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Reusable coffee cup collapses to fit in your pocket
Switching from disposable to reusable coffee cups lets you avoid a ton of trash — but it often means you’re left carrying an empty reusable coffee cup, which can’t be thrown away and is cumbersome to cart around. It’s a First-World problem, sure, but why have problems you don’t need to? The 16-ounce Zip Cup […]
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Boy, I sure could go for some battery-powered air conditioner pants
Is that a tiny air conditioner in your pants, or do you just feel lukewarm about me? These cargo pants from Japan have a built-in battery-powered fan that sits in an exterior pocket, blowing cold air on the outside of your thigh. This is maybe not the most effective option, since ideally you want to […]
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On the 110th birthday of air conditioning: Stay cool
It's hot again. It is always hot.
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The Department of Defense wants to put out fires by yelling at them
Much to pundits’ disappointment, you can’t solve most environmental ills just by yelling at them. But, as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has discovered, it does work for one thing: fires. DARPA’s “Instant Fire Suppression” program uses sound to put out flames — and it doesn’t even need to be that loud.
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This tiny electric car folds up for easy parking
The all-electric Fold is normally eight feet long, already smaller than a SmartCar. But it folds up to a mere five feet long for parking, about the size of a shopping cart.
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Apple caves, adds products back into environmental registry
Oddly, the speculated changes to the new MacBook Pro didn't keep the new design from receiving a "gold" rating.
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Global cleantech investment picks itself up off the floor
After a bruising first quarter of 2012, investment globally climbs -- thanks in large part to a spike in China.
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As water dries up, so do crops. Get used to it.
The link between reduced agricultural irrigation and reduced crop yields is becoming increasingly apparent -- and for a more populous world, an increasing problem.
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For the first time, America produces as much electricity from natural gas as from coal
And, remarkably, the U.S. produced more electricity from non-fossil fuels than from either natural gas or coal.
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We’re fighting the wrong fights over energy subsidies
Clean energy subsidies are really very small in the grand scheme of things, says Michael Liebreich of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Consider that we're spending $83 billion a year just to patrol the Straits of Hormuz.
