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Yeti 150: Goal Zero Unveils A Plug-And-Play Solar Generator For Emergencies Or Off-Grid Adventures at CES 2013 | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building bmw2002tnt says:, inhabitat.com Sustainable gadgets are making waves again at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Last year, Goal Zero wowed CES attendees with its Yeti…
East Village’s Molecule Cafe Serves Nothing But Filtered NYC Tap Water! inhabitat.com Glass of water photo via Shutterstock A new watering hole called the Molecule Cafe has opened up in New York’s East Village, and it serves only one thing – NYC tap water. Considering that the cafe gets the water for free, filters it…
Bargain Homes Lure Buyers Worldwide to Detroit: Mortgages By Chris Christoff -, bloomberg.com Jim West/Zuma Press Peter Grosso of Long Island, New York, paid about $90,000 for 29 Detroit homes at an auction for tax-delinquent properties last October. He’s sure they’ll sell at a profit within 10 years, while he rents them for… RT @BloombergNews:…
A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com To get definitive evidence if oil from the BP spill has seeped into water sources, citizen scientists need a device called a spectrometer. Sounds fancy and expensive. But a new project will send you one made with nothing but a few…
A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com There is a lot of talk about the dangers of fracking, but few hard facts. BaseTrace’s new technology—using DNA—will let you test to see if the natural gas extraction process has contaminated your water. Depending on whether you’ve just…
CO2 Is Why You’re Fat BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com As the atmosphere fills with more carbon dioxide, it might mean that breathing creates a chemical reaction that makes you want to eat more. And more. And even more. There is no single factor that has caused widespread obesity in the… CO2 Is Why You’re Fat…
Simon Rogers, guardian.co.uk How have temperatures changed where you live? Simon Rogers RT @guardianscience: Decades of temperature change where you live mapped http://flip.it/MPZ3f http://flip.it/PZL17 Decades of temperature change where you live mapped Related articles Earth’s Core is Much Hotter Than Scientists Thought (blogs.discovermagazine.com) Visualization of the Week: Every recorded U.S terror attack 1970-2011 (strata.oreilly.com)…
Up to 50 Percent of All Food Produced is Thrown Away Tafline Laylin, inhabitat.com Researchers with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) has released their findings that between 30 to 50 percent of all food produced or up to two billion tons is thrown away each year. The UK-based group claims that over-cautious sell by……
USDA offers up new seed money for small farmers gristsusie, grist.org Make your hydroponic backyard organic kale dreams come true, now with help from the federal government. Yesterday the U.S. Department of Agriculture finalized a microloan program to assist veterans, minority growers, and small-time farmers who mig… USDA offers up new seed money for small…
Japan’s quiet, clean demolition technique generates clean energy By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Technology A Japanese construction company is using giant jacks and electricity-generating cranes to dismantle a high-rise tower in Tokyo, floor by floor. Taisei Corporation is using its Ecological Reproduction System (Tecorep… RT @WiredUK: Japan’s quiet, clean demolition technique generates clean energy http://flip.it/Q7td8 by…
How Washington, DC became the capital of bike-sharing in the US By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Washinton, DC was never known for being bike-friendly — but over the last decade, the city is home to the largest and most successful bike-sharing program in the country. Slate tracks its rise, pinning much of the success on former……
A Tool To Let Companies Design Products Without Harmful Chemicals BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com We all know BPA is bad, but so are a lot of other chemicals we don’t know too much about. A new service lets companies find out if what they’re selling us might end up being the next BPA—so they can…
2013 Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong By Juliet Eilperin, popsci.com Barack Obama’s second term should see the same focus on funding science and technology—although the budget ax is looming. Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the… RT @gram_positive: But will remain weak in the Philippines.…
Is Climate Change Self-Correcting? Australia’s Heatwave Stops Gasoline Sales By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com At high outback temperatures, gasoline vaporizes too quickly to pump. Continuing Australia’s trend of being majorly unpleasant this week, it got so hot in the Outback town of Oodnadatta a few days ago that you couldn’t even pump gas. RT @PopSci: Good…
By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com A California company is selling car insurance by the mile, using in-car sensors to log data. The longer plan is to have a running monitor of the car’s health. http://flip.it/iV6qk Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile Related articles Car insurance prices ‘start to fall’ (bbc.co.uk)
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