Hundreds of years ago, it used to eat the bottoms of sailing ships. Now, it could help keep the bio-energy industry aflo…
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17 Living Roofs: the High Tech Green Future of Architecture
We’ve always thought we had roofs covered. They had to be barren, hostile places the rain and the wildlife slid fr…
17 Living Roofs: the High Tech Green Future of Architecture
We’ve always thought we had roofs covered. They had to be barren, hostile places the rain and the wildlife slid fr…
Firewinder: When the Wind Glows
Firewinder is a swirling corkscrew of LED lights that spins when the wind catches it, getting brighter the faster it tur…
The Best Places to See Meteor Showers in 2009
Over the next few months, as winter wanes and the night air warms up enough to be comfortably breathed, it’s time …
Can Modern Medicine Make Room for a Little Horticulture?
For most people who’ve been stuck in a hospital on the slow and boring road to recovery, the thing they say they a…
The New Side of Sunshine
Our relationship with the sun is a complicated one. Take sun tans. Nobody’s sure how it happened, but sometime ove…
Tiki Modern: Carrying a Torch for Polynesian Panache
Okay, Listen up Daddy-O’s. Raise your coconut shells if you’ve grooved on the following: The Tonga Room at t…