ANIMALS - Animal rights group aims to protect geese in NYC from slaughter
GooseWatch NYC volunteers hope to stop goose killing in the city's parks ...
ANIMALS - Nature Blows My Mind! 3D printing found in nature with this strange cocoon
Have you ever seen a cocoon quite like this?! Looking more like a net, or open-weave basket, this cocoon has an interesting reason for its surprising structure ...
ANIMALS - What it's like to photograph the world's biggest shark [Video]
Photographer and filmmaker Tom Campbell tells us what it's like to get in the water with a whale shark, and try to fit the whole experience in the camera's frame ...
BOOKS - Rob Hopkins on The Power of Just Doing Stuff
The founder of the Transition Movment is out with another book. This time, he takes a global look at how grassroots community efforts may provide a blueprint for systemic, cultural change ...
EARTH - Archaeologists use lasers to find a lost city
Australian researchers used LIDAR, the aerial laser technology, to rediscover the city of Mahendraparvata in Cambodia ...
ENERGY - NRG Energy unveils disaster relief vehicle with solar array, Wi-Fi, and satellite service
This truck and trailer delivers power, shelter, Wi-Fi connectivity, charging stations, and communications capabilities to the scene of disaster relief efforts ...
ENERGY - Vodafone sleeping bag turns body heat Into clean energy
The Recharge sleeping bag, developed with help from the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, uses a prototype "Power Pocket" to harvest thermoelectric energy ...
GARDENS - Overgrown garden shed shows beauty of wild design
Green Box by Italian architects act_romegialli shows that good design doesn't need to be clean and controlled ...
SUSTAINABILITY - New York's poor get urban farm in bid to fight obesity
New York unveiled a giant vegetable garden Wednesday in the Brooklyn borough's largest public housing development, in a bid to fight a growing obesity epidemic among the poor ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-york-poor-urban-farm-o
URBAN - A little bit of extra height makes a big difference in a small apartment
3XA architects show how it's done in 312 square feet ...
URBAN - Happy World Sauntering Day
Walkability is important, but there has to be more: Flâneurabilit ...
URBAN - Paris designers create "Insectopia" bug houses
This hotel for insects was created to promote urban biodiversity ...
URBAN - Should prefabs be glued instead of screwed (or nailed) together?
Sometimes it seems we are developing solutions in search of a problem. This might be one of them ...
URBAN - The Change Initiative in Dubai is declared "the most sustainable building in the world"
They have a point, 107 of them actually. But call me dubious ...
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