Field Eco Art Exhibit Features 500 Shoes with Living Green Laces

We all have a friend with a coveted shoe collection, and Inhabitat may just have found its very own lustworthy selection of lace-ups. On show at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair , Field is an installation by Dominic Wilcox featuring 500 eco-friendly Terra Plana shoes.

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BKLYN Designs Sneak Peek: Ecosystems Unveils Modular Snug-It Bed

Inhabitat favorite EcoSystems has just provided us with a sneak-peek of a brand new design they’ll be unveiling at BKLYN Designs 2010 — the Snug-It bed! The bed is based on their innovative connector system, which is capable of creating ready-made furniture that is hassle-free, tool-free and can be flat-packed for efficient shipping.

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The Twins’ Target Field Scores as a Green Building All-Star

Target Field, the Minnesota Twins’ new $545 million ballpark, has earned LEED-Silver certification, becoming the second Major League Baseball stadium to pass muster under the standards set by the U.S. Green Building Council

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!F Film Festival: Thai Director’s Lost ‘Agrarian Utopia’

A still from Agrarian Utopia .

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The Pros (and Cons) of the Non-CO2 Case for Sustainability

Image credit: Global Spin From my musings on whether environmentalism is a movement or not to Brian’s piece on why religious language on Global Warming is a mistake , it’s common for commenters to argue that greens focus too much on climate change. After all, everyone can get behind energy efficiency, cleaner air and water, and prestine nature—whether or not they beli… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mann is Off the Hook, So Let’s Look at the Real Crime [Video of Mann]

Michael Mann, the somewhat infamous climate scientist from Penn State, shouldn’t be so infamous after all, we find out yet another time! “An academic inquiry into the so-called ‘climategate’ email scandal has concluded that a well-known U.S. scientist [Mann] did not directly or indirectly falsify data in his research,” according to Mike De Souza of the National Post

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A Virtual Tour of Tomorrow’s Super-Sustainable Farm (Part 2)

Part 1 of this post described what you could see while riding along in the tractor on a super-sustainable farm of the near future (only text in red describes things that are not already fully available to farmers).   Our guide is Sarah, a 24 year-old intern on the Gordon family farm in Iowa

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A Virtual Tour of Tomorrow’s Super-Sustainable Farm (Part 1)

Today we will be touring a farm of the future that employs the state-of-the-art farming methods that have been developed over decades of effort by growers, academic researchers, extension agents, and technology companies. Actually most of what we will see is already possible in 2010 and only the things highlighted in red require some change to become fully available

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A Virtual Tour of Tomorrow’s Super-Sustainable Farm (Part 1)

Today we will be touring a farm of the future that employs the state-of-the-art farming methods that have been developed over decades of effort by growers, academic researchers, extension agents, and technology companies. Actually most of what we will see is already possible in 2010 and only the things highlighted in red require some change to become fully available. Our tour guide is Sarah – a 24 year-old intern who works on the Gordon family farm in North-Central Iowa.

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Just What We Needed Dept: Birdwatchcam Takes Pictures For Birdwatchers Short On Time

Images via Designboom Touted as a device for avid birdwatchers who don’t have time to get out in the field, the Birdwatchercam can be mounted to a tree to track your feathered friends. But, if you’re an avid birdwatcher, wouldn’t you rather see the birds? Well, if you lack the time, here’s a gadget you might be interested in.

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