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  • Cocoon Tree: A Lightweight, Spherical Treehouse for Sustainable Living

    Lidija Grozdanic, inhabitat.com Read the rest of Cocoon Tree: A Light­weight, Spher­i­cal Tree­house for Sus­tain­able Liv­ing http://flpbd.it/dw1zk Cocoon Tree: A Lightweight, Spherical Treehouse for Sustainable Living Related articles Innovative Upcycling (creativefolkdesign.wordpress.com) Stilts: Inhabitat Monkeys Around in Sustainable Kenyan Treehouses (inhabitat.com) Cocoon Tree Tent (werd.com)

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  • The Farmery is a Farm and Market Set in Four Recycled Shipping Containers in North Carolina

    The Farmery is a Farm and Market Set in Four Recycled Shipping Containers in North Carolina Tafline Laylin, inhabitat.com The Famery has suc­cess­ful­ly raised $25,000 on Kick­starter to make this project a real­i­ty, so if you live in Raleigh, you’re in for a spe­cial treat. So far they have devel­oped two pro­to­types along with a…

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  • Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs

    Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Ben­son­wood’s Unity Homes fea­tures four dis­tinct home styles that are 2 to 4 bed­rooms and range in size from 1,113 to 2,452 sq ft. The home styles are called the Tradd (a clas­sic Tall Cape), Xyla (Amer­i­can Bun­ga­low), Värm (Swedish… http://flpbd.it/xGx3f Related articles Sunmodo…

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  • Super Tiny Whittled Down Caravan Home Comes with a Cat Observation Deck

    Super Tiny Whittled Down Caravan Home Comes with a Cat Observation Deck inhabitat.com We saw an array of amaz­ing home-made things at this year’s Maker Faire NYC, but one of the most impres­sive by far was the Whit­tled Down Car­a­van, a super tiny home on wheels. Built from scratch on top of a 4’ x…

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  • Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox

    Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox is a Tiny, Movable 3-Story Vertical Home Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Han Slawik based his Home­box on the ship­ping con­tain­er model for its trans­port capa­bil­i­ties, uni­ver­sal dimen­sions and use­ful­ness. But at the same time, wear, repair and main­te­nance of steel mate­ri­als is cost­ly, not to men­tion… http://flpbd.it/cSdov Related articles Starbucks Opens Drive-Thru Made…

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  • New Electric Touring Trike From Germany

    New Electric Touring Trike From Germany Very Speedy Nino Marchetti, earthtechling.com Elec­tric bicy­cles are quite com­mon these days. Elec­tric trikes though? Not quite as much. It is a cat­e­go­ry though see­ing some activ­i­ty, such as the recent­ly unveiled Scor­pi­on fs 26 S-Ped­elec which, quite frankly, looks to be an… http://flpbd.it/sqnfU Related articles Scuddy, the Electric Trike…

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  • Germany Sets New Solar Record

    Germany Sets New Solar Record By Meeting Nearly Half of Country’s Weekend Power Demand | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Diane Pham 5 Tips to Cut Your Electricity Bill With Energy Efficiency Expert David Johnston Cutting back on your energy usage is one of the best ways to bring down your…

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  • Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home

    Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home Sami Grover Design / Green Architecture October 19, 2012, treehugger.com Next time you hear some­one com­plain­ing about today’s youth, or moan­ing about a cul­ture of enti­tle­ment, tell them the story of Austin Hay. We already post­ed one video of Austin Hay’s project to build a tiny house on…

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  • Zendome: Gorgeous Geodesic Domes

    Zendome: Gorgeous Geodesic Domes Create Flexible Spaces | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Diane Pham 5 Tips to Cut Your Electricity Bill With Energy Efficiency Expert David Johnston Cutting back on your energy usage is one of the best ways to bring down your electricity bill. But did you know that…

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  • Marijuana Majority Website

    Marijuana Majority Website Highlights Celebs And Tech Leaders Who Support Pot Legalization Josh Constine, techcrunch.com Suc­cess­ful peo­ple, not just “lazy ston­ers”, want pot laws to change. That’s the mes­sage of new web­site Mar­i­jua­na Major­i­ty, which dis­plays over 600 influ­encers includ­ing Peter Thiel, Sean Park­er, Paul Bucheit, and Dustin Moskovitz… http://flpbd.it/bDBXj Related articles Idaho braces for…

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  • Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder

    By Mark Frauenfelder, makezine.com This sum­mer the folks who pro­duce Dark Rye, the online mag­a­zine for Whole Foods Mar­kets, came to my house in Los Ange­les, and shot a video pro­file of my daugh­ters and me work­ing on dif­fer­ent projects. We made a gui­tar out of a metal… http://flpbd.it/MGnTr Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE…

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  • How Facebook Photos Go Viral

    Daily Infographic: How Facebook Photos Go Viral By Emily Elert, popsci.com George Takei—an actor some of you may rec­og­nize from the orig­i­nal Star Trek series, has a knack for post­ing viral pho­tos on Face­book. Recent­ly, the social media giant asked Sta­men, a San Fran­cis­co design firm, to cre­ate a… http://flpbd.it/gbz2V Related articles 8 Steps to…

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  • Giant 3-D Printing Factory Opens In New York

