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Are Solar Chargers Turning Into Flowers? Beautiful iPetals Concept May Set Trend
Images via Petitvention Designers seem to be setting a new trend for solar chargers, turning small scale renewable gadget charging into something resembling a bouquet of flowers. Hot on the heals of the Sunny Flower solar charger concept we showed off in September comes the iPetal, a design strik …
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Hundreds Speak Out In Support of EPA Global Warming Rule
Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (left) testifies at the Arlington EPA hearing as API's Howard Feldman looks on. This week we saw some amazing public action as part of the two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearings on its proposed tailoring rule, which we call the "Big Polluters" ru …
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne Named Greenest City in the U.K.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne has been named the greenest city in the U.K. in a sustainability audit conducted by Forum for the Future. Photo by Draco2008 via Flickr.com. Shrouded in smoke and the center of ship building, Newcastle-upon-Tyne was once a major industrial center. But the city has been transfo …
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NY Event: Get Local! East Village Shopping Guide Launch at Sustainable NYC
Celebrate local shopping in the East Village with the Get Local shopping Guide. Credit: Get Local The East Village Community Coalition is hosting a launch party for the third edition of the Get Local Shopping Guide, celebrating local shops, merchants, and more in New York City's East Village, at …
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Breaking: Hackers Infiltrate World's Leading Climate Research Unit
Image via Menassat The email system of one of the world's leading climate researchers was just reported to be infiltrated by hackers. Protected information and email messages sent from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) began turning up on public we …
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Women and Minorities Getting Left Out of Green Job Market, New Study Finds
Photo via Change If James Brown had been around to witness the rise of the green jobs sector and learned of the news from this recent study, he'd shake his head and say, "It's a man's world. Ow! After all these years and so much progress, even in a sector dedicated towards achieving the noble aim …
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Houses Get Small (Sort Of) In Response to Recession
Wall Street Journal Is it just the economy or is there a real change going on? Michael Phillips writes in the Wall Street Journal about how builders are offering smaller houses than they have in years. The Scarlett O'Hara stairs and two storey halls are out, and the plans are simpler, square-er, …
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London Restoring Water Fountains, Giving Citizens Free Drinking Water
Photo via Maurice When did water fountains become more of a novelty than an expectation in urban areas? And when did their restoration become news? It seems to say something about the state of free clean drinking water in cities - perhaps we've realized we've gone too far towards bottled water an …
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Supermarket Launches City-Wide Electric Vehicle Charging
Image credit: Webecoist From turning waste food into energy to delivering food by barge, UK supermarket Sainsbury's has been exploring alternative energy and transportation for some time. They even recently unveiled "people-powered" checkouts, though on closer inspection they appeared to be gasol …
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The Controversial Environmental Artwork of Christo and Jean-Claude (Slideshow)
Wrapped government buildings and surrounded islands, endless fences and saffron gates: This is the work of Christo and Jean-Claude. Famous for their large-scale installations, the couple has drawn controversy throughout their career, but the goal, but simply, has always been to make people happy wit …
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Skip The Spray-on Sunscreen? Widely Used Nanoparticles Could Cause Cancer: Study
Photo: Getty Images It's a fact of life that nanoparticles are everywhere: from sunscreen to underwear to performance wear - they are an invisible part of everyday life. Nanotechnology has made some promising inroads, but could these undetectable bits of material be harmful to our health? Recent s …
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New TV Ad Shows Polar Bears Falling to Gruesome Deaths (Video)
Image via the Guardian An ad by Plane Stupid, an anti-airplane pollution advocacy group, is stirring some serious controversy in the UK and around the blogosphere. In a graphic TV ad designed to reveal the massive emissions that even short flights produce, CGI polar bears fall from the sky to blo …
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Method Commercial Turns Cleaners Dirty with Disturbingly Funny Shiny Suds (Video)
Screenshot via peopleagainstdirty In so many cleaner commercials, the happy housewife works alongside singing, scrubbing bubbles that show how cheerfully the cleaner can battle soap scum, germs, and whatever other grime is building up in your bathrooms. However, what happens after the singing sto …
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The Week in Pictures: Rot-Proof Apple, Surprises at GreenBuild, Bacteria Lights Up Landmines, and M …
From the news that scientists have created a bacteria that lights up around landmines to the development of a rot-proof apple--that stays fresh for 4 months--a lot happened this week in green. A new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) shows that putting money into protec …
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Who Is Gonna Pay For My e-Waste?? Not Me!
Photo via shooting brooklyn According to a new study by Pike Research, 76% of consumers are aware that the secret ingredient for reducing e-waste is proper recycling. Rejoice! 76% of consumers can see the obvious!! Now the only trick to getting more of those consumers - indeed everyone - to act o …
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Tech Awards 2009 Recognizes Cows to Kilowatts as Winning Eco Project
Photo via foxypar4 Last night the Tech Awards kicked off in San Jose, California, honoring some incredible innovation happening across several categories, including the environment, education, health, biosciences and more. The competition in the environment section was tough, with GRUPEDSAC, a pr …
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Can Turkey Break the Copenhagen Deadlock?
Turkey is being suggested as a "bridge between East and West" on climate change too. Photo of the Bosphorus Bridge spanning Europe and Asia by Jennifer Hattam. As a city that literally straddles Europe and Asia, Istanbul -- and, by extension, Turkey -- has been endlessly described as a "bridge" b …
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Out to Sea: Swimming the English Channel for a Cause
Credit: freefoto.com In the days before Big Brother, children used to dream of being famous for doing something. I wanted to be an archaeologist when I grew up. On horseback. That is, until I discovered those particular combination of skills didn't constitute a recognized job description -- not s …
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Witold Rybczynski On The Four Paradigms of American Cities
Bettina B. Cenerelli, Trudeau Foundation Witold Rybczynski could be described as a public intellectual, a prolific writer of accessible books about houses, cities and urban design. He opened the Trudeau Foundation's conference Cities and the Public Sphere: Rethinking the Urban Commons. with the r …
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It's Been Proven: Women are Greener Than Men (In Some Countries)
Image from stephaniehern.wordpress.com The good news is that women in industrialised countries are greener than men. A new study from the United Nations confirms that we have a lower carbon footprint and are better for the world's future health. Where to start, let me count the ways... Wom …
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