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BYD Stops Production of F3e Electric Car (At Least for Now)

Photo: Michael Graham Richard A Set Back, But the Future is Still Promising BYD, the enormous Chinese battery-maker which has been branching out into automobile manufacturing, has decided to stop production of its F3e electric car for now. Apparently, the company “changed its mind after a market investigation and consultation with the dealers for everyone thought there were still problems with the supporting infrastructure and market environment at the moment and what the company needed were transitional products.” What they mean is that they’ll be sticking with their plug-in hybrids for the time be… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Angelina Jolie To Retire And Live In Africa

Hollywood superstar and U.N Ambassador ANGELINA Jolie plans to live in Africa after her acting curtain is about to fall down. Angelina Jolie,who stars opposite Johnny Depp in expressed her desire to move her entire family to Africa when and the time comes that she will decide to accept less acting work. Jolie along with Angelina Jolie To Retire And Live In Africa is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

Amber Heard Is Red Hot

Here’s Amber Heard looking red hot at some party over the weekend. That’s pretty much all I’ve got for you, no nipple slips, no massive cleavage, no flashing of the lady parts getting out of an SUV. It’s just some C list horror movie actress in a red dress… I’m bored already. This is probably why she’s never asked to be in anything other than slasher flicks. It’s pretty obvious that showing off a lot off cleavage gets you noticed by the celebrity blogs, which in tern gets you noticed by the mainstream celebrity media which helps you get jobs in the movies which makes you famous. Everybody knows that. Now show us your tits. BREAKING NEWS — Amber announced she’s a lesbian over the weekend so she’s all of a sudden become a lot hotter. Enjoy.

Ultra Rare Albino Redwoods Are an Everwhite Mystery (Pics)

Photo via KQED video While they might look like flocked Christmas trees, these albino redwoods are anything but. The very rare “ghost trees” lack chlorophyll, the necessary chemical that makes plants green and helps them convert sunlight to food. So, the trees feed off energy from a host redwood. There are as few as perhaps 25 albino redwoods around the world, and eight in the Henry Cowell Redwood State Park in Northern California. Check out a video from KQED explaining how these albino trees function. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Folding Beds from Griffon Make Reclaimed Space Look Good

Image courtesy of Griffon The French furniture company Griffon was established in 1848 and spent the next century making conventional products for churches and private homes. But in the 1960s, Griffon turned to creating furniture for an increasingly urban population, as the French moved out of the countryside into cities, and into smaller homes. Today, the company is still doing it, and offers an impressive catalog of folding beds, from the simple to the majestic. Folding a bed into your furniture never looked so good…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Global Solar Energy Could Hit 980 GW in Under 10 Years

Photo: Jeda Villa Bali , Flickr, CC That’s the finding of a newly released report , put together by a trade group of over 20 associations around the world, that tracks the development of solar power around the world. According to the findings, by 2020, the world could easily enjoy 1,000 Gigawatts of solar power — if the proper incentives and support is given by world governments. You might also be surprised for the sunny future projected for US solar: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Empathy The Most Important Survival Skill of the 21st Century? John Marshall Roberts Thinks So (Video)

From a psychological and metaphysical perspective global climate change, just a symptom of the greater problem of unsustainable resource usage by humans, isn’t a problem of greenhouse gases, it’s a problem of lack of empathy and the triumph of cynicism. I’ve written about this many times on… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NASA’s New Life Form a Boon for Clean Energy, Toxic Waste Cleanup

The intertubes were abuzz with the big news from NASA yesterday: Researchers announced they discovered a new kind of life that rearranges all our assumptions about life as we know it (but first they had to apologize that no, it wasn’t an alien ). This life form, a microbe that substitutes phosphate (heretofore a building block of all life on e… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ecotopia or Sprawling Nightmare? Four Scenarios for the Future of our Cities (video)

Image credit: Forum for the Future As New York’s efforts to create a livable city show , we are already seeing far-reaching changes to how our cities are organized—and not before time. But there is still an awful lot more to do. Yesterday I wrote about a new report detailing how megacities must change in the face of a population explosion . My initial post focused primarily on the six principles outlined for creating more wor… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Adopt A Robot, Made From Parts That Refused To Die

image credit Brian Marshall Brian Marshall runs a robot orphanage, repurposing used parts that “refused to give up on life just because they were being discarded.” They are quite clever and funny, if a bit expensive at hi s Etsy store, but he also creates wonderful sculpture photos of his robots in action. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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