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Nissan's Land Glider: Lean Wit’ It
Nissan has a new concept car out called the Land Glider. It's a tiny, light-weight electric four-wheeler that actually leans as you drive. Watch...
Cities
The GOOD 100: Cities
The New American Dream During a decade when Americans returned to cities for the first time in 50 years, it surprises me that "urban" can still...
Environment
Maybe the Road Itself Can Charge Your Car
A German company called IAV has just received a patent for technology that would allow a strip embedded in the road to charge your electric car...
Design
The Best Commuter Bike Ever
Portland is holding an event called Oregon Manifest at the moment. It's a six-week series of events celebrating "the art, craft and community of...
Cities
Infrastructure Électrique: France Spends $2.2 Billion on Charging Stations
While San Francisco and Portland race to build America's first city-wide electric car infrastructure, France (which already beat us to bike...
Cities
Want to Know if an Urban Environment Supports Cycling? Measure the Proportion of Women on Bikes
According to Jan Garrard, a senior lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, the best way to determine how favorable a given city is...
Technology
Car Sharing: There's an App for That
Full-scale integration of car sharing might be a long way off in America, but, now that the free Zipcar App for iPhone and iPod Touch is...
Environment
Airport Offers Instant Carbon Offsets, While You Fly
San Francisco's airport has just introduced a new kiosk where you can buy carbon offsets for the flight you are about to take with the swipe of a...
GOOD Blog
Miles per Gallon: Soon to Be Useless
With any luck, we'll be moving on from these gas-only automobiles in the coming years and that means we'll have to find some measure for a car's...
Design
Belgium’s New Calatrava Train Station
The city of Liège, Belgium just opened their new high-speed train station, designed by the illustrious Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava,...
GOOD Blog
Is This the Future of Indoor Transportation?
Honda's U3-X might have uses in hotels and airports, but will it usher in a Wall-E-style future? Probably. Via Core77.
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Emergency in Mumbai? Dial 1298!
Americans take 911 for granted, but in many developing nations a centralized emergency telephone number is unheard of. In Mumbai, a private...
Design
Hippo Rollers
In rural Africa, women spend 26% of their time fetching water, often walking for miles with heavy buckets balanced on their heads. That's time...
