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Beautiful Hardwood Bicycle #bike #gearlust
Renovo R3 Road cycle. So apparently bamboo and hardwood cycles are more flexible and better at vibration absorbtion, so the ride is very smooth. The other hardwood cycles on this site are also gorgeous!
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Mojave Solar One Site Selection
Having grown up in the Mojave desert, seeing the first Solar One demonstration project constructed, I had no idea a second project location was being selected. Who doesn’t like solar power? Well, it’s important to not destroy habitat, and while we need solar power, the environmental considerations for a project done 20 years ago have…
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Home energy calculator
This appears to be an interesting energy calculator, but I haven’t attempted my own energy calculation with it yet. I did look at the Dept of Energy’s website recently at power saving tips, and the one that struck me the most was this: move your fridge away from your over,range, or exhaust vents. http://hes.lbl.gov/consumer
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Not a Welder? Build a Bamboo Bike #biketowork
Great segment. Also Google for Renovo Panda. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121628758&ps=rs
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Bike trails in DC to natl bike trail system #biketowork
Great Interview! Recommendations for creating more bicycling and walking transit alternatives…walking and biking paths, a national biking trail system! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126263488&ps=rs
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Biking When Pregnant? #biketowork
Wow, conventional wisdom certainly doesn’t agree with biking to work. I love too see this notion challenged. However, I’d guess that recumbents would be so much more comfortable when pregnant, no? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/may/21/pregnant-cyclists
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Happy Bike to Work Day!
I wonder if Mayor Pike is going to be at the downtown BTWD celebration station? I hope everyone’s got air in their tires!
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How were Cro-Magnon and Neanderthals different?
Very interesting interview with Brian Fagan talking about early humans, what evidence we’ve collected, their mitochondial timeline, and their practical lives. http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4509.html
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Cross another 1000 off #biketowork
As I was biking home, gazing at a nearly complete triple rainbow left in the wake of a passing thunder cloud that was hailing on us minutes before, my odometer crossed 1000 miles. This is the odometer I got in January and put on the gray mountain bike. (The blue mountain bike has about 1500…
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