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The difference between ‘old’ environmentalism and ‘new’ is dropping the guilt-laden should, and replacing it with could. Rather then harping on peoples weaker motivations, it’s all about inspiring them to be empowered and think creative, big, fun.
Maybe nothing says sustainability=fun more than The PlayPump system. It’s a pump. Boooring. But, it’s also a kid’s round-about. [...]

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Courtesy of Jaymi from Treehugger.com, we have some more info on the growing field of Atmospheric Water Generators that I wrote about last week. Firstly, there are LOT more models that I previously thought. Jaymi’s article names 7 different models, each with their own pluses and minuses. A big takeaway: the productivity greatly depends on [...]

An interesting article today in the Times says that the incandescent bulb, relatively unchanged since the time of Edison, might not need to be eulogized quite yet. Teams of scientists are racing to revolutionize the old standard in hopes of sparing it from obsolescence because of efficiency standards, set to take effect in 2012. I [...]

Surya in London and Greenhouse in New York both vie for worlds 1st “sustainable nightclub” status.  With green mania being exposed in all its verdant vibrancy, the future is now as eco-conscious party goers power the clubs’ electricity on piezoelectric flooring, along with commercial wind and solar elements.  Over at House Stuff Works, they diligently [...]

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It’s appropriate that I am sitting in Seattle, the home to the flagship store of one of the most environmentally conscious and active retailers, as I post.  In a pretty impressive mail sent out to REI members yesterday, the company has taken it upon themselves to get to zero waste to landfill by the year [...]

Lately, Audi has been doing really big things with clean diesel engines.  Similarly, a German auto-nerd has just set a world record for the fastest car driven by bio-gas using… an Audi sedan.  This story over at autoblog.com tells a little more as to how Jürgen Hohenester, a German race car drive, tweaked his Audi [...]

What’s up with waves man?  I’ve always been obsessed with the idea of lights’ wave/particle duality (hint: it’s both); And now it’s all about waves wherever I turn, from the idea of wave power to the new Google Wave email system (I watched the video for this btw, and can’t quite tell why people are [...]

Ray Anderson is the CEO of the largest carpet company in the world, Interface. Carpet is one of the most resource intensive products on the planet. Ray has vowed to change that and his story is a good one. An inspiration for the rest of the CEOs out there. Here he [...]