Building a Better Future: Critical Questions Overview
Want to build a better future for your city and your fellow citizens? Start by considering these eight sets of questions to ask yourself about your city. Once you can answer them, you will have a better understanding of your impact, which you can then improve. If we apply ourselves to changing our cities and the way in which we live in them, the fight against climate change might not seem so hard to win.
Each BigBelly is a bin and compactor in one. By compacting trash on the street, the 32-gallon BigBelly can hold 150 to 200 gallons of trash. The BigBellys are powered by solar panels—they’re entirely off the grid—and send text messages to the city when they’re full, so collection trips are only made when they need to be, instead of requiring a daily drive.
While San Francisco and Portland race to build America’s first city-wide electric car infrastructure, France (which already beat us to bike sharing) may have just lapped them both in an electric Citroen. The French government just announced it will spend $2.2 billion on a network of electric car charging stations:
The government will make the installation of charging sockets obligatory in office parking lots by 2015, and new apartment blocks with parking lots will have to include charging stations starting in 2012.
The new house means I can compost! There was already a compost bin established in the back. I often find myself wondering whether or not something is compostable lately. This list includes come pretty surprising stuff!
50 simple ways you can help save the planet.
Do Your Part by Challenge Your World
There is no magic machine for us to solve the serious and massive environmental crisis we are now facing. We each need to do our part. Collectively, small changes on a large scale will make an enormous impact. There’s no machine. The machine is us.
Mitsubishi’s Too-Cute EV Rolls Out This Year
It’s official: Mitsubishi’s adorable i-MiEV electric car hits the streets of Japan this year, and the automaker says the Lilliputian runabout is “the pioneer that will open the door to the next 100 years of our automobile society.”
That’s a tall order for so small a car, especially one with a price tag approaching $50,000. But Mitsubishi firmly believes the i-MiEV will help usher in the era of electric cars. It hails the i-MiEV as “the ultimate eco-car, a solution to the various challenges the automobile faces today.” Mitsubishi made the announcement late Thursday and timed it to coincide with World Environment Day.
