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New App Brings Global Extreme Weather Events to Your iPad: Xweather

May 18, 2012

A dynamic app combining an Earth browser with multimedia resources brings near-realtime updates on Earth-changing events

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Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei has a New Work Made out of Old Chinese Temples

May 18, 2012

This brave and controversial artist has a new piece in Washington that is a statement about destruction and the state.

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Simple Swing Makes Any City Spot a Playground

May 18, 2012

A minimalist, easy to setup swing lets you have more fun anywhere you go.

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World’s First Ethanol Cooking Fuel Plant Opens in Mozambique

May 17, 2012

Part of a venture aimed at knocking charcoal out of the market in Africa, the Dondo biofuel plant turns locally grown cassava into ethanol.

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US Proposes More Tariffs For Chinese Solar Power Modules

May 17, 2012

For companies that participated in the Dept of Commerce’s investigation the preliminary tariffs are roughly 31%, and much higher for those that didn’t.

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Last 60 Years In Australia Have Been Warmest in Past Millennium

May 17, 2012

Natural factors alone cannot explain the warming, “suggesting a strong influence of human-caused climate change” in the region.

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Tesla to Begin Repaying Department of Energy Loans by End of 2012

May 17, 2012

Against all the odds, Tesla is about this ship the first Model S electric sedans to customers and the company will begin repaying its debts by the end of this year.

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Organic vs. Conventional: Can We Feed the World?

May 17, 2012

Population growth is a huge strain on the environment. Reducing family size is vital to saving the Earth, no matter how much the notion upsets some folks. Feeding the world‘s 7,013,987,392 people is a challenge and often cited as to why organic food is not as green as consumers believe.  In my opinion, this is [...]

Organic vs. Conventional: Can We Feed the World? is a post from: Eco Child's Play

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The Fibonacci Sequence As Seen in Flowers

May 17, 2012

Are nature’s patterns as random as we might think? The Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical series known about since at least the 12th century, makes us believe otherwise.

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Portland’s Bikeways: 30 Years of Evolution in 1 Map

May 17, 2012

It shows the evolution of Portland’s bikeways from 1980 to the present, and is a good visual reminder that great biking cities are made deliberately; they don’t start out already formed, people have to put in the effort of making them bike friendly.

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