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Beautiful P+R building can house hundreds of bicycles in the Netherlands

Park and ride buildings aren’t often beautiful, but this recently completed facility in Zutphen is a stunning exception. MoederscheimMoonen Architects created the stylish P+R facility near a railway station in the Netherlands’ Noorderhaven district. Built to reference the town’s industrial past, the contemporary...
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Artist's incredibly realistic stone animals are begging to be cuddled

In a world of angst-driven, politically-minded art, stone artist Akie Nakata is giving us some artwork we'd just love to cuddle. The Japanese artist paints cutesy animals onto smooth rocks, creating images so realistic it's hard to fight the urge to reach out and pet them. Nakata starts her artistic...
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Stunning mountain passive house uses burnt cedar cladding

Tucked into the sloping mountainside near historic Park City, Utah sits a modern, passive solar dream home marked by a plunging roof that slices through its middle. The 2100 square foot residence designed by Salt Lake City-based Axis Architects features a bevy of environmentally-friendly features, including...
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New biofuel from wastewater slashes vehicle CO2 emissions by 80%

An innovative new project called LIFE+ Methamorphosis is pioneering a new sustainable biofuel for cars. Car company SEAT and water management company Aqualia have transformed wastewater into the alternative fuel. Powered with this biofuel produced during one year at a treatment plant in Spain, a vehicle could...
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Rammed earth school in Vietnam blooms like a colorful jungle flower

The far reaches of northern Vietnam are beautiful but heartbreakingly poor. Children of the Hmong ethnic minority who live in the villages routinely suffer from lack of access to healthcare and education. Vietnamese architecture firm 1+1>2 has provided a ray of hope for those in Lung Luong village in the remote...
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Diapers, sanitary products could provide alternative fuel source

A waste-management company has developed a new, patented process that turns sanitary products, baby diapers, incontinence pads, and other so-called "absorbent hygiene products" into power. PHS Group, which serves 90,000 households, schools, offices, and retirement homes across the United Kingdom and Ireland, says...
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2017 Honda Clarity fuel cell vehicle is ready for the mainstream

Fuel-cell vehicles are still pretty foreign to most of us, especially if you live outside of California. Automakers like General Motors, Hyundai, Toyota and Honda have been working on the technology for decades, but we’ve yet to see a model that could bring the technology more mainstream. Toyota got close with...

Fuel-cell vehicles are still pretty foreign to most of us, especially if you live outside of California. Automakers like General Motors, Hyundai,...
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Google Street View takes you inside the fiery depths of an active volcano

Have you ever seen an active volcano up close? Most of us haven't had the opportunity, but now thanks to Google Street View, you can glimpse the fiery depths of one the world's largest boiling lava lakes. Two explorers repelled down into the Marum crater on the island on Ambrym in Vanuatu, a country of islands...

Have you ever seen an active volcano up close? Most of us haven't had the opportunity, but now thanks to Google Street View, you can glimpse...
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San Diego brewery unveils beer made from 100% recycled wastewater

San Diego is aiming to to become the most environmentally sustainable city in the United States. As part of its ambitious Climate Action Plan, last year the city council unanimously approved a $3 billion initiative to recycle wastewater for drinking. Now the city is demonstrating that the pure water program can...

San Diego is aiming to to become the most environmentally sustainable city in the United States. As part of its ambitious Climate Action Plan,...
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Artisanal clay pots from Egypt can water your plants for up to a month

Gardeners who travel will love these absorbent clay pots from Egypt. Modeled after the Olla, an ancient ceramic pot prevalent throughout North Africa, the small vessels are designed to water plants for weeks at a time--using nothing but gravity. Clayola founder Rami Halim says 20 liters (5 gallons) of water can...

Gardeners who travel will love these absorbent clay pots from Egypt. Modeled after the Olla, an ancient ceramic pot prevalent throughout North...
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Autonomous robotic garden drives itself around the city in search of sun

[gallery_extend] http://vimeo.com/163436492 J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ents, a race of anthropomorphic tree creatures, belong to the fantasy world, but the moving and autonomous Hortum machina, B is rooted firmly in reality. Designed by UCL students William Victor Camilleri and Danilo Sampaio under the supervision...

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New $150 gadget lets your smartphone detect cancer with laboratory precision

While smartphone spectrometers are already being used to help detect cancer, they have only been able to evaluate one sample at a time, making the work slow and tedious. A breakthrough by a Washington State University research team led to the creation of a low-cost multichannel smartphone spectrometer that uses...

While smartphone spectrometers are already being used to help detect cancer, they have only been able to evaluate one sample at a time, making...