. 3. The prototype of the mountain bike was not developed until 1977 Trivia 4. The longest “tandem” bike ever built was almost 67 feet long and could seat 35. 5. The smallest [...]