Goat Tech 1.0 An internet giant’s datacenter might not be the first place where you would expect to find a herd of goats, but if you happen to be at Yahoo!’s datacenter in Quincy, Washington, you could very well meet some very special employees working to clear out invasive weeds…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What is Yahoo! Doing with Goats?
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Every year the Electrolux Design Competition introduces some fascinating concepts into the world of food; sometimes they are even green; this year most of them are just bizarre. Perhaps the prize should be a copy of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules; these people have never seen a kitchen, and in fact seem anti-food. Emma, shown above, doesn’t even have a kitchen, but a holodeck helmet that lets her see an virtual one. “The thoughts of the user are then transmitted to robotic chefs within the building who then prepare the visualised meal in a real kitchen and with real ingredients. In effect, the headset replaces the need for kitchen appliances in ind… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Electrolux Design Competition Finalists are Just Weird This Year
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photo: Wikipedia A new report in the Center for Disease Control’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases highlights one more bad consequence of Amazon deforestation : In areas that have been cleared of trees incidence of malaria increase nearl… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Amazon Deforestation Increases Malaria Rate by 50%
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All image credits: IAAC The solar decathlon in Washington looked like so much fun that they wanted to join the party in Europe, and so it is opening today in Madrid . The purpose is “To educate the general public on renewable energy, energy efficiency and the technologies available to help them reduce their energy consumption” and “To clearly demonstrate that solar houses can be built without sacrificing energy efficiency or comfort, and that they can be both attractive and affordable.” They are also really pushing the envelope on design, as demonstrated with the FabLab House from the
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Digital Design Goes Solar With FabLab at Solar Decathlon Europe
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Photo via kevwhelan The common estimate is that humans have explored only 95% of the world’s oceans. Considering they cover about 75% of the planet’s surface and hold vast amounts of flora and fauna, yet is incredibly fragile and suffering terribly from abuse by humans and changes in the chemistry of our atmosphere, it’s no wonder that researchers want to collect as much data as possible into one place so that we can better understand this watery resource. Australia – home of such marine treasures as the Great Barrier Reef – appreciates the importance of this task and has p… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Australia Open-Sourcing Ocean Data With New Integrated Marine Information System
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Image credit: Ecotricity British wind developer Ecotricity, and French nuclear giant EDF, have already clashed over EDF’s co-opting of a green Union Jack flag . The resulting spat even caused Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince to rename the EDF-sponsored “Green Britain Day” as National Greenwash Day . It looks like the row is set to resume as the “holiday” rolls around again. Interestingly (and perhaps smartly, from a purely t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo by rkimpeljr via flickr. It may seem like an, “Oh, duh,” with the government the last to confirm the news, but a 15-year report released by the U.S. Department of Transporation and the Federal Highway Administration shows a 25% increase in trips by bike and walking since 2001. The National Bicycling and Walking Study: 15-Year Status Report has been following the action since 1994, and the news is (mostly) good – in the U.S. we’ve reversed a trend of decreasing trips by biking and walking. And the Obama Administration spent $1.2 billion on bike and walk programs in 2009… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Biking, Walking Gets More Bucks, Keeps Going Up
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If watching the World Cup isn’t satisfying your love of sport, folks in Estonia have developed a game that may give you a new itch to scratch. Recently, thirty-seven brave participants gathered on a field in the city of Tartu to compete in a record-breaking mosquito-hunting c… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image of oil spill on June 10th via NASA The BP Gulf spill has long been declared the greatest environmental disaster in US history. Millions of lives have been impacted, thousands of livelihoods lost, and unquantifiable damage done to wildlife and ecosystems. And while president Obama took the oval office last night to deliver a speech chock full of soaring rhetoric , many of the hard facts about the spill weren’t covered. So, in the interest of s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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