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  • Hurricane Sandy: another climate wake up call

    Sandy Raises Questions About Climate And The Future Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org Sandy Raises Questions About Climate And The Future Fresh Air from WHYY If you ask cli­mate sci­en­tist Radley Hor­ton, it’s dif­fi­cult to say that Hur­ri­cane Sandy was direct­ly caused by cli­mate change, but he sees strong con­nec­tions betw… http://flpbd.it/L0BSs Related articles Connecting…

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  • See what the world will look like without power

    New York City in post-storm darkness: photos by Randy Scott Slavin Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net NYC UNPLUGGED, a series by pho­tog­ra­ph­er Randy Scott Slavin doc­u­ment­ing the dark­ness in New York City after Hur­ri­cane Sandy caused wide­spread power out­ages: New York City is always bright. Street lights, business marquees, ligh… http://flpbd.it/4inHF Related articles A Study of Shadows…

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  • Scott Bernstein: move to the city and start walking

    Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking By Jeff Speck, salon.com Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities — and walking In 2001, Scott Bern­stein, at the Cen­ter for Neigh­bor­hood Tech­nol­o­gy in inner-city Chica­go, pro­duced a set of maps that are still chang­… http://flpbd.it/KtKdq Related articles…

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  • Ikea concrete base lamp hack

    IKEA Hack: How to Make an Industrial Concrete Base Lamp curbly.com When I came across this light­ing project, I did a dou­ble take because I could hard­ly believe it was a DIY. It is so well done, the fin­ished project looked more like some­thing I could buy than some­thing I could make on my own.…

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  • Open structures parts kit lets you make anything from scratch

    An Open-Source Kit Of Parts, For Making Any Gadget From Scratch By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com At the Istanbul Bienal, designers used the OpenStructures system to build toasters, sleds, and vacuum cleaners from scratch. The move towards DIY dig­i­tal fabrication—from Maker­Bot to Fab@Home—is an undoubt­ed­ly great devel­op­ment for… http://flpbd.it/fOuI4 Related articles Dyson dc24 animal compact upright…

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  • Italians now buy more bikes than cars

    The Decline of the Car? Part 1: Italians Now Buying More Bicycles Than Automobiles core77.com Sur­pris­ing news: Italy, home of the mighty Fer­rari and the sprawl­ing Fiat empire, is now a coun­try where peo­ple are buy­ing more bicy­cles than cars. The num­bers are a lit­tle too round (and close) not to take with a grain…

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  • Design and cleantech: a winning combination

    Design and cleantech: a winning combination Posted by Chris Sherwin, guardian.co.uk In his third article on sustainability and design, Chris Sherwin makes the case for using design to help clean and green technologies succeed A few years ago, green start-up Intelligent Energy (IE), the proud owners and developers of a world-cla… http://flpbd.it/ex0Vi Related articles Denmark…

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  • Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Saying Hurricane Sandy Affected Decision

    Awareness of science, environment and climate change is increasingly moving voters towards Obama. Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Saying Hurricane Sandy Affected Decision – NYTimes.com. Related articles Bloomberg’s Obama endorsement is a vote for big government in time of crisis | Ana Marie Cox Bloomberg endorses Obama, citing Sandy and climate change Michael Bloomberg endorses Obama to lead…

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  • Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-USA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing

    Hipster redemption? How local, made-in-USA, artisan-focused entrepreneurs are reviving American manufacturing | MNN – Mother Nature Network mnn.com Photo: ett­labenn/flickr Hip­sters have been mocked every which way; from their pen­chant for skin­ny jeans to their high­brow cof­fee tastes (and low-brow incomes), from their love of vin­tage records to their dis­dain for cor­po­rate chains an… Related…

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  • How Fly Farming May Help More Fish Stay In The Sea

    How Fly Farming May Help More Fish Stay In The Sea Eliza Barclay, npr.org What’s the lowly house fly got to do with the $60 bil­lion fish farm­ing indus­try? Quite a lot, says Jason Drew, a jet-setting British entre­pre­neur who is so enthu­si­as­tic about the poten­tial of flies, he’s just writ­ten a book called T……

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  • Etsy HQ breathing rooms and gross happiness

    Handmade Desks, “Breathing Rooms,” And Gross Happiness: Take A Look Inside Etsy HQ fastcocreate.com Beyond just quirk, crafty marketplace Etsy offers employes a green (B Corp certified) place to work where happiness is measured and learning is encouraged (two words: therapeutic doodling). Seven years into its exis­tence, the online hand­made a… http://flpbd.it/39vka Related articles Crafty…

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  • GMO in my foods: there’s an app for that

    An App To Tell You If There Are Genetically Modified Ingredients In Your Food BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com There are no laws that say companies have to tell you if they’re using genetically modified ingredients. If that doesn’t sit right with you, there’s now an app to help you sort out which foods’ genes have…

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