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  • Why the world needs a renaissance of small farming

    Why the world needs a renaissance of small farming Colin Tudge, guardian.co.uk The greed for profit is ruining agriculture – and the world – but the trend for local shops and farmers’ markets offers real hope British farmers can’t produce pigs as cheaply as the Poles, or cattle feed as cheaply as the Brazilians, or…

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  • How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag

    How Lobster-Inspired Winglets Reduce Drag, Increase Fuel Efficiency Alexander George, wired.com Photo: GasPods Indus­tri­al design­er and under­wa­ter pho­tog­ra­ph­er Bob Evans got the inspi­ra­tion for GasPods from the bumps he observed on lob­sters’ backs. It seems coun­ter­in­tu­itive, but pro­tru­sions on an already-streamlined… http://flpbd.it/BuaDx Related articles Food Glorious Food: Burger & Lobster (onefinestay.com) Apparently This Matters: Lobster…

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  • re:char | shop-in-a-box

    re:char | shop-in-a-box re-char.com shop-in-a-box- an off-grid, open-source fac­to­ry built from a 20’ ship­ping con­tain­er. Rapid­ly deploy­able to any­where in the world, shop-in-a-box enables rapid pro­to­typ­ing and small-run man­u­fac­tur­ing in a tiny but effec­tive… http://flpbd.it/6mOdw Related articles Power4Patriots Responds to Super Bowl XLVII Power Outage by Reminding Homeowners of Importance of Solar and Wind Energy…

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  • More Blueprints Emerge Of Apple Campus 2

    More Blueprints Emerge Of Apple Campus 2, Show Futuristic, Spaceship Like Design Henry Taylor-Gill, mactrast.com Some pret­ty awe­some images have recent­ly leaked (via 9to5Mac) of what Apple’s Cam­pus 2 will look like, and let’s just say that it will be unlike any other HQ in the world. The blue­prints show what looks like a giant…

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  • Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health

    Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health David Schultz, npr.org Liv­ing next to a noisy high­way can be annoy­ing. The rack­et can also dis­rupt your sleep. Too many bad nights’ sleep can raise the risk of heart attack, high blood pres­sure and other ail­ments. Curi­ous researchers with the Cen­ters for… http://flpbd.it/tUoKj Related articles Prevent…

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  • Boosted Board electric longboard

    Boosted Board electric longboard is lightweight enough to carry, powerful enough to haul riders uphill Michael Gorman, engadget.com Boost­ed Board isn’t the first pow­ered skate­board to grace these pages, but it is the light­est. In its cur­rent pro­to­type form, it weighs just 12 pounds, thanks to a high-end Loaded Van­guard long­board, 2,000W brush­less elec­tric motor,…

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  • Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science

    Mitt Romney: I believe in basic science, and by “basic science” I mean “cold fusion” Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I’m not entire­ly sure what to say about this excerpt from a Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er inter­view other than, “*head­desk*”. Mitt Romney: I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of…

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  • Towards a New Arcadia

    Towards a New Arcadia: Ton Matton on a Simpler Kind of Life core77.com It’s that time of year again: when savvy city­d­wellers return to the com­fort and con­ve­nience of their apart­ments and pick up where they left off before the peren­ni­al August slump. (I real­ize that not all of us—myself includ­ed—can afford t… http://flpbd.it/1zN8F

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  • Food Waste Is Overwhelming

    Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It April Fulton, npr.org The food world is buzzing today about the lat­est news on just how often we waste per­fect­ly good food. And we admit, the sta­tis­tics are pret­ty depress­ing. About 40 per­cent of food in the Unit­ed States today goes uneat­en.…

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  • PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom

    PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom-Up fastcocreate.com Amsterdam festival addresses the cultural and business impact of a networked world. We are offi­cial­ly in the age of democ­ra­tized every­thing. Entrenched sys­tems have been buck­ling under the dis­rup­tive pres­sure of par­tic­i­pa­tion and… http://flpbd.it/1C6IQ Related articles The best electro festivals in The Netherlands? (londonoa.com)…

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  • Washington, District Of Cycling

    Washington, District Of Cycling Emily Badger, fastcompany.com Few modes of trans­porta­tion are more basic than the hum­ble bike. Heck, peo­ple have been strad­dling them for some 200 years, far longer than we’ve been mov­ing about town in street­cars, sub­ways, or our own cars. And so this seems a bit… http://flpbd.it/Nytg8 Related articles Top reasons to…

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  • Tiny House Arc Prefab Home is Now Available for Order

    Bellomo Architects’ Tiny House Arc Prefab Home is Now Available for Order | 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:…

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