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Innovation
Smart Highways of the Future
Nov 16th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Studio Roosegaarde wants to create a highway that glows at night, gives you a weather report and charges your electric vehicle... and they're ready to build it as early as next year.
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Eco Living
How to Have a 100-Mile Thanksgiving
Nov 15th, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
Our helpful infographic challenges you to try a 100-mile Thanksgiving, using some key ingredients sourced from within 100 miles of your dinner table. Think of it as an opportunity to celebrate local food, rather than an obligation to source every last ingredient from within 100 miles. From the drive, to the food, to the trash, there are plenty of opportunities to make your feast more sustainable!
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Eco Living
Bikes make life better...
Nov 14th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Bikes Make Life Better wants to show your company how making biking easy and enjoyable for employees can make work more fun and improve health and the bottom line.
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Eco Living
Talking Turkey
Nov 13th, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
The turkey is one part of the Thanksgiving feast where going local is likely to require a bit more forethought, but it’s well worth it. There are many delicious alternatives to the supermarket turkey that has often traveled far from its factory farm to your table. We outline some of the options available for your holiday bird!
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Transportation
The future of oil in Iraq
Nov 12th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
It's important to understand that increasing domestic oil production in America will not necessarily lower prices at the pump... Instead we should focus energy on alternatives to crude oil like natural gas, advanced biofuels and electric vehicles in addition to energy efficiency measures.
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Food System
How high oil prices promote sustainablity in agriculture
Nov 9th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Sustainable America is focused on solutions. Although high oil prices have obvious negative effects on Americans, we are seeing a silver lining in the exciting trends in agriculture that are developing as a result of the high price of oil.
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Food System
Plantagon
Nov 7th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
If this innovative Swedish-American company is right, the future of farming might very well be up! Plantagon is constructing a 12-story vertical greenhouse in Sweden with plans to take their design ideas around the world.
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Food System
Not Industrial, Not Organic...
Nov 5th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Not quite industrial but not fully organic, the Marsden farm study demonstrates a hybrid approach to farming that is just as productive while being better for the environment.
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Innovation
Making Gasoline Appear From Thin Air
Nov 2nd, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
British scientists have successfully produced just over a gallon of gasoline using carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water. Air Fuel Synthesis, the company behind the process, hopes that within two years it will build a larger, commercial-scale plant capable of producing a ton of petrol a day. The global energy implications of literally extracting carbon dioxide from the air to make gasoline are considerable.
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Innovation
Protean Electric wants your wheels to power your car...
Oct 31st, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Protean Electric claims to have a new system that will change how the engine in an electric vehicle works. The technology to power your car might someday be in your wheels...
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