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An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com “Ecological Urbanism,” a book of essays published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, was destined to fall out of date. The iPad version won’t have that problem. In 2010, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design published… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign,…
10 Steps To Transform Capitalism For The Better BY JOHN ELKINGTON AND CHARMIAN LOVE, fastcoexist.com Our economic system could better serve people and the planet. These are the small pivots we can take to make it more equitable. Editor’s Note In this series of five stories, Volans will highlight key presentations from the Breakthrough… RT…
Infographic: Watch NYC Get Buried Under Its CO2 Emissions By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com In 2010, NYC added 54 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. This video shows it as a big, blue ball pit. Last week, thousands in New York and millions at home watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, an annual, multi-hour…
The Wondrous Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com U.K. artist Rob Kesseler is working with the Millennium Seed Bank to illustrate the remarkable, nearly invisible world of microscopic botany. As long as humans have made art, they’ve looked to the flora and fauna around them for inspiration.… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign, The…
By Damon Lavrinc, wired.com LOS ANGELES, California – Geländewagen. It’s not an Austrian insult or some obscure epithet from the Eastern Bloc; it’s Mercedes-Benz’ iconic SUV. Originally crafted with a ruler and a chisel for military use, it eventually went… http://flpbd.it/cujf3 Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV Related articles Smart Crossover SUV to…
Beth Buczynski, earthtechling.com These days, everyone has a smart phone or tablet. In an attempt to keep these gadgets organized (and working) we’ve adopted an entire industry of protective accessories that express our unique sense of style and expression. While they ma… http://flpbd.it/ppQjA Pong Cases Protect Devices And Your Brain Simultaneously Related articles MaKey MaKey…
What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech Brian Barrett, gizmodo.com Barack Obama’s victory last night has far-reaching fiscal, social, and military implications, all of which are familiar to anyone who kept at least one eye open during any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech… What Obama’s Victory Means for…
Fenix ReadySet | Popular Science popsci.com Energy storage, redesigned. The ReadySet portable base station can draw and store energy from a number of sources: A 15-watt solar panel charges its battery in seven hours. Next year, Fenix will release a kinetic generator, which can hel… http://flpbd.it/uIyLy Related articles Intelligent plug-and-play energy system charges by sun,…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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,…
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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