Author: Chris Tackett
Cat Johnson at Shareable points to a new survey that finds there is “a nationwide trend toward “disownership” that crosses age, geographic and cultural boundaries.”
Read the full story at http://www.treehugger.com/economics/sharing-economy-grows-survey-finds-nationwide-disownership-trend.html.
Author: Lloyd Alter
Once again, another survey shows that the “drive ’till you qualify” approach to buying a home no longer appeals. Joel Kotkin can suck on this: A new BMO (big Canadian bank) survey shows a wide disparity between what older repeat homeowners are looking for and what younger first time buyers want.
Read the full story at http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/yet-another-survey-confirms-young-people-want-be-town-near-transit-not-suburbs.html.
Author: A.K. Streeter
We’ve reviewed a lot of bike lights in TreeHugger, and this new one is a little different. Inventor and tinkerer John Craig has created an easily removable, battery-powered brake light that senses a cyclist’s decelerations in order to strongly flash when a bike is coming to a stop.
Calling his new Kickstarter campaign invention the LucidBrake, Craig says the light will help save lives by preventing some of the accidents caused by drivers that say they just don’t ‘see’ cyclists. The LucidBrake has a patent-pending algorithm that is supposed to ignore normal wheel rotations and road bumpiness, yet sense the deceleration that indicates slowing down or stopping. The brake’s eight LED lights are placed in an octagon shape so that they resemble a stop sign.
Read the full story at http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/howd-they-do-it-new-bike-brake-light-completely-wireless.html.
New Executive Order from President Obama making open and machine readable the new default for government information:
Author: Victoria Woollaston
The first flying cars are set to go on sale to the public as early as 2015.
Terrafugia has announced its Transition design, which is part sedan, part private jet with two seats, four wheels and wings that fold up so it can be driven like a car, will be on sale in less than two years.
The Massachusetts-based firm has also unveiled plans for a TF-X model that will be small enough to fit in a garage, and won’t need a runway to take off.
Read the full article at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2321160/Is-flying-car-FINALLY-Terrafugia-Transition-set-sale-years.html.
Author: Jane Wakefield
Researchers at IBM have redrawn the bus routes of Ivory Coast’s largest city using mobile phone data.
The research was completed as part of the Data for Development competition run by Orange which released 2.5 billion call records from five million mobile phone users in Ivory Coast.
The anonymised data is the largest of its kind ever released.
Such data could be used by urban planners for new infrastructure projects, said IBM.
Read the full article at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22357748.