    Giant 3-D Printing Factory Opens In New York City By Dave Mosher, popsci.com Shapeways, an online 3-D printing company, opened an enormous “Factory of the Future” in Queens, New York that could house 50 industrial printers and churn out millions of consumer-designed products a year. The world’s biggest 3-D print­ing… http://flpbd.it/vyKIx Related articles Man sends…

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  • If Everyone Lived Like An American

    Daily Infographic: If Everyone Lived Like An American, How Many Earths Would We Need? By Emily Elert, popsci.com Hint: It’s a good thing not everyone lives like an American. You’re prob­a­bly already aware that Amer­i­cans con­sume a dis­pro­por­tion­al amount of the world’s stuff. You may even have bumped into some of the sta­tis­tics: We make…

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  • Interactive Fractal Tree of Life

    Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth. From pro­to­zoans to peo­ple, there is a lot of life on this plan­et, and it’s all con­nect­ed to a com­mon ances­tor from which every­thing…

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  • Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village

    Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village? By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com Alpha One Labs co-founder Sean Auri­ti and a group of like-minded hack­ers have launched a cam­paign to build Hack­ert0wn, a Brook­lyn hack­er­space the likes of which the world has never seen. As planned, Hack­ert0wn will be an entire hack­er… http://flpbd.it/8muih Related articles Twitter Account of…

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  • 3rd Ward: Our Creative Community

    (via About Us – Our Creative Community – Brooklyn, NY – 3rd Ward) Related articles ♥ / 3rd Ward (swiss-miss.com) Q&A: Jason Goodman, CEO, 3rd Ward (smartplanet.com) 3rd Ward – Brooklyn, NY, Full time, remote, H1B (news.ycombinator.com) For the Love of Art: A Valentine’s Day Networking Event in NYC (fracturedatlas.org) “Creating Hipsturbia”: Is Gentrification Pushing…

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  • How Many Techies Does It Take to Reelect a President

    How Many Techies Does It Take to Reelect a President? T4O Launches “Innovator Series” Videos for Obama. Kara Swisher, allthingsd.com A large group of tech lumi­nar­ies — includ­ing LinkedIn’s Reid Hoff­man, Path’s Dave Morin, JLab’s Judy Estrin, Drop­box’s Drew Hous­ton, Craigslist’s Craig New­mark and Box’s Aaron Levie — are part of the launch of a…

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  • Natural Keyboard Brings the Outdoors Right to Your Desk

    Natural Keyboard Brings the Outdoors Right to Your Desk Anita Li, mashable.com Hunch­ing over a desk all day at work may make you yearn for the great out­doors. Artist Rob­bie Tilton aims to rem­e­dy that by cre­at­ing a com­put­er key­board made from organ­ic mate­ri­als. Laser cut from an Apple wire­less key­board… http://flpbd.it/EgyTk Related articles Hands-on:…

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  • The Best iPhone Apps

      gizmodo.com There’s an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feel­ing adrift or you’re a salty old dog see­ing what you might’ve missed, here are the absolute­ly essen­tial apps. Social Twit­ter: Twit­ter thank­ful­ly… http://flpbd.it/cdICD The Best iPhone Apps Related articles The Best Alternatives for Almost Every Pre-Loaded iPhone…

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  • Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos

    Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos! Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com I’m at the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence in San Fran­cis­co – and it reminds me a lot of the Web 2.0 Con­fer­ences of 2006-07. The sec­ond com­ing of the Web, coined “Web 2.0” by Tim O’Reil­ly and his com­pa­ny, was enter­ing its peak around 2006. If I……

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  • Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax

    Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Start­up Show­case, a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Mor­gen­thaler Ven­tures and the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence, I saw first­hand how health IT star­tups are tack­ling big, real-world prob­lems. Com­ing from a world where… http://flpbd.it/hw3nH Related articles Video: My interview…

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  • An Epidemic of Absence

    Book review: An Epidemic of Absence takes on the worms you’re missing Diana Gitig, arstechnica.com An Epi­dem­ic of Absence: A New Way of Under­stand­ing Aller­gies and Autoim­mune Dis­eases could be co-marketed with the Thomas Rock­well’s chil­dren’s clas­sic How to Eat Fried Worms. It begins with the author, Moi­ses… http://flpbd.it/sV12A Related articles ‘Everything hurts’: inside the…

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  • Epigenetics inspires philosophical experiments

    Monya Baker, nature.com An artist’s con­cep­tion of epi­ge­net­ic cloning Jonathan Keats The man in the bowtie says he can trans­form you into any­one you want. At the Mod­ernism Gallery in San Fran­cis­co, con­cep­tu­al artist Jonathan Keats is apply­ing his… http://flpbd.it/5U85D Epigenetics inspires philosophical experiments Related articles Life experiences put their stamp on the next generation:…

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  • Panasonic Lumix LX7 Review

    Panasonic Lumix LX7 Review: A Lovely Point-and-Shoot For Control Freaks Brent Rose, gizmodo.com Any­one in the mar­ket for a top point-and-shoot cam­era is prob­a­bly decid­ing between Canon’s S100 and Sony’s RX100. But Pana­son­ic is back in the game with the Lumix LX7, a sequel to one of the top shoot­ers of 2010, the wild­ly pop­u­lar…

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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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