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  • Rupert Murdoch’s perceptions about climate

    Rupert Murdoch still stupid about climate, now thinks pollution is good for trees By Sarah Miller, grist.org Close your eyes and imag­ine a world with­out Rupert Mur­doch. Ahh­h­h­h­h­hh. OK, you can open your eyes now. Sorry. Mur­doch still exists. He owns every­thing. And he still doesn’t know dick about cli­mate sci­ence. In fact, he now…

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  • Only vegetarians will be allowed to go to Mars

    Only vegetarians will be allowed to go to Mars By Jess Zimmerman, grist.org If you want to be in the first wave of Mars colonists, your best bet is to buddy up to Elon Musk — cofounder of Pay­Pal, CEO of Tesla Motors, and all-around smartest guy in the room regard­less of the room. He…

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  • Apple is moving into the wind energy business

    Apple is moving into the wind energy business By Sarah Miller, grist.org If you are sick of Apple rul­ing at every­thing, you can stop read­ing now. But if you’d like to hear about how they’re work­ing to har­ness one of nature’s clean­est, most plen­ti­ful resources, con­tin­ue. Because Apple is now branch­ing out fro… RT @grist:…

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  • Whole Foods CEO John Mackey perceptions about climate

    Whole Foods CEO John Mackey knows what’s best for you, and fighting climate change ain’t it By Philip Bump, grist.org You’d think that by now John Mack­ey would have learned to shut up. The Whole Foods CEO and cofounder would no doubt be incensed at my say­ing so, of course, since — in clas­sic hyper-entitled,…

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  • The 14 fossil-fuel projects poised to mess up the climate

    The 14 fossil-fuel projects poised to f*ck up the climate By David Roberts, grist.org In a just­ly famous Rolling Stone piece, Bill McK­ibben pop­u­lar­ized the notion of “Glob­al Warm­ing’s Ter­ri­fy­ing New Math.” We have a “car­bon budget,” between now and 2050, of rough­ly 565 giga­tons of car­bon diox­ide. If we emit mo… RT @grist: Most…

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  • Gost Barefoots get medieval

    Gost Barefoots get medieval with chainmail barefoot shoes C.C. Weiss, gizmag.com At times, the barefoot shoe movement has played out like an all-out unleashing of designers’ unbridled creativity. We’ve seen foam feet, ruggedized socks, foot condoms, half shoes and every other type of foot-suit imaginable. Now we add one that g… Gost Barefoots get medieval…

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  • Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room

    Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room – Images gizmag.com Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room – Images http://flip.it/YoSlL http://flip.it/SxMah Related articles Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room (gizmag.com) Curbed Maps: Homes With Hot Tubs And Saunas Keep…

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  • Honda presents its new Urban SUV Concept

    Honda presents its new Urban SUV Concept Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com Honda’s CR-V compact SUV is going to be getting a baby brother. The automaker had previously provided some teaser images of the vehicle, but officially unveiled it yesterday at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit… Conti… Honda presents its new Urban SUV…

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  • Flexi-legged Shelter

    Flexi-legged Shelter can be built from disaster scrap James Holloway, gizmag.com With its modestly named Shelter, architecture firm Carter Williamson has thrown its hat into the disaster response emergency housing ring. Here, the emphasis appears to be on flexibility, Shelter having been designed for easy transportation and ra… Flexi-legged Shelter can be built from disaster…

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  • AbleNook portable dwelling

    AbleNook portable dwelling assembles in two hours Bridget Borgobello, gizmag.com A few years back, young architects Sean Verdecia and Jason Ross put their heads together to come up with a cheap, flexible and mobile emergency housing system that would provide families with dignity and privacy during a natural disaster. The… AbleNook portable dwelling assembles in…

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  • A hands-on demo with Node

    A hands-on demo with Node, the ultimate sensor device (video) — Tech News and Analysis By Janko Roettgers, gigaom.com Summary: It’s a color sensor, a weather station, a gas leak detector, a thermometer for everything around you, and so much more: Check out Node, the ultimate sensor device. RT @gigaom: A hands-on demo with Node,…

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  • Zuvo Water’s Stratus cleans your H2O with WiFi filters, cloud-connected app

    Zuvo Water’s Stratus cleans your H2O with WiFi filters, cloud-connected app Nicole Lee, engadget.com Few of us are for­tu­nate enough to enjoy clean munic­i­pal tap water — the rest have to make do with clunky bacteria-riddled fil­ters and waste­ful bot­tled H2O. Enter Zuvo Water, which has hopped on Indiegogo to fund its elab­o­rate and… RT…

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