Image credit: Kanu Hawaii /Creative Commons Aquaponics usually stirs up a good deal of interest and debate here. From the awesome urban aquaponics of Growing Power to industrial-scale aquaponics operations , plenty of people believe in the idea of recycling fish poop into plant food in an efficient semi-closed-loop system. And yet questions remain—I’ve asked before whether
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Can Aquaponics Pay for Itself?
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Image via Google Lat-Long Blog Google Earth’s ocean layers are incredible, and the company has made the feature of their much loved software mobile — Google Earth 1.1 for (of course) Android has just added their oceans layer. You can zoom around the sea floor, exploring the entire Monterey Bay Canyon, for example, or search through photos and videos from contributors. It’s certainly an entertaining and educational way to spend a morning train commute. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Google Earth Adds Ocean Exploration to Android App
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Image by author A few weeks ago I was walking around the WOMAD festival munching on Riverford Organic brownies and sipping from a Frank Water refillable bottle when I stumbled across the Roots Architecture camp and was immediately struck by the beauty of this sleek angular structure. Designed and built by Norwegian architecture practice TYIN Tegnestue this was one of four stages b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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TYIN Tengestue – Rustic Yet Sleekly Modern Humanitarian Architecture (Photos)
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Photos from Bridgestone Americas Inc . This car turns heads. It’s clear. And clearly one of the most efficient in the world. It was built by students at the DeLaSalle Automotive Design Studio in Kansas City, Missouri, as a high school class project…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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See-Through Car is Super Efficient (307 mpg!)
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Images: Times of India (AFP) and Channel News Asia It’s a vegetal plot fit for a bad zombie flick: desperate to make their produce look fresher, bigger and mature faster, some Indian farmers are injecting their veggies with hormones on the sly. The most commonly-used substance: oxytocin, a reproductive hormone found in mammals. Oxytocin acts primarily as a neurotransmitter in the brai… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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India’s Farmers Injecting Veggies With "Love Hormone"
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Image: Mitsubishi 28 Days to Cross the Country with Electricity Mitsubishi wanted to do a big PR stunt to market its i MiEV electric car, and Canada’s a big country. They put the two together and the i MiEV (it does kinda look like a jellybean) is en route to cross Canada in 28 days, stop numerous time to do a quick recharge and to show the car to journalists and enthusiasts in various cities. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Crossing Canada in 28 Days with an Electric Jellybean (aka i MiEV)
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I know, I know, this is not a photogenic dish. In fact, as one of my previous commenters eloquently noted about another post , it looks like something the cat cacked up. Nasty visuals aside, these refried beans are the base of lots of great Mexican dishes. It may not be pretty to look at, but it is totally delicious…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Weekday Vegetarian: Make Refried Beans as a Base For Lots of Dishes
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Images via Dreamfarm The return of water fountains across cities has been the buzz lately, with places like London restoring old fountains and New York setting up new ones, though those are only temporary . It seems as though taking back the tap is finally catching on, and access to
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Tapi Tap Squeezes a Drink from Any Spigot
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Georgian London, with green squares everywhere April recently wrote Bike-Happy, Ped-Friendly Cities Less Obese , but how do they get that way? George Monbiot writes that “We are, to a surprising extent, what the built environment makes us,” quoting a series of studies which show trees make us more social, quiet areas are friendlier and vegetation reduces crime. He also notes the relationship between urban planning and body mass index: … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Urban Planners Make You Fat
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Image credit: Low Carbon Communities Challenge Even conservatives cheered when one Transition Town received a huge Government check , and with good reason. As part of the massive Low Carbon Communities Challenge the idea, for once, was to explore how grassroots groups could work together with Government, rather than the usual false choice between either top-down or bottom-up approaches to sustainability. I’ve just come acr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Inspiring Film: Uniting Government Policy With Grassroots Action (Video)
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