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Paperless Passports The Future of Airport Security? e-Passports with AMOLED Screens Announced at CeBIT 2010 (Video)
Paperless Passports The Future of Airport Security? e-Passports with AMOLED Screens Announced at CeBIT 2010 (Video)
Screenshot via youtube video German company Bundesdruckerei showed off what it is calling the world’s first e-passport equipped with an AMOLED display at CeBIT 2010. It could be the future of airport security, ditching paper passports for one driver’s license-like card that can display a...
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Massive Gap Widens Between Republican and Democrat’s Belief in Climate Change
Massive Gap Widens Between Republican and Democrat’s Belief in Climate Change
All charts and graphs via EnviroKnow I’ve written before about the ever-increasing politicization of climate change –the thesis that the scientifically backed consensus that human activity is warming the planet is now treated as a political belief isn’t a hard one to prove. But just...
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Chinese Zoo Accused of Letting 11 Rare Siberian Tigers Starve to Death
Chinese Zoo Accused of Letting 11 Rare Siberian Tigers Starve to Death
Photo: CC The Food Was Too Expensive… Sad story of the day: 11 rare and endangered Siberian Tigers starved to death while confined to “cold, cramped metal cages” at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in China’s North-East. The deaths took place in the past three months, with...
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Can One Call Mitch Kapor’s Berkeley House "Green"?
Can One Call Mitch Kapor’s Berkeley House "Green"?
Kapor Klein House model, Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects There is a fight going on in Berkeley, over the construction of a house for Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus and creator of Lotus 123, the program that made personal computers useful. Neighbours, architects and others call it “absurd”...
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Posted by in Environment, Green on 03 10th, 2010 | No Comments
BBC’s Inside Out Airs Expose on The Impacts of UK’s e-Waste on Developing Countries
BBC’s Inside Out Airs Expose on The Impacts of UK’s e-Waste on Developing Countries
Photo via dieselboii e-Waste is finally starting to go mainstream and the issue is making its way to television viewers. While some examples of e-waste on TV are horrifying, like the A mazing Race episode that made light of dumps and the extremely hazardous environments in which e-waste “recyclers”...
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Cathy Erway on The Art of Eating In: The TreeHugger Interview
Cathy Erway on The Art of Eating In: The TreeHugger Interview
Photo via Goodlifer Cathy Erway is an acclaimed food writer and sustainability activist based in New York City. Two or so years ago, she renounced the consumptive culinary culture of the big apple, and set out to eat in–for every meal. An ambitious undertaking in a city practically built on dining...
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New Charging Method Could Mean Exponentially Faster Battery Recharge Times
New Charging Method Could Mean Exponentially Faster Battery Recharge Times
Photo of batteries via Moria , molecules via Technology Review Chemists have figured out a new way to charge up electronics that drastically speeds up how long it takes to fill up to full. Ibrahim Abou Hamad at Mississippi State University show off a new way to recharge lithium ion batteries that could...
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Powering Up Electronics With Cotton Fabric? It’s Happening.
Powering Up Electronics With Cotton Fabric? It’s Happening.
Photo via WonderMike Cornell University is about to have a fashion show. And at that fashion show will be clothing made of fabric that is simply electrifying. No, really. Juan Hinestroza, assistant professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, has developed cotton threads that, while remaining flexible...
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BP Still Ranked Greenest Oil Company by Greenopia - Citgo Brings Up the Rear
BP Still Ranked Greenest Oil Company by Greenopia - Citgo Brings Up the Rear
photo: BP Greenopia has updated their guide to the greenest oil companies –though it may seem like it, it’s not entirely an oxymoron–and BP is still on top. The other positions have shifted a bit, with Sunoco and Hess taking second and third place:… Read the full story on TreeHugger...
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69 Bear Invasions In New Jersey Last Year: Hunt On
69 Bear Invasions In New Jersey Last Year: Hunt On
Dog wounded in New Jersey black bear attack. Image credit: News 12, video. Without getting into what constitutes a black bear “home invasion” or “pet attack” incident, all would agree that black bears frequently in the yard, tipping trash cans, smashing the chicken coup, attacking...
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