Mar 18
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Can BYD Deliver on EV Promises?
For a while it looked like BYD would be a leader in electric cars and plug-in hybrids. They had aggressive release schedules, great battery technology (at least on paper), and being based in China, they had some cost advantages over most of their competitors. They even had backing by none other than Warren Buffett! But then we started hearing about Read the full story on TreeHugger

With China getting ready to tie the entire world together with high speed rail, it is easy to forget that America once dominated when it came to innovation in transport. Back in 1870, Alfred Ely Beach built a pneumatic subway under Broadway. (in secret yet; he just had a permit for a package delivery system)
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French container ship in Vohemar, Madagascar, March 12. Photo Derek Schuurman
There was a coup in Madagascar last March, and ever since there has been widespread poaching in the National Parks, for birds, lemurs and lumber. Rosewood is one of the world's most valuable tropical woods, ($ 5,000 per cubic meter) so $40 million of it was chopped (with 
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