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House fit for a green: Sustainable home construction booms
With the value of the residential green building market expected to grow fivefold by 2016, builders say going green is great for their business.
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NASA is developing green rocket fuel
Hydrazine propellant is super toxic and dangerously unstable, so NASA is going to spend up to $50 million apiece to test alternatives.
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The Facebook of ride-sharing has arrived
Got a road trip coming up? Why not use Ridejoy to save yourself the gas money and maybe make a new friend in the process?
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Walmart’s biggest green feat: Putting sustainability on the corporate agenda
Walmart has moved sustainability from the fringe to the forefront of business concerns, showing the drill-baby-drill crowd that eco-friendly choices can help America prosper and compete.
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The Prius C: Not a swan, but a damn fine duck
Meet the newest addition to the Prius family, and find out how well it performs.
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Why buildings haven’t gotten more efficient in 20 years
Everything single part of a building has become significantly more energy efficient over the past 20 years, yet buildings are using the same amount of energy they always have. Why?
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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 […]
