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Your car might be made out of recycled beans, pants, and money
Garbage is bad. Oil spills are bad. But when you can use them to make cars, they become kinda useful.
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Oysters could have helped save New York from Sandy
They're basically the coral reefs of the Northeast.
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Superstorm Sandy
Much of New Jersey, New York City and elsewhere definitely got hit very hard by Superstorm Hurricane Sandy yesterday: several feet of sand covering roads close to the ocean in Point Pleasant and probably elsewhere—50 or so homes burned down in Queens—extensive flooding of the lower Manhattan NYC subways—7 million or more customers without power—blizzard […]
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New York City’s latest massive disaster
The most effective predictor of who would be spared the worst impacts: elevation.
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The Netherlands is getting a glow-in-the-dark highway
This is the Netherlands, which means it’s only a matter of time before they put this technology to work in bike lanes, too.
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The most stunning images from monster storm Sandy
Well, that was a hell of a storm. Here's what it looked like up close.
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Here is a toilet that’s good at soccer
Never at a loss to create something totally weird, two Japanese companies have built a goalkeeping toilet. And it's supposed to be green somehow.
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The Great Pumpkin chat: Join us for a live discussion on Halloween
Curious about organic jack-o'-lanterns, the canned pumpkin industry, and the role the gourd can play in the good food movement? Check out a replay of our conversation with pumpkin expert Cindy Ott.
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Your Sandy symbolism of the morning: An oil tanker stranded on Staten Island
The 150-foot-long vessel washed up on the island's eastern edge last night.
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Mitch Lowe enlists an army of Zuckerbergs to save the planet
Lowe’s business accelerator launches companies that help us make better use of clean energy, from smart meters to sharable electric scooters.
