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Flood Maps

Link: Flood Maps.

Overlays sea-level rises on Google Maps, very cool. Don't buy in Richmond...

The City of Bikes » Celsias

Link: The City of Bikes » Celsias.

About community bike programs in Paris and Lyon. This works like the Vancouver car co-op, in that you have to buy in to get the smart card that will unlock the bikes (actually, this is a bit more hi-tech than the car co-op) - so the people who take the bikes can be tracked, and all the bikes will not be nicked within minutes. I would absolutely buy into such a program if one were to come here - I might not have spent 6 hours walking this sunday (not quite the original plan, it was a nice day and the short trips added up. Then I went for a run. I must be out of my mind.)

The big chill | Salon Life

Link: The big chill | Salon Life.

Open your Subzeros, people. Balsamic vinegar? Mustard? These and many other foodstuffs do not require refrigeration.

I am actually guilty of some of these sins...

LA Weekly - General - Heaven's Gate: The Sequel - Joshuah Bearman - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles

Link: LA Weekly - General - Heaven's Gate: The Sequel - Joshuah Bearman - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles.

Ten years after the 39 suicides, the sole survivor is back – and he has something urgent to tell us.

When to Violate the Top Two Commandments of Antigovernment Crusaders - New York Times

Link: When to Violate the Top Two Commandments of Antigovernment Crusaders - New York Times.

Antigovernment crusaders have also prevented the adoption of energy policies that would produce better outcomes for all. For example, economists of all political stripes have argued that a stiff tax on gasoline would relieve traffic congestion, reduce greenhouse gases, accelerate the development of energy-saving technologies and reduce dependence on foreign oil. But it would also impose significant economic hardship on low-income families, making it necessary to increase transfer payments to those families. Both the tax on gasoline and the transfers to low-income families would be clear violations of the two commandments. And so gasoline taxes continue to be far lower in the United States than in other industrial countries.

It's like trying to do electronics without feedback loops, innit?

(The comments on AutoBlogGreen illustrate exactly the kind of blind resistance that moves like this face in the US - and this is on a blog about green car technology, FFS, not exactly Little Green Footballs.)

LA Weekly - A Terrible Thing to Waste

Link: LA Weekly - A Terrible Thing to Waste.

Convicted as an ecoterrorist, a brilliant young scholar nose-dives in prison

A deeply upsetting story of yet another apparent miscarriage of justice.