http://youtu.be/YLjzsfgk198 Plastic water bottles have long been recognized as a big problem for the environment, so much so that San Francisco recently banned the sale of bottled water on city property. But a new invention from a group of UK students could offer a solution. Ooho! is a spherical membrane for carrying water, which can... Continue Reading →
Solar Roadways looks to crowdfund $1M, begin manufacturing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNMFKKyFU60 When TreeHugger first covered the Solar Roadways concept, it was with a healthy dose of skepticism. Then they got a $100,000 grant from the Department of Energy, and Lloyd weighed in on whether it could really be viable. Then they built a prototype. Lloyd said nice things. Then they got a $750,000 grant to... Continue Reading →
Watch The Disney Princesses Realize All The Cool Things They Gave Up In The Name Of ‘True Love’
http://youtu.be/CtyOC6ayKoU If you've seen "Frozen," then you know Queen Elsa has no patience for the notion of "love at first sight." First, she wouldn't let her Princess Anna marry a man she had just met — who (spoiler alert!) turned out to be evil — and now she's retroactively bringing the same wisdom to the... Continue Reading →
How Much it Would Cost for the Entire Planet to Switch to Renewable Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsjheb5iNP4 What does it cost to ‘go green’ around the world? An infographic seeks to answer the question. The infographic published by QuickQuid on Visual.ly, which states that the use of non-renewable sources of fuel is not sustainable, begins by revealing the amount of fuel used every year around the world: 8,677m tonnes of oil... Continue Reading →
How America Could End Homelessness in One Year With Something We All Throw Away Every Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPxXH7rCSHQ If America really cared about solving the problem of homelessness among it’s citizenry, here’s an idea that would work. Oh- and that opening line references the fact that as far back as 2011 empty houses in America outnumbered homeless families by five times, according to Amnesty International. Anyway, let’s say the problem with homeless... Continue Reading →
Urban Vegetable Garden System with LED Lighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=extgjud6ME0 Keystone Technology's LED vegetable garden system is a cultivation system for indoor plant factories which uses LED lighting instead of sunlight. The most defining feature of the system on display at the company's showroom in Yokohama is its 3-dimensional use of space. "This is a 5-tiered cultivation system. For smaller heads of lettuce, you... Continue Reading →
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BIONIC ATHLETES WITH EXOSKELETONS, ROBOTIC LIMBS, AND BRAIN-CONTROL DEVICES TO COMPETE IN 2016 CYBATHLON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvKHrDXvUsM While traditional sports only grudgingly accept technological augmentation, the 2016 Cybathlon, a kind of hybrid between the XPRIZE and Olympics, embraces it with both robotic arms. Disabled competitors (or pilots) will compete using assistance devices like powered exoskeletons, robotic prostheses, and brain-control interfaces. We’ve chronicled the continuous evolution of such technologies over the years,... Continue Reading →
Beyond Jeremy Rifkin: How Will the Phase Transition to a Commons Economy Actually Occur?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-iDUcETjvo In his new book, Jeremy Rifkin focuses on the value crisis of contemporary capitalism based on the revolution in marginal costs which destroys the profit rate. He concludes that this will mean that the economy and society will re-orient itself around collaborative commons, with a more peripheric role for the market dynamics. In this,... Continue Reading →
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