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This is What People Power Looks Like

  Carbon dioxide might be getting close to the infamous 400 parts per million (ppm) but here at Mosaic we’re finding hope in what we’re calling the 800 investors per million. That’s the number of people who have invested in our largest solar project ever, a 487 kW ... keep reading

Written by Lisa Curtis/Solar Mosaic this week, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Design, Economics, Industry & Business, Solar

Green Business Innovations Working Towards the Greater Good

  It’s a major draw to customers when a company has a dedicated green cause. Recent government guidelines and incentives in both the United Kingdom and United States have encouraged companies to develop their climate-wary schemes in order to reduce the amount of pollution being emitted by their industry. Some ... keep reading

Written by David White this week, about Clean Technologies, Design, Industry & Business

Living Green Infrastructure Declaration’

An online Living Green Infrastructure Declaration has been created to encourage government and the private sector to plan and build greener, healthier, more beautiful communities. Living green infrastructure advocates, including Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, LEAF, Ontario Parks Association, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, and Landscape Ontario are encouraging citizens ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Design, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior (1 comment)

Hello to hello lemon

Our decision to start hello lemon was motivated entirely by our desire to lead adifferent kind of lifestyle. In the beginning we didn’t set out to create a greeting card business – that happened quite organically. We simply knew that working at traditional jobs wasn’t going to provide ... keep reading

Written by Tim and Merinda this month, about Design, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior

Christchurch's Pallet Pavilion for Another Year - On PledgeMe

Christchurch in New Zealand  is still in a massive rebuild . About 70 per cent of the central city has been demolished after the earthquake in February 2011 and the city is seeing amazing and innovative concepts popping up everywhere. The container mall, and Gapfiller and Greening the Rubble projects everywhere ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Design, Finance & Money, Lifestyle & Behavior

A Streetwise Plane -Wow !

It's a bird...it's a plane ...No, its Terrafugia-a streetwise plane. keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Design, Transport, Travel

Airport Hires Goats for Vegetation Management

The Chicago Department of Aviation (CAD) has hired a herd of goats to provide sustainable vegetation management at O’Hare International Airport. The city’s department of aviation awarded a $100,000 contract to Central Commissary Holdings, which owns the small grazing herd and operates several restaurants including Chicago’s ... keep reading

Written by Environmental Leader this month, about Agriculture & Food, Design, Industry & Business, Travel

A Will for the Woods

  http://vimeo.com/62452617     At this year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival the  Audience Award went to the documentary feature "A Will for the Woods". This was a very small budget  project from a team of first-time filmmakers, and it looks at  the issue of eco-friendly "green burial" practices ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Lifestyle & Behavior

Ideas Colliding: IBM Research Combines Strategies from Multiple Industries to Create a Super Solar Collector

  Great men, like great epochs, are explosive material in whom tremendous energy has been accumulated; their prerequisite has always been historically and physiologically, that a protracted assembling, accumulating, economizing and preserving has preceded them – that there has been no explosion for a long time - Nietzsche. Scientific breakthroughs often follow a ... keep reading

Written by Rayna Gordon-Hellman this month, about Clean Technologies, Design, Economics, Industry & Business, Solar (1 comment)

Poison lips? Troubling Levels of Toxic Metals Found in Cosmetics

Damn- now lipstick too! A new analysis of the contents of lipstick and lip gloss may cause you to pause before puckering. Researchers at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health tested 32 different lipsticks and lip glosses commonly found in drugstores and department stores. They detected lead, cadmium, chromium ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Children and Families, Design, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior

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