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- What is the Definition of Good Green Design?
- Floating Pool Filters Polluted Rivers
- Heroes of the Era of Antarctic Exploration
- Resilient Business is Better Than Green
- Examples of Sony's Mantra, "More With Less"
- Connected Home a Popular Theme at CES
- Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks
- Bee Deaths Linked to Seed Insecticide
Glowing Artichoke Lamps Made From Recycled Books
These beautiful, soft-lit lamps are made out of recycled paper materials -- sending out both "ruffled, feminine" and "hip and modern" vibes.
Business
Green Business is Good. Resilient Business is Better.
Green business tends to focus on cutting carbon in the cheapest way possible. But what good will that do if our system starts unravelling?
- Leaked Rio+20 Document Has Lots To Like, With One Glaring Shortcoming
- Who Cares How Much Green House Gases Are Emitted By Big Factories and Power Plants?
- Which Political Convention Will Be 'Occupied?'
- Resilience Favors Simplicity. But That Doesn't Have to Mean Crunchiness.
- Resilience Has Not Been Lost (It's Been Willfully Ignored)
- Is Florida Privatizing Its Public Water Resources?
- Why Free Energy Would Be a Very, Very Bad Thing
- US Extends Moratorium on New Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon
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CES 2012: Extra-Rugged iPhone Case
This case stands out from the crowd, literally, with the flip of the ...
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2013 Honda Accord Plug-in Hybrid Coming
At the Detroit Auto Show, Honda showed off its newest plug-in hybrid.
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200-Story Prefab Built in 2 Months
This new way of building is amazingly fast, and amazingly green.
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Design
What is the Definition of Good Green Design? Two Brave Little Toasters Demonstrate Two Different Approaches
Adi Zaffran reinvents a toaster out of simple, local materials. Thomas Thwaites tried to build the real thing. Which approach is better?
- 30 Story Hotel Completely Built and Finished in Fifteen Days, on New Years Eve (Amazing Video)
- 200-Storey Prefab For 100,000 People Can Be Built in 2 Months
- Transformer Furniture For The 1%: Amazing Cantilevered Bed Drops Down From Ceiling
- Built on Stilts: Tom Kundig's Sol Duc Cabin
- Mind-blowing Digital 3D Printing of Super-Green Houses is Happening Now
- Artist Carves Vintage Books Into Astoundingly Intricate 3D Sculptures (Photos)
- Industrial Piping, Recycled Into One of a Kind Shelving
- Industrial Piping, Recycled Into One of a Kind Shelving
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Living
- The Week in Pictures: The Best of the 2012 Detroit Motor Show, No Pants Subway Ride, and More
- 1912's Race to the South Pole: The Heroes of the Great Era of Antarctic Exploration
- 10 Breathtaking Time-Lapse Videos Showcasing Nature as You've Never Seen it Before
- Photos of Ill-Fated Antarctica Explorer Robert Scott's Last Journey on View in London
- Biking + Farmer's Market = Velo Fare Cookbook (Recipe)
- Semi-Veganism is Nonsense (But It's Still a Good Idea)
- Weekday Vegetarian Recipe: Baked Polenta
- Can We All Join Grandmother Heidemarie Schwermer in Living Without Money?
- 9 Eco Travel Destinations on the Hot List for 2012
Transportation
Electric Car Battery Prices on Track to Drop 70% by 2015, Says Energy Secretary
Steven Chu shared the Department of Energy's estimates on how fast electric car battery technology will progress over the next decade.
- 22-Year-Old Frank Zappa Teaches How to Play the Bicycle (Video)
- Highlights from the 2012 Detroit Auto Show
- 2012 Sonata Hybrid Gets 'Lifetime Battery Replacement Guarantee' from Hyundai
- The Prius C is Coming to U.S. this Spring, Priced Below $19,000
- 2013 Honda Accord to be Available in Plug-in Hybrid Model
- Toyota Yaris Hybrid Preview
- Toyota Unveils NS4 Plug-in Hybrid Concept, Possible Global Production in 2015
- 2013 VW Jetta Hybrid Debuts at Detroit Auto Show (Lithium-ion Battery, 45 MPG, Turbocharged)
- Ford Unveils New 2013 Fusion Hybrid (lithium-ion, 47 MPG) and Plug-In Fusion Energi (100+ MPGe)
Technology
CES 2012: Cubify Brings 3D Printing To Your Livingroom, Set To Win Best of CES
3D printing is all the rage right now among designers as a way to minimize waste for prototypes. Cubify capitalizes on this to bring 3D printing to kids and budding designers alike.
- CES 2012: OLED TVs, Transparent TVs and Home Energy Management from Samsung
- CES 2012: 3 Examples of Sony's Mantra, "Do More With Less"
- CES 2012: The Connected Home Leads As Popular Theme in Consumer Electronics
- CES 2012: 2nd Solutions Spares Corporate Cell Phones from Certain Death
- CES 2012: Monster Partners with People Power for Home Energy Use App for iPhone, Android
- CES 2012: Solowheel Working To Reinvent Cycling -- Unicycling, That Is
- CES 2012: Eton's Rukus Boombox Uses Solar To Keep Your Music Blaring
Science
Crazy Video: The Gnarliest Waves Ever Surfed
If you didn't respect the ocean before, this will tell you why you should.
- Help the EPA Document the 'State of the Environment'
- Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks
- Bee Deaths Linked to Seed Insecticide Exposure
- Africa's Rainforests May Be More Resilient To Climate Change Than Amazon's
- Are Islam and Permaculture a Match Made in Heaven?
- Climate News Recap: China Might Not Have Carbon Tax After All, Profound Changes in Rocky Mountains' Ecosystems, More
- GOP Candidates Debate Themselves on Climate Change (Video)
- Monkeys Devise a Tool to Break Out of Zoo in Brazil
Energy
Congress Has a Backup Plan for Approving Keystone XL Pipeline
If Republicans in Congress get their way, it won't matter what President Obama decides about the Keystone XL pipeline next month.
- Energy News Recap: China May Soon Burn Half of All World's Coal, SuperFracking, More...
- Why Sri Lanka Will Be Hit Hardest By Iranian Oil Supply Disruption
- IKEA's Solar Efforts to Cover Nearly 85% of US Stores
- Why Modern Life Makes Us Vulnerable
- Scoring One for Clean Energy on College Campuses
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls for Fossil Fuels Bonanza, Catastrophic Global Warming
- Map Reveals the Nation's Biggest Contributors to Climate Change
- Wyoming to Get North America's Biggest Wind Farm (3000 MW)
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