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Chinese Subway Riders Given Giant Punching Bags to Deal With Commuter Rage (Video)

5:17 pm in art, Cars & Transportation, transportation by TreeHugger

chinese subway punching bag image Image via YouTube video While not nearly as bad as road rage, some commuters using public transportation could get a little riled up during long or arduous trips in rush hour traffic. One subway station in China may have a clever solution to anyone who needs to vent their stress (or boredom), offering giant punching bags to riders. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Gothenburg to Boras, Sweden Doesn’t Strip

5:23 pm in bike friendly city, bike tours, bikes, Cars & Transportation, scandinavia, sweden by TreeHugger

map of sweden route image "To see the Google Map version of this route, follow this link." Guest poster Robert Ouellette has written for the National Post, Corporate Knights and his own Reading Toronto. He is cycling across Sweden and reports: Sarah and I have spent the better part of an hour trying to find the major road leading out of Gothenburg towards our first stop, Boras, an industrial town built on the textile trade. Something is missing out here at the fringe of Sweden's second largest city. It makes na...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Toyota and Tesla to Build 2012 RAV4 EV in Ontario

2:32 pm in Cars & Transportation, electric cars, electric vehicles, News, Science & Technology, transportation by TreeHugger

toyota-rav4-electric-tesla-2012-canada-photo Photo: Toyota An Electrifying Joint-Venture As I've previously mentioned, Toyota will make an electric version of its RAV4 small SUV using some Tesla technology. Production of the RAV4 EV is scheduled for 2012, and it has now been announced that the partners will build it in Canada....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Food Trucks are Getting Organized and Delicious

4:50 am in Cars & Transportation, Food & Health, food and health, food policy, recipes cooking by TreeHugger

waffle bar photo Photo: eatst. It used to be that street food meant a greasy hot dog from a stand on a busy corner. Things have changed, now it's some of the hippest and most interesting food around; served from recycled and re-fitted vans, ambulances and trucks. From London to New York to Portland, exotic snack trucks are popping up and bringing with them some civic issues....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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California Unveiled New Ecoplate To Mixed Reviews

11:59 pm in california, Cars & Transportation, whales by TreeHugger

california-new-ecoplate-photo.jpg California's New Whale Ecoplate image from California Coastal Commission This past Tuesday, after twenty years, California unveiled a new ecoplate. The new ecoplate looked a lot like the old one, but with a more modern touch, some water drops and a bit more sunshine in the backdrop. While many people liked the new design and the Mayor of Santa Monica encouraged California residents to buy one, not everyone was happy with the new design, especially Wyland, the artist, who designed the former one....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bike Sharing: Saves Lives, Cuts Carbon Emissions

7:09 am in barcelona, bicycle, bike friendly world, bikes, biking, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

Bicing bikes against a blue wall photo Photo thompiks via flickr and Creative Commons license. It's no longer big news when a European city gets a new bike share program, unless they do it bigger, better, or with a technical innovation that hasn't been seen before. It is newsworthy, however, that data is starting to trickle in - in this case, from Barcelona - indicating how beneficial bike sharing is to city residents. Just like regular city biking, bike sharing makes urban residents fitter and drops our greenhouse gas emissions, says a study published in the British Medical Journal. And here's a key poi...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fun With Subway Commuting: Riders Zip Down Playground Slide to Enter Dutch Metro Station (Video)

7:00 am in Cars & Transportation, Design & Architecture, designers, netherlands, public transportation, urban life by TreeHugger

overvecht metro station playground slide utrecht netherlands photo Screenshot from NOS Nieuws video. Let's face it: Even on the nicest, newest subway or bus system, commuting is typically a bit of a grind. One metro station in the Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Local Colorado Brewery Transports Kegs via Tricycle

4:54 pm in beer, bikes, buy local, car free, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

equinox-beer-trike-bootlegger Photos Courtesy of Zach Yendra, Yendra Built Cycles When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save themselves a lot of back-breaking keg-carrying, the Westcotts teamed up with custom bike designers Yendra Built Cycles. The partnership yielded the ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Elon Musk Profiled on Bloomberg TV (Video)

2:36 pm in audio video, Cars & Transportation, electric cars, electric vehicles, News, Science & Technology, television, transportation by TreeHugger

Internet, Space Rockets, Electric Cars & Solar Panels Earlier this week, Bloomberg TV ran an hour-long profile of Elon Musk, the entrepreneur of South-American origins who has been involved in companies like Zip2, Paypal, SpaceX, SolarCity and Tesla Motors. While it isn't just about his green activities, it shows that from the very start he's been thinking about ways to have a big impact on the world (his targeted areas: making commerce possible on the Internet, making space exploration cheaper, making clean energy more accessible and cheaper, and ma...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Celebrating Kindness on the Subway

5:03 am in artist, Cars & Transportation, community development, Culture & Celebrity, transportaton by TreeHugger

st paul photo Photo: B. Alter The artist Michael Landy is out to improve the civility on subways. For the past few months he has been encouraging commuters to commit "Acts of Kindness" by submitting short stories of kindness that they have seen or experienced on the Central line of the London subway system. Some of the resulting stories and comments have now been posted on the walls of the subway platforms and they are quite touching. Kind of renews one's faith in human nature. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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