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  • Igloo Made From 300 Refrigerators

    Igloo Made From 300 Refrigerators Springs Up in Germany | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early…

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  • Ford C-MAX Energi Plug-In Hybrid Rocks The Fuel Efficiency

    Ford C-MAX Energi Plug-In Hybrid Rocks The Fuel Efficiency Nino Marchetti, earthtechling.com Ford, already putting up some very impres­sive offi­cial Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency fuel effi­cien­cy num­bers with both its 2013 Fusion Hybrid and C-Max Hybrid, now has anoth­er feath­er to add to the cap in its effort to knock Toy­ota … http://flpbd.it/xhEMj Related articles 2012…

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  • Dirty White Gold: a Film That Exposes Cotton Farming’s Dark Side

    Fund “Dirty White Gold,” a Film That Exposes Cotton Farming’s Dark Side ecouterre.com Photo by Shut­ter­stock Jour­nal­ist Leah Bor­romeo’s documentary-in-the-making, “The Cot­ton Film: Dirty White Gold,” fol­lows the life of cot­ton from seed to store, trac­ing who it touch­es and how their live are effect­ed. The incred­i­ble… http://flpbd.it/5ti7j

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  • Birds with cameras take flight

    Birds with cameras take flight in ‘Winged Planet,’ tonight on the Discovery Channel By Justin Rubio, theverge.com The lat­est entry in the critically-acclaimed Plan­et series from the Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel and the BBC airs tonight at 8:00PM ET. “Winged Plan­et” — like “Blue Plan­et” and “Plan­et Earth” before it — is a nature doc­u­men­tary that uti­lizes……

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  • Late Environmentalist Barry Commoner On How Biology-Based Tech Could Save The Planet

    Late Environmentalist Barry Commoner On How Biology-Based Tech Could Save The Planet By Rose Pastore, popsci.com From the archives: The “Paul Revere of ecology” sounded early warnings about the polluting effects of manmade products in 1972. Barry Com­mon­er, the scientist-activist who found­ed mod­ern ecol­o­gy and helped ban above-ground nuclear test­ing,… http://flpbd.it/rPUAD Related articles Must See…

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  • Daily Infographic: A Mesmerizing Map Of Water Currents On The Great Lakes

    Daily Infographic: A Mesmerizing Map Of Water Currents On The Great Lakes By Emily Elert, popsci.com Researchers at the Great Lakes Envi­ron­men­tal Research Lab­o­ra­to­ry bor­rowed some code from the design­ers who made this incred­i­ble wind map to cre­ate the world’s first beau­ti­ful water cur­rent map. The image above is just a snapshot—ch… http://flpbd.it/RccNm Related articles…

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  • Giant Meditation Chamber Made from Shipping Pallets

    Giant Meditation Chamber Made from Shipping Pallets By Michael Colombo, makezine.com At the same time, the name of the piece, Forêt (trans­lat­ed to “For­est”) harkens to the mate­r­i­al ori­gins of the pal­lets them­selves. As the user sits in the mid­dle of the struc­ture, light pass­es through the slats much like the sun… http://flpbd.it/M7cNm Related articles…

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  • Paul Testa Designs an Earth-Sheltered Home to Meet Passivehaus Standards in the UK

    Paul Testa Designs an Earth-Sheltered Home to Meet Passivehaus Standards in the UK Mark Boyer, inhabitat.com This month, Paul Testa Archi­tec­ture obtained plan­ning approval to build an earth-sheltered home in the Unit­ed King­dom. The Bur­rows is a high­ly sus­tain­able single-family home that will be built into a hill­side in South York­shire. Because… http://flpbd.it/xjzfJ Related articles…

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  • LaunchPad Shipping Container Computer Labs

    LaunchPad Shipping Container Computer Labs Let South African Students Connect With Mentors Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Perkins+Will has part­nered with Infi­nite Fam­i­ly, a U.S.-based non prof­it orga­ni­za­tion, to build ship­ping con­tain­er com­put­er labs in South Africa to help stu­dents con­nect with men­tors. The firm com­plet­ed their first Launch­Pad… http://flpbd.it/hhYBw Related articles Twenty-eight containers transform orphange in…

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  • Terreform Proposes Covering NYC With Vertical Gardens

    Terreform Proposes Covering NYC With Vertical Gardens & Urban Farms to Become Self-Sufficient inhabitat.com In response to glob­al urban pop­u­la­tion, Ter­reform, Inc.* has come up with an inno­v­a­tive way for New York City to deal with the issues that arise from this world wide prob­lem. The plan, called New York City Steady State (NYCSS), calls…

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  • Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk

    Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Stu­dio d’Xavier) Try­ing to think of any rea­son pay­ing more at the pump is a good thing would stump the aver­age con­sumer (thin­ner wal­lets after pay­ing with cash?), but one and pos­si­bly the only good side…

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  • Fisker Automotive to Romney: Who Are You Calling ‘Loser’?

    Fisker Automotive to Romney: Who Are You Calling ‘Loser’? Damon Lavrinc, wired.com Photo: AP Pres­i­den­tial hope­ful Mitt Rom­ney may be a Michigan-bred entre­pre­neur with a suc­cess­ful career in busi­ness, but the man knows lit­tle about the elec­tric vehi­cle sec­tor. Dur­ing his first debate with Pres­i­dent Bar… http://flpbd.it/NRZsD Related articles Why Do Copyright Monopolists Think They…

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