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Amazon appears poised to once again change the face of the book publishing industry. As if the Kindle wasn’t enough, Amazon’s new vision for e-readers could turn your Kindle into a full-blown library, with access to thousands of book titles. According to a report released in the Wall Street Journal, Amazon aims to do to book lending what Netflix has already done to movies by allowing users to pay a flat subscriber fee, and subsequently have access a large selection of books.

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I remember when I first got serious about running, and I went to a shoe store and the workers put me through a litany of tests: run on a treadmill; put your foot in water, and then stand on a piece of paper; walk around barefoot, you name it. The science of running shoes has become complex to the point of absurdity, but a sincere examination of how to make a more environmentally friendly running shoe has been mostly lost under all the noise. Most companies are satisfied to tweak their packaging, or else segregate eco-friendly shoes to the niche market of barefoot running shoes. The exception to the rule is Brooks Sports, Inc, with the Green Silence, the first successful running shoe that maintains comfort and performance, and best of all, minimizes its environmental impact.

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The world’s coolest commute is about to get even cooler, and greener. That’s because the Colorado-based Green Gondola Campaign is aiming to turn the gondola that connects Telluride with neighboring Mountain Village into a solar-powered facility. The initiative is also re-defining carbon offsetting in the process into a reliable, accurate and transparent system.

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With bike sharing and committed bike lanes on the rise, it seems like biking would be the no-brainer option for an eco-friendly commute, and yet some critics ponder if biking is actually better than taking the bus or a cab. But fear not, bike riders of the world. The evidence is in at Slate.com, and it is convincing: biking is the greenest way to get to work.

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In London-based social-entrepreneur Andy Marks‘ world there are plenty of ways to recycle, reduce and reuse even the most unlikely materials. Focusing in on old bed linens from the most luxurious of hotels to the coziest of homes, Marks’ company, Sleeping Bags, has a different vision for these retired bed sheets over dumpster doom: artistic tote bags.

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A credit card-sized plastic chip created by researchers at Columbia University could radically increase the availability of diagnostic tests able to identify HIV and syphillis in the developing world. The device, known as the mChip, costs only $1 to produce, and requires a simple pinprick of blood to accurately determine whether or not an individual has HIV.

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