environment

Design

The Living Light Sculpture

7:25AM Brian Lam | The Living Light Sculpture looks like a giant metal flower, or a man-made approximation of a jungle canopy with artificial sunlight coming down through its branches. It’s actually a digital map sculpture reporting air quality in Seoul, Korea. More »
Science

Toyota Creates Flowers To Absorb Prius Manufacturing Emissions

4:53AM Adam Frucci | What do you do when the “eco-friendly” car you’re manufacturing is actually horrible for the environment to manufacture? Re-engineer nature, obviously! More »
Music

TerraCycle Recycles Tasty Treat Wrappers Into Speakers

6:00AM Jack Loftus | These recycled speakers are interesting, TerraCycle, but I won’t be 100 per cent impressed until you find a way to turn the World’s Largest Cheeto into a speaker too. More »
Science

Former Microsoft CTO Wants To Dim The Sun With Liquid Sulphur

7:30AM Sean Fallon | Former Microsoft Tech chief Nathan Myhrvold wants to dim the sun’s rays with liquid sulphur pumped from helium-filled balloons. But it’s not like he is sitting behind a desk, tapping his fingers together muttering “excellent” or anything. More »
Random Stuff

Sweden’s New Green Tech: Heating Homes With Bunny Corpses

6:08AM Adam Frucci | “It sure is warm and toasty in here! Is that a wood stove?” I asked. “Why no,” she replied. “I’m burning the corpses of thousands of bunnies.” Then there was an awkward silence. More »
Business

HP Ranked #1 Green Company (What!?)

4:40PM Don Nguyen | Newsweek’s latest Green Rankings gave Hewlett Packard the top position, establishing the firm as the greenest Fortune 500 company this year — a far cry from Greenpeace’s #14 ranking. So what gives? More »
Online

WWW Inventor Is Really Sorry About Destroying So Many Trees

7:33AM Matt Buchanan | Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who usually gets the cred for inventing the world wide web, says there is one thing he’d do differently if he did it all again: He’d dump the double slash that follows http in web addresses. More »
Design

Dow Powerhouse Solar Shingles Could Finally Have You Hugging Trees

8:40AM Sean Fallon | Residential solar has two main obstacles — expense and aesthetics. Even if I could afford it, my landlord probably wouldn’t allow it. All of this could change thanks to Dow Solar Solutions and their Powerhouse shingles. More »
Phones

EcoATM Automates Mobile Phone Recycling Process

7:00AM Jack Loftus | Mobile phone recycling services are ubiquitous today, but this is the first time I’ve seen the process automated and presented in a convenient ATM-like package. More »
Gadgets

Ultrasonic Dishwasher Cavitates Your Dishes To Cleanliness

7:00AM Jack Loftus | Ultrasonic cleaning techniques have been around in the jewellery circles for a while, but they haven’t yet made it into our kitchens. Until now. More »