Tag: emissions
Air Quality for Bikers
If you see people biking around Boston this week with what looks like an oxygen tube hanging off them, no, it’s not a bizarre experimental treatment for lung cancer. The Cambridge Public Health Department is conducting an air quality study for bikers, and this week I’m helping them take measurements. To do this, I’m wearing […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2011 under Transportation.
Tags: air quality, bicycles, biking, Doesn't microaethalometer sound like something from The Golden Compass?, emissions, exhaust
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Reducing the Impact of Flying
Sorry I was incommunicado last week. Things have been a little crazy, what with our trip to Chicago for our friends’ wedding (congrats, Jim and Raquel!) and my upcoming work trip to Cuba. Between the two of them, they’ve really added to my carbon footprint for the year in just a month. Two four-hour round-trip […]
Posted: November 30th, 2010 under Transportation.
Tags: airplanes, carbon footprint, emissions, environmental impact, flying, Is it too Final Destination-y if I start singing "Leaving on a Jet Planet"?, plane trips
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