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Welcome to Masdar City
Masdar Initiative The narrow streets planned for Masdar City will keep the air from stagnating. Foster + PartnersThe United Arab Emirates plans what would be the first sustainable zero carbon city The...
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The Living Museum
The Living Museum The California Academy of Sciences is the world's most eco-friendly museum Graham MurdochFor a newly minted museum in San Francisco, the green architecture is the main exhibit From a...
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Fighting Poverty With Technology
Super MoneyMaker PumpLemelson-MIT ProgramMIT professor awarded for his innovative, human-powered irrigation pump The Super MoneyMaker Pump—yes, that's the real name—sucks up water from sources as many...
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Green Guitars
Gibson Assembly LineJustin Brockie, courtesy FlickrInstrument makers are now focusing on sustainability as well as sustain Dear EarthTalk: I'm a musician and am curious about what the guitar industry...
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Sustainably Speaking: Buildings, a Better Future
Empire State Building The Empire State Building is getting a facelift -- and part of its remodeling will make it much more energy-efficient. Today The Green Grok looks at how far reducing the carbon...
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Designers Envision a Future of Citrus-Powered Hot Rods
Sustainability at 700 Horsepower: A Concept Hot Rod Envisions a Powerful, Lower-Impact Future The "Stauro" is a conceptual roadster with the horsepower of an exotic supercar that uses recycled...
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Danish Island Becomes One of the First Energy-Self-Sufficient Places On Earth
A Self-Sufficient Energy Mix Wind turbines deployed in conjunction with solar energy and a series of furnaces burning straw and wood chips manage to heat and power the entire island of Samso with...
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Bio-Manufactured Bricks Are Made at Room Temperature From Bacteria, Sand and...
Bricks Made From Bacteria, Sand and Urine This montage shows how biomanufactured bricks are made. An American architecture professor in the United Arab Emirates invented a brick-making method that uses...
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Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights
Someday, This Tree Could Be Producing Its Own Lightnauright on FlickrTaiwanese researchers have come up with the elegant idea of replacing streetlights with trees, by implanting their leaves with gold...
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How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America
Dubuque, IowaDirk via WikimediaBy providing its citizens with a steady stream of personalized, real-time data, the ninth-largest city in Iowa is changing the world When Roy Buol stepped into the...
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How a Lab of College Students Invented the World's Best Home Blast-Chiller
The Energy and Design Research Lab at the Cooper UnionColin LecherThe Cooper Cooler can chill a Coke or Budweiser in one minute. It's the fastest on the market, but the college lab that invented it...
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Electric Spray Paint Could Turn Any Surface Into a Battery
Paint-on BatteryRice UniversityLithium-ion batteries work by stacking active ingredients in layers. In your laptop and phone, the layers are stacked into a block, but a new process could make that seem...
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Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Could Cause Ultraviolet Damage to Skin
CFL BulbWikimedia CommonsWe know CFL bulbs are world-changingly efficient, producing the same level of light as their incandescent parents while using a quarter of the energy. But they're still a...
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The 7 Greatest Engineering Innovations Of 2012
The Largest SemisubmersibleCourtesy DockwiseFrom the world's largest semisubmersible vessel to a carbon-neutral office building that might be the most sustainable workplace ever In 2012, buildings,...
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How Kids (And Other Amateurs) Are Improving Science
Citizen ScientistsJon Gilbert Fox/PSUA new report takes an in-depth dive into citizen science. Enlisting non-scientists, the researchers say, could revolutionize how we collect data. Scientists often...
View ArticleAmerica's Road To Energy Independence, Part 1
A four-part series on the clean technologies that will set us free Our series follows editor-in-chief Jacob Ward on a trip across the country and around the world to see firsthand the ideas that could...
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A four-part series on the clean technologies that will set us free Our series follows Editor-in-Chief Jacob Ward on a trip across the country and around the world to see firsthand the ideas that could...
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A four-part series on the clean technologies that will set us free Please enable Javascript to watch this video Our series follows Editor-in-Chief Jacob Ward on a trip across the country and around the...
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The final episode of our series on the clean technologies that will set us free Please enable Javascript to watch this video Our series follows Editor-in-Chief Jacob Ward on a trip across the country...
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Danish Island Becomes One of the First Energy-Self-Sufficient Places On Earth
A Self-Sufficient Energy Mix Wind turbines deployed in conjunction with solar energy and a series of furnaces burning straw and wood chips manage to heat and power the entire island of Samso with...
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