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Quote of the Day: D.H. Lawrence on the Magnificence of Whales

Photo credit: tk_five_0 They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge
on and on, and dive beneath the icebergs.
The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads, the killers
there they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out of
the sea!”

Solar Tree: New Street Lighting from Ross Lovegrove

Welsh uber-designer Ross Lovegrove has been dabbling in solar design for awhile — his path & garden lighting and solar car prototype are just a few we’ve seen — and now he’s scaling it up to light a whole street. Solar Tree takes a page from its cellulose brethren, “growing” skyward to maximize solar exposure. The project, for the Museum for Angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Vienna, will debut on October 8 at Vienna Design Week.

Hit the jump for more pics and the artists’…

Air New Zealand Biofuelling Through The High Skies

With flying being one of the greatest contributors to growing carbon emissions, airlines are scrambling to find ways to clean up their image

The TH Interview: Michael Ford, CEO of ChooseRenewables

ChooseRenewables, which formally launched earlier this week, features several personalized eco-tools – including the MyEnergy Analyst and MyWatts Renewables Estimator – which allow consumers to evaluate their carbon footprint and view location-based solar and wind energy solutions (which, unfortunately, rarely come cheap). In addition, consumers also…

Sunpark: Moving Forward on Canada’s First Solar Park

Last year we covered the launch of Sunpark Corporation, an organization looking to build Canada

Two Years Ago In TreeHugger: The $100 Laptop “Almost a Reality”

Just to show how things take so much longer than we expect, two years ago Collin wrote”Thanks to Nicholas Negroponte and the Media Lab at MIT, children in developing nations around the world will have access to technology…..The laptops will largely be powered by a side-mounted hand-crank, and can be juiced up with conventional electric current or batteries, when they’re available”

As we all know, it has had a troubled start; the crank is gone (it now is a pull cord) Yves Behar

The Green Parent October/November: The Learning Special

Back in June we wrote about UK-based The Green Parent magazine and its intriguing sounding article on The Diary of a Pregnant Man, and our recent post about Ebay

VIDEO S&WFF: Dream People of the Amazon

In the early 1990s the Amazonian Achuar tribe of southeastern Ecuador learned about the outside world

Facebook To Launch Friend Grouping. Competition Can Suck.

So Facebook will finally allow users to group friends and control information flow based on friend type. For guys like Robert Scoble, who have 5,000 friends (the limit), this may be a way to finally sort through the real friends from the fans. It’s a much needed feature that people have been requesting for a [...]

Have An Old, Broken iPod? Get Cash For It Fast

Sure, you can always sell those old iPods (working or not) on eBay, but it’s far easier to use BuyMyBrokeniPod, a site that promises to buy any model of iPod, working, broken or in between, with no questions asked. You even get an estimate of the price before you send it to them.
Since launching earlier [...]