Big Bambú: A Cresting Wave Hits New York City

Image Credit: Nucho via Flickr Bamboo gets used in a lot of ways, from underwear to flooring to windmills .

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Amazing Natural Packaging: The Wombat’s Super Butt!

If you’re into marsupials (and who isn’t?), my favorite, hands-down, is the wombat. Not just because they are vegan and terribly, terribly cute, or because they’re a bit lazy and are known Down Under for their ability to find shortcuts between A and B whenever possible — but because they have developed an incredible physical adaptation: The reinforced rump. When a predator attacks a wombat, it runs to its burrow and uses its tough cartilage-filled bum to block the hole.

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Does Morality Matter in Saving the Planet?

Image credit: After Gutenberg When I posted a video of a mainstream farmer trying to green his operations , commenter Adam suggested that he was just doing it for economic reasons. That’s an observation that gets bandied about a lot here at TreeHugger—that this company, or that individual, is not really interested in true sustainability. They are just in it for themselves.

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Few Green Highlights at Istanbul Fashion Week

A design by Özgür Masur from Argande ’s 2010-2011 fall-winter collection.

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The Week in Pictures: Déjà Vu. Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf, Climate Change Blamed for Melting Himalayan Glaciers, and More (Slideshow)

It’s Déjà Vu all over again: An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP’s massive oil spill. In other green news this week, the US Geological Survey has released a new report on the state of glacier retreat in the Himalaya, stating that “Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change”; Animal Planet’s new miniseries Blood Dolphin delves deeper into the dolphin hunts in Japan; and we reveal exclusive photos of secret titan redwood trees, located …

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Amazing Urban Concepts Reinvent India’s Skyline

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MIT Develops Self-Assembling Solar Cells

Get ready for super-charged solar cells ! MIT researchers announced this week that they have developed self-assembling solar cells that can be broken down and rebuilt repeatedly, much like plant cells . The solar cells constantly renew themselves, which means the technology could ultimately lead to longer-lasting commercial cells. Read the rest of MIT Develops Self-Assembling Solar Cells http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: chloroplast , green design , Gulf oil spill , MIT , plant cells , Solar cells

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Quirky and Comfy, Stackable Stools Made From Cork

We love seating arrangements that inspire people to play , but these stools designed by Marina68 are especially awesome thanks to their quirky nature. Set side-by-side or stacked on top of one another, these charming little stools look like a swarm of cute critters ready to run around the room

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Hyundai To Sell Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars In 2012

In a bid to one-up their competition, Hyundai has announced that they will sell hydrogen fuel cell cars starting in 2012 – three years before Toyota, Honda and the rest of the competition.

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America’s First Zero Energy School to Open This Month

Richardsville Elementary, a new LEED Platinum School in Kentucky, is getting extra credit by being the first zero energy school in the nation! Opening this month to much anticipation, the facility is a cornucopia of green building strategies and efficient technologies. The bread and butter of the school’s success are tremendous efficiency gains coupled with a 300 kW thin-film solar array . Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects have done and astonishing job of reducing the building’s energy consumption to one fourth of a typical school without breaking the bank

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