Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University last week. He gives excellent advice on how to live your life and achieve your most outrageous dreams. It’s a must see for entrepreneurs, and really anyone looking for a refresher course on living life [...]
If mod is your style but dropping $150 on a birdhouse doesn’t do it for you, here’s an awesome, green alternative. Courtesy of two straight lines comes this great DIY project: take a gourd, drill a hole in it, hollow it out, slap some no-VOC paint on it, add a branch and call it good. [...]
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At the Clinton Global Initiative this week, Ecuador pledged to forgo the development of the country’s largest oil reserve in the Amazon basin’s most diverse rainforest located below Yasuni National Park, also home to the Tagaeri-Taromenani indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation
The nation will be essentially kissing an estimated $4.6 million in oil [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
With flying being one of the greatest contributors to growing carbon emissions, airlines are scrambling to find ways to clean up their image
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…
