The appropriately named SHED Architecture and Design has done a lovely garage conversion into a 300 square foot studio apartment in a Seattle backyard…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Gorgeous Garage Conversion By Shed Architects
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Photo via CNET , Credit: Yahoo The big competitive race for data centers these days isn’t how many servers they can hold, but how efficiently they can hold them. It leads to some pretty cool (literally) architectural ideas, from keeping servers in shipping containers to storing them in cathedrals . But Yahoo has gone a different route. Taking a cue from the efficient cooling of chicken coops, the company has modeled their latest data center aft… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Yahoo’s New Efficient Data Center Modeled After Chicken Coops
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Last week’s announcement that the EPA is bringing its Climate Leaders program to an end shocked many in the greenhouse gas reporting community. The Environmental Director of a Global Technology Company told me that he was “very disappointed that the EPA would withdraw this program” and Paul Baier with Groom Energy says that the announcement “clearly caught our customers off guard, after they have invest… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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More Reaction To The Decision To End The EPA Climate Leaders Program
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Photos via Carolina Fontoura Alzaga Artists Carolina Fontoura Alzaga has a way with bike chains. She transforms old bike parts into some seriously cool one-of-a-kind chandeliers. They have a certain steam punk style that we love, while also upcycling up what might otherwise go to the landfill. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Steam Punk Chandelier From Old Bikes? Yes, Please
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Photo via ~jjjohn~ You like to-may-toes and I like to-mah-toes Up until recently, botanists believed that there to be over one million types of flowering plants on Earth, but now about 600 thousand of those species my soon be cut from the list — but extinction’s not to blame this time. It turns out that after decades of cataloging plants from around the world, there… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Researchers Cut 600,000 Names From Global Plant List
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Images: Think Contemporary Surely you’ve gotten the urge at least once — passing by an anonymous pile of discarded furniture pieces curbside, you feel a compulsion to rescue some forlorn credenza from landfill purgatory and to make it something ‘new’ and beautiful again. Dublin-based interior design company Think Contemporary seems to have heeded the call, launching a line of upcycled furniture that appears to have found its own unique voice…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Comfortable Contemporary’: Upcycled Furniture from Think Contemporary
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Image via USA Today Relief Wells May be Later Used for Drilling While we were all quietly celebrating the news that the Macondo well that spewed nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf was finally officially “dead” , there were nagging concerns that nevertheless refused to be silenced. For example, will US policy towards offshore drilling change in any meaningful way? Will the practice be safer? Or, more symbo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Gulf Spill Reservoir Still Worth $3.5 Billion, Will Likely be Tapped Again
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Photo: Flickr , CC Officials in Kuwait have announced that a comprehensive survey of their territorial waters has revealed that about 90% of the corals there are dead or dying. The head of the Kuwait Diving Team, Walid Al-Fadhel, said in a statement: “this requires quick action by the competent authorities to find out the real causes, as well as solutions.” He also called on frequent goers to these marine natural sites to refrain from any action that may inflict damage in the reefs or kill the creatures co-existing with them…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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90% of Coral Reefs Have Died Mysteriously Along Kuwait’s Coast
Notwithstanding our previously mentioned reservations about ground source heat pumps, For people who live by lakes and rivers they can make a lot of sense. There is no drilling required; just throw the pipe into the lake. But even this simpler system is subject to errors in installation, and all that pipe can disrupt fish habitat and cause other problems. That is why I was so intrigued when I saw the advertisement for the Limnion Geothermal Transfer System ; It puts the enti… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Limnion Geothermal Energy Reactors Offer Idiot-proof Installation, Small Footprint
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photo: Walmart In continued efforts to deploy more renewable energy at its stores, Walmart announced today that it will be installing solar panels at an additional 20-30 of its stores in California and Arizona, opting at most of the locations to install thin-film solar panels rather than traditional crystalline panels. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Walmart Adding Thin-Film Solar Panels On 20-30 More Stores
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