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Image: Infrastructurist Risk assessment is hard. We humans are hard-wired with many cognitive biases that can often distort our perception of reality and make us fear the wrong things. For example, on average, people will be more afraid of something...
Image: Infrastructurist Risk assessment is hard. We humans are hard-wired with many cognitive biases that can often distort our perception of reality and make us fear the wrong things. For example, on average, people will be more afraid of something...
Photo via Sörn @ flickr On Thursday, the Trust for Public Land released a roster of Hollywood A-listers and companies–including Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, the Walt Disney Company, the LucasFilm Foundation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts...
Image credit: Good When one Peace Corps volunteer came to understand the flimsy safeguards a “reserve” provided the forest near his post in Paraguay, he was motivated to do something that would provide true protections for the trees. The...
Photo via Guardian Most cap and trade schemes proposed by governments include provisions that allow polluting companies to buy carbon offsets –initiatives that pay for tree planting in South America or solar panel installation in India and so forth–instead...
Photo via MotorTrend VW’s 2011 Touareg Hybrid The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many splashy auto announcements — Porsche’s first ever plug-in hybrid , a new Aud… Read the full story on TreeHugger Here is the original: Test...
Photo via MotorTrend VW’s 2011 Touareg Hybrid The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many splashy auto announcements — Porsche’s first ever plug-in hybrid , a new Aud… Read the full story on TreeHugger See the rest here: Test...
Image credit: Good Times are tough for everyone—including municipal governments. One are that has suffered from diminished budgets is public transport. Across the country, transit workers are losing their jobs, making it that much harder to maintain...
Photo: Public domain Other Truck Fleets, Pay Attention Did you know that replacing a pre-1994 diesel truck (or at least the engine) with a 2004-2006 model could cut soot pollution by about 2/3, and reduce smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions...
