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Gearhead’s lament: What’s to be done with last year’s skis?
Each year, skiers and snowboarders chuck mountains of old gear into the trash. One man wants to give our castoffs a second life.
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Solar panels made out of grass clippings
An MIT scientist has developed a quick and dirty way to harness solar power using “anything green, even grass clippings.” So basically, solar panels made out of yard waste. This technology is way, way, way, way below the efficiency of commercial solar panels: It converts 0.1 percent of solar energy into power. Commercial solar panels […]
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Here are car ads for you to yell about
Watch some of the most irritating -- from a "car ubiquity" perspective -- spots from last night's Super Bowl.
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‘Smart paint’ warns you when stuff’s about to break, so you can fix it
Someday we’ll fix infrastructure and the environment in the same way that Arizona suburbanites fix their lawns: By slapping on a coat of paint. Science has already made great strides on carbon-eating paint, and the kind of paint that can make windows into solar panels. And now researchers at at Glasgow’s University of Strathclyde have developed paint that […]
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Couch surfers unite! Big business stomps on the sharing economy
Last year, the rental car industry smacked down car-sharing companies in Washington. Now, it appears that the hotel biz may have it out for folks who rent out their spare bedrooms via Airbnb. It’s all fun and games until greedy corporations get involved.
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Four ways enviros can keep Walmart in the hot seat
The world's biggest retailer has gotten an undeserved free pass from many environmentalists. It's time to take a tougher line and set a higher standard, argues Stacy Mitchell in the conclusion to her series on Walmart's greenwashing.
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Why Apple should pour money into clean energy
Google's success at making real money on its green investments suggests to Marc Gunther of Greenbiz that every tech company with gigantic cash holdings -- i.e. Apple and Microsoft -- should be parking at least some of them in targeted clean energy investments.
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Newly discovered fungus eats plastic
A group of Yale students, poking around in the jungles of Ecuador, has unearthed a type of fungus that digests otherwise-unkillable plastics.
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Russians could not be more psyched about ice-free Arctic
The former empire is hoping to bring back its glory days by reviving a Soviet-era shipping route along its Arctic coast.
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What corporate logos does a 5-year-old know?
This video, in which a 5-year-old rattles off corporate logos while sounding exactly like Marcel the Shell, is simultaneously adorable and sobering.