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inhabitots.com - 14 hours ago
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St. Louis Zoo officials have set up electronic
polar bear proxies in their currently vacant exhibit, and
reactions have run the gamut from the confusion of children to celebration by PETA. The electronic polar bears will be featured in the zoo's ...
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inhabitat.com - 13 hours ago
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The beautiful thing about upcycled materials is that
the end results often bear no resemblance to the
original items. Such is the case with sculptor Kris Kuksi ’s toy sculptures, which are constructed out of old toys, statues, and mechanical ...
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Kris Kuksi’s Recycled Toy Sculptures Will Scare the Kids
ramsa.com - 27 hours ago
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The George W. Bush Presidential Center carries forward
the tradition of Southern Methodist University's Georgian-style campus, with
simple wall planes faced with Texas limestone and red brick relieved by rhythmically disposed divided-light windows. ...
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George W. Bush Presidential Center
inhabitat.com - 13 hours ago
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All U.S. Presidents get a center named after
them upon completion of their term in the White
House, and George W. is no exception. Plans for his presidential center were just revealed, and considering how energy efficient his ranch in Crawford is, ...
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Plans for the Green George W. Bush Presidential Center ...
inhabitat.com - 4 days ago
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The recent evolution of solar technology has been
nothing short of amazing, and we are continuously impressed
by all the products hitting the market that make it easier to integrate clean tech into our daily lives. One innovative company at the ...
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Uber-Thin Modular Solar Panels Energize Any Building
inhabitots.com - 38 hours ago
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It's tough being a little person in a
grown-up world. To make life less of an obstacle
course for the vertically challenged, Teng Chuan Tey and Romualdo Faura Bernabe from Spain have designed a wash basin that not only takes a child's diminutive ...
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‘Mons Lavabo’ Eco-Friendly Sink Helps Kids Save Water ...
inhabitat.com - 2 days ago
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This past Monday, the insanely powerful Jaguar XT5
supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was
named the fastest supercomputer in the world . With a speed of 1.759 petaflops (quadrillions of calculations per second), this ...
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World’s Fastest Computer is Working on Solving Climate ...
inhabitat.com - 3 days ago
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We’ve seen some pretty energy efficient homes here
at Inhabitat, but houses that actually give back to
the grid seemed to be a thing of the future — until now. Swedish designers are currently constructing Villa Akarp , a residence that ...
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Energy Positive House to Supply Power to Grid in Sweden
dvice.com - 4 days ago
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The goal of the Green Life competition was
to produce ecologically friendly solutions that were design-centric without
looking completely unrealistic. One of the top three winners accomplished that feat by designing the "shelf." China's Leon Zhu came ...
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Design concept 'shelf' protects your car while solar ...
dezeen.com - 3 days ago
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Shanghai designer Zhili Liu has designed a series
of lighting inspired by birds. Top image: Sparrow. Above:
Nightingale. Called Bird, the bone china sockets hold each bulb at an angle. Above: Doves They can be hung in clusters, attached to a perch ...
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Bird by Zhili Liu
got2begreen.com - 3 days ago
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Cartridge World is providing consumers and businesses with
an alternative to reduce the impact of millions of
cartridges that are thrown away and that end up in landfills each year. By making this choice, you are helping to protect the future of our environment. This proactive solution to waste ...
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Cartridge World Is Committed to Helping Save the Environment
we-make-money-not-art.com - 2 days ago
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The exhibition addresses the current moment in history
where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality
is piling up, while globalized forces--largely enabled by the "progress" of digital information ...
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Feedforward. The Angel of History. Part 1: Wreckage and ...
inhabitat.com - 3 days ago
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Land mines are currently strewn throughout 87 of
the world’s countries, and each year they cause 15,000-20,000
new casualties , the vast majority of which are inflicted upon civilians. Sifting through minefields to remove these hidden threats ...
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Scientists Create Bacteria that Glows to Reveal Land Mines
inhabitots.com - 6 days ago
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Fantasy and reality beautifully collide in Minimii's 1:16
scale dollhouse reproduction of designer Arne Jacobsen’s 1928 villa
in Charlottenlund, Denmark. Designed by Linda Stenberg and Claus Hojer Hansen, the Danish creative directors of Minimii, the ...
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Minimii’s Dollhouse Replicates Arne Jacobsen’s ...
minimii.com - 9 days ago
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minimii_10-250x1702 The idea is to create a dollhouse
that is a true copy of an existing Arne
Jacobsen house (his own house at Gotfred Rodes Vej 2, Charlottenlund) in 1:16 format, and most likely 1:12 as well. Furthermore we produce miniature models ...
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About Minimii
inhabitat.com - 4 days ago
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Nearly 1.6 billion servings of Coca-Cola-branded beverages are
served each day. Now some of them will be
just a little bit greener now that Coke has announced the global rollout of its PlantBottle , a plastic bottle made from a blend of ...
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Coke Announces Global Rollout of Plant-Based Plastic Bottles
