Edible Schoolyard Coming To PS216 In New York
In a day and age when kids are already being bombarded at schools by unhealthy choices, it's nice too see that at least one school is seeing the importance of exposing kids to the importance of healthy eating and environmental responsibility.
Masdar City Automated Electric ‘Pods’ Now Being Tested
Masdar City's automated Rapid Personal Transport (RPT) 'pods' are no longer fiction as the first prototypes commence testing.
Creative Use Of Unconventional Building Materials
A couple of pretty cool examples of unconventional building materials being used as..well...building materials.
A Tropical Rainforest Grows…In Northern England?
A new rainforest is coming to Northern England...there's an indoor mountain you can ski on in Dubai...what's next? A domed desert at the bottom of the Pacific?
Build Your Own EV With The Trexa Customizable Platform
Trexa is a customizable EV platform which will enable designers and car tinkerers everywhere to build their own personalized electric vehicle.
Saving Detroit By Turning It Back Into Farmland
John Hantz, a wealthy financial investor, believes the key to saving Detroit from utter collapse is taking the land around the city back to what it did best; growing crops.
New Plastic Coating May Eliminate Need For Detergents…Here We Go Again
A new self-sleaning plastic coating may make the need for detergent a thing of the past. But in their zeal to trump its intended benefits and uses, are researchers repeating the mistakes of the past with regards to technological breakthroughs and the unintended consequences that sometimes accompany them?
First Hand Look At The Nissan Leaf EV. Not bad
A first hand take on the new Nissan Leaf EV: The ambiguous all-electric vehicle that everyone wants, but still know very little about (thanks to Nissan).
- A huge hydroelectric dam planned for the Xingu River in the middle of the Amazon has just received government approval in Brazil. As with other countries' governments wanting hydroelectric dams in environmentally sensitive areas (see Three Gorges Dam), the Brazilian government is naturally downplaying the potential for environmental calamities.
- For some inconceivable reason, Dow's styrofoam has earned a cradle-to-cradle silver certification from MDBC despite the fact that it contains persistent organic pollutants. Let's hope this prestigious, and what was once considered rigorous, green certification doesn't go down the 'pay to play' path so many others before it have taken.
- Fears that data on energy consumption could be misused by criminals, police or insurance companies have curtailed the compulsory introduction of the meters in the Netherlands. Precaution or paranoia?
- The IPCC's 2007 report missed out the melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets which would be the key drivers in dramatic sea level rises making a sea level rise of 7ft by 2100 more than likely.
- It still appears that Obama is bobbing and weaving on the issue of mountaintop removal for coal as the EPA continues to issue permits to companies that literally remove mountains for a small percentage of coal.
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