Joe Biden administration issues $16.4 billion in Northeast Corridor rail grants ~transport Article 3571 words 22 votes
Wind farms are building datacenters to offload electricity in non-peak hours ~enviro energy.renewable Video 12:11 16 votes
Copenhagen is moving away from concrete and asphalt and towards softer, “spongier” settlements that work with the natural flow of the water cycle ~enviro climate change Video 10:53, published Oct 20 2023 8 votes
Modernizing New York commuter rail: through-running service between New York City, New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester, and Connecticut ~transport Article 1813 words 14 votes
Why Norway, the poster child for electric cars, is having second thoughts – we can't let them crowd out car-free transit options ~transport Article 2418 words 43 votes
Norway inaugurated its northern Andøya spaceport Thursday as commercial launch competition on continental Europe heats up ~space rocketry Article 765 words 10 votes
Modernizing railways for high speeds: the engineering challenges in setting speed zones ~transport Article 2071 words 10 votes
Amtrak completes $11.6 million Wilmington, Delaware station renovations ~transport Article 984 words, published Oct 23 2023 14 votes
Kansas City receives $15 billion in federal funding for mobility and infrastructure projects ~transport Article 746 words 13 votes
Estonia-Finland pipeline explosion – what's the evidence that the damage was deliberate? ~enviro energy Article 917 words 13 votes
Japan uses blue instead of green on traffic lights ~engineering Article 495 words, published Sep 22 2017 25 votes
The costs of not investing in American public infrastructure, research, and education ~tech Article 5332 words, published Oct 17 2023 29 votes
Biking the goods: How North American cities can prepare for and promote large-scale adoption of cargo e-bikes ~transport PDF 8 votes
Germany’s terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency ~transport Article 1999 words 23 votes
A matter of life and death: Water runs out for two million people in Gaza ~news israel palestine Article 521 words 23 votes
Book review: Crossings by Ben Goldfarb - how our roads have become an invasive species ~books reviews Article 1227 words 6 votes
NATO will discuss damage to gas pipeline running between Finland and Estonia – will mount a determined response if a deliberate attack is proven ~enviro energy Article 534 words 11 votes
As rooftop solar debate flares, builders, landlords and renter advocates are taking sides ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1769 words 15 votes
Vermont utility plans to end outages by giving customers batteries ~enviro energy Article 1256 words 14 votes
The largest dam removal in history stirs hopes of restoring California tribes' way of life ~enviro Article 2488 words, published Oct 5 2023 19 votes
Baltic Sea gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia is shut down over a suspected leak ~enviro energy Article 439 words 9 votes
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water ~enviro water.fresh water.drinking Article 1140 words, published Sep 27 2023 26 votes
Analyzing Frank Herbert's Dune from an architectural perspective ~design architecture Video 17:52 10 votes
Global demand for drinkable water is on the rise – Norwegian company Waterise is responding by desalinating the sea into clean, drinkable water ~enviro water.salt water.drinking Article 479 words 9 votes
California High-Speed Rail project scores 202 million dollar federal grant. Here’s what it will pay for. ~transport Article 366 words, published Sep 25 2023 21 votes
New Orleans officials seek to build a freshwater pipeline as saltwater wedge inches closer ~enviro water.fresh water.salt Article published Sep 27 2023 11 votes
Those who have longed for a railway connection to Tromsø have been left disappointed once again – Nord-Norgebanen ‘too expensive’ ~transport Article 645 words 13 votes
Joe Biden administration announces $1.4 billion to improve US rail safety and boost capacity in thirty-five states ~transport Article 1039 words 34 votes
‘We can’t drink oil’: How a seventy-year-old pipeline imperils the Great Lakes ~enviro water energy Article 2281 words 31 votes
The movement for affordable, community-led broadband: Grassroots organizations like NYC Mesh want to close the digital divide, one rooftop at a time ~tech internet Article 3710 words 20 votes
What is saltwater intrusion and how is it affecting Louisiana’s drinking water? ~enviro water.salt water.drinking Article 717 words 17 votes
Norway's Fyllingsdalen tunnel is a showstopping piece of urban cycling infrastructure – for a city where car-centric development still dominates ~transport Article 77 words 11 votes
Small US cities experiment with grant funded Uber-like microtransit ~transport Article 1175 words 16 votes
Nigerian power grid in ‘total system collapse’. Generation falls to zero, with blackouts across most of Africa’s largest economy ~enviro energy Link 20 votes
US extremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts — and that’s not even the scariest part ~enviro energy Article 2041 words, published Sep 10 2023 29 votes
Germany will force 80% of gas stations to install EV charging ~transport Article 386 words, published Sep 8 2023 53 votes
How much of your US city is parking lots? ~design urban planning Article 490 words, published Feb 8 2023 30 votes
More than 150 car models too big for regular UK parking spaces ~transport Article 617 words, published Aug 26 2023 51 votes
Why investing in new nuclear plants is bad for the climate ~enviro energy.renewable climate change Link 32 votes
Chicago: Fifty years after it was promised, the South Red Line Extension is slated to get a $1.973B grant ~transport Article 1012 words, published Sep 8 2023 13 votes
Toyota takes its biggest US port off the grid with hydrogen system ~enviro energy.renewable Article 481 words, published Sep 7 2023 35 votes
India, the US, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, European Union (EU), Italy, France, and Germany have announced an ambitious infrastructure plan — the ‘India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor’ ~news india Article 996 words 11 votes