[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
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If Eva Mendes asked you to recycle a cell phone, and she did it all sexy-like, made up as a femme fatale from the 40’s, would you do it? The Environmental Media Association thinks you will—the organization is working with the folks behind the upcoming superhero comic book noir […]
Short answer to the question posed by the headline: for everyone but the super-rich, it’ll take many extra years, now, in areas ravaged by weather extremes. Corollary: we’re back to emphasis on lifestyle changes.
Background
In the 1960’s, singer, songwriter Tom Rush made famous his arrangement of the traditional song “Galveston Flood,” passing the story […]
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HOK and Biomimicry Guild Unite
It’s official: HOK, one of the world’s largest architectural design firms, has joined an alliance with the Biomimicry Guild, the world’s premier bio-inspired innovation company. The result? A greatly heightened, cooperative effort to mainstream bio-inspired design, and new collaborations on a number of intriguing international […]
Fortum’s design for a pay-to-recharge system in Stockholm (note the recharging icon).
Finnish Fortum and the City of Stockholm have been feverishly working to design a pay-to-pump electric car infrastructure. Sweden took a baby step ahead this week when start-up company Sust (Sustainable Innovation AM) declared its intention to quickly make the country a test market […]
The i MiEV Sport, image courtesy of Neolaia
The Mitsubishi i MiEV is one of the most promising electric vehicles in development (as you loyal TreeHugger readers are likely aware). And now they could become the most prevalent car in Iceland.
Hydrogen Transit Trouble
Iceland announced in 1998 that it had plans of becoming the world’s […]
The i MiEV Sport, image courtesy of Neolaia
The Mitsubishi i MiEV is one of the most promising electric vehicles in development (as you loyal TreeHugger readers are likely aware). And now they could become the most prevalent car in Iceland.
Hydrogen Transit Trouble
Iceland announced in 1998 that it had plans of becoming the world’s […]
Image courtesy of Landscape + Urbanism
HOK and Biomimicry Guild Unite
It’s official: HOK, one of the world’s largest architectural design firms, has joined an alliance with the Biomimicry Guild, the world’s premier bio-inspired innovation company. The result? A greatly heightened, cooperative effort to mainstream bio-inspired design, and new collaborations on a number of intriguing international […]
Photo by Alison Cleary
Giant Kangaroo Rats. There’s an entire population of them out there, and perhaps unbeknownst to you, they’re already firmly entrenched in the Central Californian ecosystem. Just to clear things up—scientists are watching them from space, via satellite, as part of a program spearheaded by the Nature Conservancy and UC Berkeley researchers.
Using […]
Image source: core77 and Peter Thuvander
More fun than the sun!
That is how Swedish designer Peter Thuvander is describing the yo-yo induction charger that he has dubbed the iYo. Even if Apple does come out with the patent-pending Solar iPhone, it won’t do a lot of good during the long, dark Swedish winter. And
Scientists believe a type of bacterium living in our intestines could be linked to the development of colon cancer.