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Toyota is investing heavily in its hybrid platform, offering more models, both larger and smaller. In 2010 it will start a demo program for plug-in hybrids with an "eco mode," or a downtown-use option, in which the vehicle will run for 20 miles on electricity before the gas engine kicks...
Seoul has even greater e-ambitions. It has begun to implement a project called Ubiquitous Seoul - or U-city - which will extend the city's technological reach. Seoul's nearly 4-mile-long (6 km) Cheonggye Stream walkway, which runs through the high-rises of downtown Seoul, is the site of a U-city pilot project. Via their phones and laptops or on touchscreens located in parks and public plazas, citizens can check air-quality or traffic conditions or even reserve a soccer field in a public park. The city also sends out customized text messages. The city's chief...
...right will take you to Porter Square and its 24-hour Shaw’s supermarket, and a little bit further you’ll find Davis Square with its cafes and vintage shops. The “inbound” direction will take you into the depths of downtown Boston and even Quincy, should you ever need to venture so far from Harvard. The inbound Red Line will also take you to South Station, where you can take the Greyhound or suspiciously cheap Fung Wah buses, or transfer to the Silver Line to Logan Airport...
...Orange Line, perhaps the sketchiest of the subway lines, is accessible from the Red Line at Downtown Crossing. There you can shop at the indispensable H&M and Macy’s. One stop more will take you to Chinatown for Dim Sum and Asian supermarkets. The end of the inbound line takes you to Forest Hills, from where you can walk to Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. Check out Haymarket in the outbound direction, where you can buy amazingly cheap produce at the bustling open air market. Also get off there to explore the North End, Boston?...
...course, which animal is most valuable to the downtown farmer depends on whom you ask. "[Rabbits] are the ideal urban farm animal," says Carpenter, because "they can feed almost exclusively on Dumpstered items like lettuce, stale bread, etc." Seattle Tilth's Thornton thinks that ducks are better for gardens than chickens and that they provide tastier eggs. "I think the duck is the future," she says. Game on, chicken lovers...