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It might sound like a character dreamed up by Dr. Seuss, but Google is banking that the Schweeb could help transform the way we get around. Pairing a recumbent bubble bicycle and monorail, the Schweeb is among the five winners—out of 150,000 submissions—of Google’s Project 10^100, a call for ideas that could change the world. The goliath dot-com is awarding the Schweeb’s creators $1 million to test it in an urban setting. (Until then, anyone wanting to give it a go will have to hop over to New Zealand, where the Schweeb is an amusement park ride at the Agroventures Park in Rotorua.)
Marine Biologist, Honeybee Researcher and 21 Others Take Home $500,000 MacArthur Grants
09/29/2010
 Marine biologist Kelly Benoit-Bird, a MacArthur Fellow. Courtesy John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. |
Oil Spill Update: Poll Shows Environmental Restoration High Priority in Gulf States and Voters Want BP to Pay
09/29/2010
Restoration efforts will help protect the habitat of the roseate spoonbill and hundreds of other bird species, as well as marine animals. Credit Rebecca Field
Voters in Gulf Coast states—whether Republican or Democrat—overwhelmingly support restoring the health of the region, a new poll shows.
 Photo courtesy of Matt Duckor |
Going once, going twice, going for $1,000 a crate. Last week at an event titled “The Art of Farming,” Sotheby’s auctioned off 10 crates of heirloom vegetables, vintage varieties that weren’t created by agribusiness. The proceeds will benefit the GrowNYC New Farmers Development Project, which helps immigrants get into farming, and the Sylvia Center, which helps kids learn how to eat well. But more than anything, the auction, the first of its kind for Sotheby’s, showed just how valuable heirlooms and the mostly organic farmers that grow them have become.
 Image: U.S. Fish & Wildlife |
That’s precisely what happens with almost all profits from the annual Federal Duck Stamp. This year’s (above)—featuring an American wigeon by artist Robert Bealle—is hot off the presses.
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Odd and Amusing Environmental News Roundup
09/24/2010
Photo Courtesy of James Cahill
Oil Spill Update: Experts Weigh In on Next Steps to Protect Birds, Marine Animals, and Habitat
09/23/2010
Photo: Kim Hubbard/Audubon Magazine
Five months after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank, unleashing an unprecedented amount of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the well is dead. Permanently plugging BP’s well proved to be an incredible feat of engineering, but now comes the really hard part: restoring damaged habitat and protecting the wildlife that depend on it. We asked experts, from environmentalists and scientists to government agencies and legislators, what the most important next steps are. Here’s what they have to say.
