The New Electric Vehicle Race
Back in 2009, auto blog Gas 2.0 published a fun little rivalry between former mayors of San Francisco and Portland who each declared that their city would be the EV…
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Book Review of Mad Sheep
A Fine Line Between Safety and Panic: A Sheep Story My grandmother’s first husband died of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, otherwise known as mad cow disease, years before my grandmother married my…
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Forest Elephants In Danger With New Roads In Africa
The African Forest elephant is a species under threat these days. Scientists in 1989 estimated there were 170,000 elephants left in the wild from approximately 700,000 a few decades ago.…
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Increasing Support For Climate Change
In a post Hurricane Sandy world, the United States of America seems to be slowly waking up to the effects of climate change. Increasingly intense storms and changing weather patterns…
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Land And Water Grabbing A Global Phenomenon
A recent study by the University of Virginia and the Polytechnic University of Milan titled Global Land and Water Grabbing is the first global quantitative assessment of land and water grabbing, Science Daily reports.…
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Madagascar Lemurs Increasingly Endangered
Of the 103 species of lemurs, over 90% should be on the Red List of Threatened Species. This is according to an assessment made by the Primate Specialist Group of…
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3 Days with a 2012 Chevy Volt
I have an awesome job; I get to work with some really great companies and do some cool things. Recently Chevrolet along with the social media analytics gurus at Klout asked if…
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Red Pandas
Kung Fu Panda’s small but terrible martial arts master Shifu would be glad. BBC News reports that a male red panda has been transferred from the Paignton Zoo in Devon to Galloway Wildlife Conservation…
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The Most Efficient Cars
Many of us depend on the personal auto on a daily basis in order to get from one place to another. The personal auto plays a major role in our…
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