This just in from Yanko Design - the Energy Tree. Apparently in an effort to truly unite technology with the physical environment, designer Ben Arent has created a system that contains a real tree connected to a microprocessor. The device controls the watering and feeding of the tree depending on your energy […]
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Why just have signs over the highway? Joe at Arizona State University thinks that horizontal wind turbines might zip around from the turbulence created from cars and trucks. Those cyclists who have tried drafting behind transport trucks know that there is quite a bit of suction there, more than enough to spin these turbines. Joe […]
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Before the BIC, there was no such thing as the disposable pen, one used a ballpoint with a refill or a fountain pen that you filled with ink, and you never threw your pen away.
However we have all been spoiled and expect to write with cheap disposables, so Pilot has introduced a new line […]
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With all of the discussion of India’s economic growth (and growing carbon emissions), it’s sometimes easy to forget that this nation of over one billion citizens is still developing. According to an article from yesterday’s Financial Express, a 2001 census showed that 519,570 villages in India do not have power. While many of the […]
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As I was sliding head first down an old spiral grain shute, at considerable speed, screaming at the top of my lungs, a thought passed through my mind: surely this the most fun anyone can have in a museum! The City Museum in St. Louis has none of the hushed reverant atmosphere of a normal […]
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While Matthew was posting about Big Brother houses yesterday I saw the most remarkable demonstration of one that is available now to Bell Canada customers. Forgive the picture of the stupid Bell Canada beaver, but the program was just launched at the Green Living Show and it is the only image I could find.
With this […]
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Modbury, a sleepy little town of 1,500 residents in South Devon, has become the first town in Britain to ban plastic bags. As of May 1, customers will be allowed to bring their own plastic bags to reuse, but if they want a new bag they will have to buy one. A […]
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This hybrid HVAC tech is so cool and so hot - including the possibility of using direct solar collectors to cool and heat our buildings- we’re surprised it hasn’t had very much media coverage of late. From the Yazaki Energy Systems, Inc. web site (Plano Texas, USA) Yazaki water fired SINGLE-EFFECT […]
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Some good stats out today from at outifit named Lux Research on the bubble aborning in green-tech investing. (Bubbles aren’t necessarily a bad thing, by the way, as a new book by my pal Daniel Gross argues.) Lux counts 930 energy startups in the world today, and firm president Matthew Nordan says “there’s no way […]
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