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A farm in Brooklyn is growing cyborg tomatoes
These veggies can't be programmed to go back in time and kill rebel leaders before they are born (yet). But they can tell their human overlords just how fast and well they're growing.
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Space shuttle’s final journey will kill 400 trees
Space shuttle Endeavour has never been the greenest of projects — I mean, consider how much gas it takes to circle the planet 4,600 times. Sure, blah blah the majesty of the final frontier, but that thing’s tailpipe makes a Chinese factory look like a wind turbine. Now, even in retirement, Endeavour is managing to come up […]
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Fruits of old: Chicago gears up for an urban heirloom fruit orchard
Urban orchards are the new staple of second-wave urban agriculture. Now Chicago is upping the ante with one geared entirely toward heirloom varieties of fruit.
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These charts of record temperatures in New York are trying to tell you something
But we can't for the lives of us figure out what.
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This nine-foot kinetic sculpture of San Francisco is made of over 100,000 toothpicks
Scott Weaver’s “Rolling Through the Bay” is nine feet tall and seven feet wide, i.e. both taller and wider than my bathroom. It’s got four different paths for ping-pong balls to roll through it, tracing “tours” of various San Francisco landmarks. It took 3,000 hours over 35 years to finish. And it’s made of nothing […]
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A natural-gas pipeline grows in Brooklyn
Many of the people of Brooklyn aren't super-excited about it.
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![Julian Castro, left, mayor-elect of San Antonio, pauses during a visit with his brother, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, right, in the Texas House of Representatives Wednesday, May 27, 2009, in Austin, Texas.]()
![Julian Castro, left, mayor-elect of San Antonio, pauses during a visit with his brother, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, right, in the Texas House of Representatives Wednesday, May 27, 2009, in Austin, Texas.]()
Meet Julian and Joaquin Castro, rising Democratic stars with a strong green streak
San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, who'll be giving the keynote at the Democratic convention, and his twin brother Joaquín, who's running for Congress, are both big advocates for clean energy.
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Wall of LEDs lets you paint temporary graffiti with water
Graffiti art can make the urban landscape way more beautiful and interesting, but some people object to permanent decorations on their buildings. Solution: Water Light Graffiti, by artist Antonin Fourneau, working in residence at Digitalarti Artlab. His wall of water-sensitive LEDs allowed visitors in Poitiers, France to create temporary masterpieces using waterguns, spray bottles, hoses, or […]
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Counting the harvest: How numbers can save urban gardens
In 2010, just 67 New York gardens yielded 87,000 pounds of food. Some experts believe data like this is crucial to ensuring the urban agriculture movement takes root.
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Seven years after Katrina, Gulf Coast rail could return bigger than before
Amtrak suspended portions of its Sunset Limited route after Hurricane Katrina washed away swaths of rail. Now mayors from New Orleans to Florida want to bring back more trains than before.
