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Stuff We Need: OdeWire
I’ve been a reader of Ode Magazine for years, and I regularly feel grateful for such a consistent source of positive news stories in a world dominated by negative-focused media. All the more reason,...
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Stuff We Need: Solar Bridges
Apropos my post from July, where I assert that green energy and infrastructure projects, and the millions of jobs they could provide, are painfully obvious no-brainers, no-brainers that we ignore at...
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Stuff We Need: Solar Blimps
Call ‘em blimps. Call ‘em zeppelins. Call ‘em dirigibles (if you can pronounce it). Call ‘em airships. Whatever, if they are are solar and zero emissions and can carry cargo, we need ‘em! Carbon...
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Stuff We Need: Scrapblasters!
I haven’t posted a Stuff We Need installment in a while, maybe because I’ve been too overwhelmed with stuff lately, like moving 20 years of accumulated stuff from one house to another, and having been...
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Stuff We Need: More U in EV SUVs
My wife and I own an old Toyota Previa van, like the one pictured here, it has over 200,000 miles on it, it squeals loudly driving around town, it hums loudly at highway speeds, it probably needs...
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Stuff We Need: Plastic-eating Fungus
Just about a year ago, I blogged about an article that prompted me to reconsider my just-say-no-to-plastics mantra. No, it didn’t convert me into a lobbyist for the plastics industry. Heck, I still...
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Stuff We Need: $20 Cardboard Bicycles
Image Source: SpokeNwheels Yesterday, I posted the first new installment in my Stuff We Don’t Need series since December 2011. That post was bicycle-related, in that it was a critique of a $3,600...
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Stuff We Need: Better Wind Turbines, Part II
Back in May 2010, I wrote about the conflict between conventional windmill turbines and avian wildlife. And while my research into the issue revealed that wind turbine blades don’t actually harm that...
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Stuff We Need: Cardboard Bike Helmets!
Today’s Stuff We Need installment is a great story. I mean any story involving bicycles, head injuries, woodpeckers and cardboard HAS to be good, right? Via Good.is: When Anirudha Surabhi was a grad...
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Best of Fish & Bicycles: Stuff We Need: Electric Roadways
Originally Published: November 4, 2010 I read some great, hope-inspiring stuff on the automotive front today. While I’m a big fan of mass transit, I tend to think that sustainable transportation plans...
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Stuff We Need: Affordable Electric Vehicles, Revisited
Back in July 2010, I wrote about electric vehicles (EV), making the claim that EVs will have to be much more affordable and charging stations more numerous and convenient in order for the desperately...
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Stuff We Need: The Evolution Of The Backpack
I haven’t posted an installment in my Stuff We Need series in quite a while, and I’d like to think it’s because I’ve made progress in my effort to curtail my overall need or perceived need for stuff....
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