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  • New Electric Touring Trike From Germany

    New Electric Touring Trike From Germany Very Speedy Nino Marchetti, earthtechling.com Elec­tric bicy­cles are quite com­mon these days. Elec­tric trikes though? Not quite as much. It is a cat­e­go­ry though see­ing some activ­i­ty, such as the recent­ly unveiled Scor­pi­on fs 26 S-Ped­elec which, quite frankly, looks to be an… http://flpbd.it/sqnfU Related articles Scuddy, the Electric Trike…

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  • Germany Sets New Solar Record

    Germany Sets New Solar Record By Meeting Nearly Half of Country’s Weekend Power Demand | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Diane Pham 5 Tips to Cut Your Electricity Bill With Energy Efficiency Expert David Johnston Cutting back on your energy usage is one of the best ways to bring down your…

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  • Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home

    Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home Sami Grover Design / Green Architecture October 19, 2012, treehugger.com Next time you hear some­one com­plain­ing about today’s youth, or moan­ing about a cul­ture of enti­tle­ment, tell them the story of Austin Hay. We already post­ed one video of Austin Hay’s project to build a tiny house on…

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  • Zendome: Gorgeous Geodesic Domes

    Zendome: Gorgeous Geodesic Domes Create Flexible Spaces | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Diane Pham 5 Tips to Cut Your Electricity Bill With Energy Efficiency Expert David Johnston Cutting back on your energy usage is one of the best ways to bring down your electricity bill. But did you know that…

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  • Marijuana Majority Website

    Marijuana Majority Website Highlights Celebs And Tech Leaders Who Support Pot Legalization Josh Constine, techcrunch.com Suc­cess­ful peo­ple, not just “lazy ston­ers”, want pot laws to change. That’s the mes­sage of new web­site Mar­i­jua­na Major­i­ty, which dis­plays over 600 influ­encers includ­ing Peter Thiel, Sean Park­er, Paul Bucheit, and Dustin Moskovitz… http://flpbd.it/bDBXj Related articles Idaho braces for…

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  • Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder

    By Mark Frauenfelder, makezine.com This sum­mer the folks who pro­duce Dark Rye, the online mag­a­zine for Whole Foods Mar­kets, came to my house in Los Ange­les, and shot a video pro­file of my daugh­ters and me work­ing on dif­fer­ent projects. We made a gui­tar out of a metal… http://flpbd.it/MGnTr Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE…

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  • How Facebook Photos Go Viral

    Daily Infographic: How Facebook Photos Go Viral By Emily Elert, popsci.com George Takei—an actor some of you may rec­og­nize from the orig­i­nal Star Trek series, has a knack for post­ing viral pho­tos on Face­book. Recent­ly, the social media giant asked Sta­men, a San Fran­cis­co design firm, to cre­ate a… http://flpbd.it/gbz2V Related articles 8 Steps to…

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  • Giant 3-D Printing Factory Opens In New York

    Giant 3-D Printing Factory Opens In New York City By Dave Mosher, popsci.com Shapeways, an online 3-D printing company, opened an enormous “Factory of the Future” in Queens, New York that could house 50 industrial printers and churn out millions of consumer-designed products a year. The world’s biggest 3-D print­ing… http://flpbd.it/vyKIx Related articles Man sends…

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  • If Everyone Lived Like An American

    Daily Infographic: If Everyone Lived Like An American, How Many Earths Would We Need? By Emily Elert, popsci.com Hint: It’s a good thing not everyone lives like an American. You’re prob­a­bly already aware that Amer­i­cans con­sume a dis­pro­por­tion­al amount of the world’s stuff. You may even have bumped into some of the sta­tis­tics: We make…

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  • Interactive Fractal Tree of Life

    Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth. From pro­to­zoans to peo­ple, there is a lot of life on this plan­et, and it’s all con­nect­ed to a com­mon ances­tor from which every­thing…

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  • Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village

    Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village? By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com Alpha One Labs co-founder Sean Auri­ti and a group of like-minded hack­ers have launched a cam­paign to build Hack­ert0wn, a Brook­lyn hack­er­space the likes of which the world has never seen. As planned, Hack­ert0wn will be an entire hack­er… http://flpbd.it/8muih Related articles Twitter Account of…

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  • 3rd Ward: Our Creative Community

    (via About Us – Our Creative Community – Brooklyn, NY – 3rd Ward) Related articles ♥ / 3rd Ward (swiss-miss.com) Q&A: Jason Goodman, CEO, 3rd Ward (smartplanet.com) 3rd Ward – Brooklyn, NY, Full time, remote, H1B (news.ycombinator.com) For the Love of Art: A Valentine’s Day Networking Event in NYC (fracturedatlas.org) “Creating Hipsturbia”: Is Gentrification Pushing…

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