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St. Louis Zoo Exhibits Electronic Proxies in Place of Dead Polar Bears

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:00:25 +0000

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 upcoming holiday Wild Lights exhibit, but the dark ...

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Kris Kuksi’s Recycled Toy Sculptures Will Scare the Kids

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:31 +0000

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 parts. Read the rest of Kris ...

GreenPacks.org found this 18 hours ago on inhabitat.com

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George W. Bush Presidential Center

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:09:22 +0000

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. The building presents three distinct facades. ...

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Plans for the Green George W. Bush Presidential Center Released

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

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, it really should come as no surprise that the ...

Green Daily found this 19 hours ago on inhabitat.com

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Tips and Inspiration: Decorating With Candles

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:16:47 +0000

No Thanksgiving table—or any dinner table, for that matter—is complete without candles. The soft, flickering light from candles sets an instantly intimate mood. My husband and I often light candles on random old weeknights, just to make our meal that much more relaxing. As you ...

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Uber-Thin Modular Solar Panels Energize Any Building

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:26 +0000

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 forefront of the solar energy bustle is ...

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‘Mons Lavabo’ Eco-Friendly Sink Helps Kids Save Water While Washing Hands

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:44 +0000

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 stature into account, but it also makes ...

INHABITAT found this 44 hours ago on inhabitots.com

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World’s Fastest Computer is Working on Solving Climate Change

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:32:41 +0000

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 incredibly swift machine is currently being used by ...

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Energy Positive House to Supply Power to Grid in Sweden

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:00:04 +0000

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 aims to combine energy conservation, energy ...

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Design concept 'shelf' protects your car while solar charging

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:26 +0000

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 up with this innovative yet simple way to ...

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Bird by Zhili Liu

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:40 +0000

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 or displayed with a ...

EcoSalon found this 3 days ago on dezeen.com

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Cartridge World Is Committed to Helping Save the Environment

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:28:53 +0000

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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Feedforward. The Angel of History. Part 1: Wreckage and countermeasures

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:49:14 +0000

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 technologies--inexorably feed us forward continue

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Scientists Create Bacteria that Glows to Reveal Land Mines

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:12:00 +0000

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 is currently a dangerous, tedious, and ...

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Minimii’s Dollhouse Replicates Arne Jacobsen’s Charlottenlund Villa on a Smaller, Yet Grand Scale

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:00:59 +0000

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 dollhouse features a roof and four walls that ...

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Coke Announces Global Rollout of Plant-Based Plastic Bottles

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:02:06 +0000

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 petroleum-based materials and 30% plant based materials ...

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Sustainability Research. Sustainable Real Estate. Jones Lang LaSalle

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:03:33 +0000

Sustainability is a core research topic at Jones Lang LaSalle. Our teams around the world have been generating a growing body of technical and strategic research and valuable insights since we launched our first report in Australia in 2004. Our aim is to provide investors, occupiers, developers ...

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Perkins+Will Precautionary List

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:12:08 +0000

We believe that it is appropriate to apply the precautionary principle when selecting and specifying products and materials in light of the lasting impact such materials may have on the users of facilities we design. We need to make our selections based upon governmentally published scientific ...

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Brass: Solar gurus meet to chart course

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:54:00 +0000

The Green Aggregator The EcoBot found the following on 2009-11-10 05:03:53: Knoxville News Sentinel wrote... Brass: Solar gurus meet to chart courseKnoxville News SentinelThe event...

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Mars unveils 18-acre solar garden in Hackettstown

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:39:00 +0000

By Danny Teigman/The Star-Ledger November 09, 2009, 7:50PM HACKETTSTOWN -- Victoria Mars says her favorite M color is green, a fitting choice for a company that today celebrated its recent installation of one of New Jersey’s largest solar systems. Mars, an ombudsman for the famous chocolate ...

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