thegreenurbanist:

davewellbeloved:

Now this is a good idea. Love one of these near my house

(via London Cycling Campaign)

Would love one of these for my office. 

As we say in Maine, that’s wicked smaht.

It’s getting kind of crowded on Mount Everest. 

climateadaptation:

kqedscience:

Astronauts Snag Dramatic Photographs of Alaska’s Erupting Volcano

Astronauts living on board the International Space Station managed to get these dramatic pictures of the Pavlof Volcano as it erupted over the weekend. The volcano began acting up last Monday, the 13th, its first eruption since 2007.”

See more images at The Atlantic.

Definitely click through!

Fast Company has a spread on a cool “zero-energy” house. 

I can tell you, at this time in my life, I had 7,747 kids that I was responsible for, and I could only account for my two children.
— C.J. Huff, the superintendent of Joplin, Mo. schools, from his striking PopTech talk about resilience in the wake of a killer tornado. 

Eery, creepy timelapse vid of the Oklahoma tornado…

There is a space plane in there.  

Mr. Obama has a firm grasp of the climate issue, and no one doubts that he cares about it. But as is often the case with this president, the question is whether he will exhibit a sense of urgency to match his intellectual understanding.
— New York Times editorial board