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  • How to reduce household air pollutants

    Your House Is Killing You. Here’s How To Stop It By Katherine Bagley, popsci.com A roundup of the high- and low-tech solutions to mitigate dangerous concentrations of airborne chemicals at home Your comfy couch. The wood­en chairs in your kitchen. The paint you spent months pick­ing out. Clean­ing sup­plies piled under the… http://flpbd.it/bmZum Related articles…

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  • Arduino: How To Smell Pollutants

    by liseman, instructables.com This Instructable explains how to use a gas sen­sor with your Arduino. This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you pro­gram respons­es to) over­all gas lev­els for a vari­ety of nas­ties, includ­ing ethanol, methane, formalde­hyde, and a bunch o… http://flpbd.it/EypGF How To Smell Pollutants Related articles Arduino ADK LED Lighting (instructables.com) Shrunk…

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  • Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing

    By DAVID STREITFELD, nytimes.com Tim Fer­riss’ “4-Hour Chef” is the first big book to be pub­lished by Ama­zon. With the tra­di­tion­al book­selling out­lets unwill­ing to stock or pub­li­cize the title, pub­lish­er and author are pulling out all the stops to move copies and show… http://flpbd.it/bCv0s Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing Related articles…

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  • The Fab Acad­e­my is a six-month long dig­i­tal fab­ri­ca­tion pro­gram

    Providence, RI Fab Academy Now Accepting Applications for 2013 By Brian Jepson, makezine.com The Fab Acad­e­my is a six-month long dig­i­tal fab­ri­ca­tion pro­gram direct­ed by MIT’s Neil Ger­shen­feld, and based on his rapid pro­to­typ­ing course How to Make (Almost) Any­thing. The Fab Acad­e­my start­ed as an MIT out­reach pro­gram, an… http://flpbd.it/dNjyn Related articles Congratulations, Your…

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  • Tiny dome home

    http://flpbd.it/4WFN0 Related articles Johns Hopkins graduate killed in bomb blast in Afghanistan – Baltimore Sun (baltimoresun.com) Kerry presses Israel and Palestinians for concessions to pave way for peace talks – Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)

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  • Boston natural gas leaks

    Boston has a few thousand gas leaks it shouldn’t worry about pbgrist, grist.org Just FYI, Bostonon­i­an­ites, there’s a nat­ur­al gas leak under your city. Not a big deal. It’s a lit­tle one. Lit­tle small lit­tle nat­ur­al gas leak. And a tiny bit of addi­tion­al bad news — there are also over 3,300 other such leaks.…

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  • Opower energy management software

    Major Utilities Adopt Opower’s New Energy Engagement Platform Beth Buczynski, earthtechling.com Until more nation­al gov­ern­ments adopt aggres­sive strate­gies to speed clean ener­gy devel­op­ment, con­ser­va­tion remains the sim­plest and most effec­tive car­bon reduc­tion tac­tic. The ques­tion that remains is how? Util­i­ties and… http://flpbd.it/WVHAu Related articles Opower Voted Best Potential Investment at Conference (blogs.wsj.com) A Little Guilt,…

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  • Green peace analyzes clothing brand safety

    Greenpeace Exposes Toxic Chemicals in Zara, Other Fast-Fashion Brands ecouterre.com How toxic are your threads? If you’re a fan of cheap, dis­pos­able fash­ion, the answer isn’t one you’re going to like. A new inves­ti­ga­tion com­mis­sioned by Green­peace found residues of hormone-disrupting and cancer-causing chem­i­cals in… http://flpbd.it/34Ylh Related articles Fast Fashion and Its Ugly Step Sister,…

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  • Drop Eco hotel bio designed lodging

    DROP eco-hotel in-tenta.com DROP microar­chi­tec­ture is a remov­able eco-hotel unit inspired by organ­ic shapes of nature. Pro­duced and com­mer­cial­ized by URBAN SQUARE. Si quieres leer en castel­lano acer­ca de DROP eco-hotel clica aquí. DROP http://flpbd.it/rgWm7 Related articles Arbol de Fuego eco hotel in El Salvador (mnn.com) Let islanders return, says former minister (thetimes.co.uk) Green Stars:…

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  • Sumaya cedar clad mobile house

    Sumaya: An Elegant Hand-Crafted Mobile Home Clad in Cedar Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Phil Duloy has built one of the most beau­ti­ful mobile homes we have ever seen. The “Sumaya” is a sus­tain­able, energy-efficient rolling house wrapped in cedar. Phil was inspired to build the Sumaya for his fam­i­ly after liv­ing in a con­vert­e… http://flpbd.it/k0gN6

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  • Andrew Hyde only owns 15 things

    Meet the Guy Who Owns Only 15 Things Yuka Yoneda, ecouterre.com If you’re think­ing of adopt­ing a more min­i­mal­ist lifestyle for 2012, take a page from the play­book of Andrew Hyde, an itin­er­ant blogger-cum-interface design­er who owns only 15 items. Cur­rent­ly resid­ing in New York City—he’s lived… http://flpbd.it/JE2Br Related articles Minimizing My Life (undeniableruth.com) 15…

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  • Glowing fish sculptures from recycled bottles

    Gigantic Glowing Fish Sculptures Made From Recycled Bottles Rise From Rio Beach | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in…

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