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  • Patagonia dives into plant based performance wear

    Patagonia’s New Wet Suit is Made from Plants ecouterre.com Did you ever think you’d be wear­ing plants while hang­ing ten? Out­door adven­tur­ist brand Patag­o­nia has been mak­ing strides with their exper­i­men­ta­tion with eco-friendly wet­suits. They’re lat­est line bor­rows from the plant world-… http://flip.it/hmSeJ Related articles A Study: Patagonia Outerwear (northofsoutheast.wordpress.com) Earthwatericeglacier4panoramaPeritoMorenoPatagoniaArgentina (fractalsteve.wordpress.com) Make Your Own…

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  • Green tech tips for saving on your heating bill

    7 Winter Home Improvement Tips to Save You Money and Energy In the Cold Season | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Mark Boyer says:, inhabitat.com This year’s record break­ing sum­mer high tem­per­a­tures and gen­er­al wor­ri­some warm­ing trend don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mean that the com­ing win­ter will be a walk in the park.…

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  • Designer bacteria decode your health via your poo

    E. chromi Designer Bacteria Will Color Your Poo According to Your Illness | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building natural run says:, inhabitat.com E. chro­mi is an exper­i­men­tal col­lab­o­ra­tion between design­ers and sci­en­tists work­ing in the field of syn­thet­ic biol­o­gy. Royal Col­lege of Art grad­u­ates’ James King and Daisy Gins­berg, togeth­er with…

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  • Drug companies return to nutritional supplements for innovation

    (via Consumer, Drug Firms Vie in Vitamins – WSJ.com) Related articles We mistook drugs for food supplements: Ram Singh (thehindu.com) Myths In The Pricing Of New Drugs (forbes.com) Decreasing Diabetes Risk In Obese Children And Adolescents Through Vitamin D Supplementation (medicalnewstoday.com)

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  • Pier 57 “Incubox” Shipping Container Mall Set to Open Next April in NYC Youngwoo Pier57

    inhabitat.com Start­ing in April, sixty ship­ping con­tain­er shops will open their doors on the for­mer ship­ping indus­try pier under the uni­fied name “Incubox”. For the first two years of oper­a­tion (basi­cal­ly until the entire pier makeover is com­plete)… http://flip.it/hF0GX Pier 57 “Incubox” Shipping Container Mall Set to Open Next April in NYC Youngwoo Pier57

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  • Coco mat Eco mattress: get a sustainable night’s sleep

    Get a Sustainable Night’s Sleep On an Ultra-Comfy, Uber-Cozy Coco-Mat Mattress | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Yuka Yoneda says:, inhabitat.com The aver­age per­son sleeps around eight hours a night — which amounts to a third of your life spent in bed. But despite the amount of time that we find…

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  • Green holiday gift guide

    Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide inhabitat.com http://flip.it/M3Ixh Related articles Inhabitat’s Week in Green: stair-climbing vacuum cleaner, carbon dioxide diapers and a real 3D-printed face (engadget.com)

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  • Egg shape office of the future

    Egg-Shaped Mobile House Extension is No Ordinary Blob | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building caeman says:, inhabitat.com Believe it or not, this adorable egg-shaped “blob” is actu­al­ly a house! Orig­i­nal­ly built as a home office exten­sion for Xfac­tor Agen­cies, the unique design was vehe­ment­ly opposed by Bel­gian author­i­ties. In order to…

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  • Green peace compels Mango, Esprit to clean up their supply chains

    Mango, Esprit Pledge to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals From Supply Chains by 2020, Thanks to Greenpeace Campaign ecouterre.com Green­peace’s “Detox” cam­paign is hav­ing a ban­ner month. Not only did the envi­ron­men­tal non­prof­it con­vince Zara, the world’s No. 1 appar­el retail­er, to com­mit to elim­i­nat­ing haz­ardous chem­i­cals from its sup­ply chain by 2020, but… http://flip.it/L9zUA Related articles…

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  • Bio mimicry and Steve Jobs last remarks

    How Can Designers and Architects Use Biomimicry to Stay on the Cutting Edge of Innovation? | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Diane Pham says:, inhabitat.com Short­ly before his death in 2011, Steve Jobs said, “I think the biggest inno­va­tions of the 21st cen­tu­ry will be at the inter­sec­tion of biol­o­gy and…

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  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha Climate Talks

    AP, huffingtonpost.com DOHA, Qatar — Has­san al-Kubaisi con­sid­ers it a gift from above that dri­vers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gal­lon at the pump. “Thank God that our coun­try is an oil pro­duc­er and the price of gaso­line is one of the… Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha…

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  • Soda stream disrupts beverage industry waste

    SodaStream’s Banned Ad Helps Home Carbonation Company Hit It Big Rachel Tepper, huffingtonpost.com An ad for SodaS­tream, a home car­bon­a­tion prod­uct, has been mak­ing the rounds world­wide. In it, bot­tles of soda seem to com­bust spon­ta­neous­ly every time some­one uses the SodaS­tream else­where in the world. The take­away: why pay for… http://flip.it/BgTFD Related articles 3…

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