ANIMALS - Death to All Bees! (And Other Great Videos)
"Bees. Who Needs Them?" An anti-bee propaganda film captures our imagination, as do these other great bee-related videos ...
ART - African artist El Anatsui makes wall hangings out of recycled materials
This African artist uses recycled bits and pieces for his massive wall hanging ...
ART - The final weekend at Arts & Ideas
Here is a look at what is happening during the final two days of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Friday & Saturday, June 28 & 29. For more information, visit the festival's website ...
http://news.yale.edu/2013/06/28/final-weekend-arts-idea
BOOKS - Books of The Times: Colum McCann's 'TransAtlantic' Explores Ireland and U.S.
In "TransAtlantic," Colum McCann uses a historic nonstop flight as a narrative anchor to take a kaleidoscopic look at more than 150 years of American and Irish history ...
http://www-nc.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/books/colum-mccanns-tra
CLIMATE - Human-Caused Global Warming Behind Record Hot Australian Summer
Australia's summer of 2012 was known as "the angry summer," with record heat, extreme bush fires and flooding striking the nation in quick succession. [More]-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-cause
EARTH - A Year in the Life of a Green Planet
[More]-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery_directory.cfm?phot
ECONOMICS - INSTANT MBA: A Culture Of Trust Is Directly Connected To Productivity Levels
Today's advice comes from Don Peppers, founding partner of Peppers & Rogers Group at TeleTech via LinkedIn. "If you want your company to be successful, you need to cultivate a culture of trust, which will encourage your employees to work better with each other and to enjoy doing it. The general level of trust within your firm is directly connected to your firm's productivity and competitive success." Peppers says that employees are encour ...
ECONOMICS - If You Live In New York And You Rent, You're Paying A Huge Tax You Don't Even Know About
If you live in New York City, you probably know that your income taxes are high. A combined city and state tax rate of 10.4% kicks in at just $22,000 of taxable income for a single person. You probably don't know that New York City has some of the country's highest taxes on apartment buildings-and if you're not subject to rent control, much of that cost is flowing through to you as a renter. Not all property taxes are high here: New York ...
ENERGY - Home Solar PV In Europe Not Subject To VAT (Consumption Tax), EU Court Rules
Editor's Note: This is quite big news (if I'm understanding the ruling correctly), but I haven't seen much coverage of it. Perhaps that's just because it's related to the EU and I don't follow many EU-based sites. No VAT (consumption tax) on home solar PV could be a big step forward. (Correct us if we're missing something.) Solar photovoltaic systems purchased for household use within the European Union will no longer be subject to any VAT ( .. ...
HOMES - Japanese Students Create Brilliant Straw Home Heated by Compost
Read the rest of Japanese Students Create Brilliant Straw Home Heated by CompostPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "energy efficiency", A Recipe To Live, Architecture, Botanical, green materials, Japan, LIXIL, recycling / compost, Straw, Waseda Universit .. ...
MUSIC - 5 Bands You Should Be Listening To This Weekend
There's always so much great music coming out from week to week and sometimes it's just hard to keep up with it all. Lucky for you, we at FILTER are happy to scour through all the music out there and compile an easy list for you to check out. This week, we have gathered some of our favorites from all over the world that we thought would be worth a listen. We take you from Iceland to Australia in hopes that you'll discover some new music across bo ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-bands-for-summer-music-20
MUSIC - Showing Off the Accordion's Hip Side
The Accordions Around the World festival this summer offers accordionists a chance to shed a stodgy image ...
http://www-nc.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/arts/music/showing-off-
PERMACULTURE - Compost pickup reaches New York's suburbs
The Town of Bethlehem tests out a weekly composting service ...
SCIENCE - Large-scale quantum chip validated
A team of scientists at USC has verified that quantum effects are indeed at play in the first commercial quantum optimization processor ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-large-scale-quantum-chip-valida
SCIENCE - Michele Dufault Endowment for Yale Women in Science established
Yale has established the Michele Dufault Endowment for Yale Women in Science, a $14 million fund named in honor of a Yale College senior who died in 2011 in a tragic accident at Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, while pursuing her dreams as a scientist ...
http://news.yale.edu/2013/06/28/michele-dufault-endowment-ya
SCIENCE - On the hunt for neutrinos
Every second, trillions of particles called neutrinos pass through your body. These particles have a mass so tiny it has never been measured, and they interact so weakly with other matter that it is nearly impossible to detect them, making it very difficult to study their behavior.Since arriving at MIT in 2005, Joseph Formaggio, an associate professor of physics, has sought new ways to measure the mass of neutrinos. Nailing down that value - and ...
SCIENCE - The Limits of Psychophysics, and Physics
Psychophysics secretly dominates our social sciences. Such physics-ing often improves experimental practice, but its mathematical methods face new challenges. As every infant knows, but too many...-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/2013/06/
URBAN - Aaron D'Innocenzo Built this Green Desert Home by Himself in Eight Years
Read the rest of Aaron D'Innocenzo Built this Green Desert Home by Himself in Eight YearsPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "energy efficiency", "natural materials", Aaron D'Innocenzo, California, desert architecture, desert homes in California, eco design, green desert homes, green design, Jackrabbit Wash, Joshua Park, mojave desert, sustainable desig .. ...
URBAN - Austria's Blob-Shaped Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum Generates its Own Solar Power
Read the rest of Austria's Blob-Shaped Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum Generates its Own Solar PowerPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "solar energy", Architecture, art museum, blob, Colin Fournier, energy efficient, graz, Kunsthaus Graz, photovoltaic units, Sir Peter Cook, Solar Power, vienn .. ...
URBAN - Can we get rid of plastic foam in our buildings?
It's the next big trend in green building, but it is expensive, difficult and people think you are nuts ...
URBAN - Dogchitecture: Mexican Designers Create Amazing Architectural Homes For Dogs
Read the rest of Dogchitecture: Mexican Designers Create Amazing Architectural Homes For DogsPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Animals, Architecture For Dogs, BNKR, DIY, dogs, Esteban Suarez, Exhibition, Felipe Fadón, green materials, mexico, Nuugi, Photos by Dogchitecture, Recycled Materials, shelters, tiny home .. ...
URBAN - Plus-Shaped Pool is One Step Closer to Floating on NYC's East River
An amazing floating pool is being planned for NYC's East River, but it needs your help. Called the + Pool because of its plus-shaped design, the waterbody already has the backing of many New York officials but it needs extra financing to complete a test model this summer. In exchange for contributions to its Kickstarter campaign, + Pool is offering personalized tiles to be permanently placed on the walls of the pool when it's complete as well as ...
URBAN - Rusty Tin Shed Transformed Into Beautiful Two-Story Studio in Sydney
Read the rest of Rusty Tin Shed Transformed Into Beautiful Two-Story Studio in SydneyPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", australia, corrugated metal, eco apartment, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, material reuse, raffaello rosselli, Recycled Materials, recycled metal, rental, shed, studio, studio apartment, Sustainable Building, sustainable design, sydney, tin shed, tinshed, vaca ...
URBAN - Sculptural Wooden House in Sweden Bends to Make Way for an Oak Tree
Read the rest of Sculptural Wooden House in Sweden Bends to Make Way for an Oak TreePermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Architecture, bent house, Botanical, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Daylighting, Fagerstrom House, falu red, L-shaped, ok tree, Swede .. ...
URBAN - Songjiang Hotel: Construction Begins On Chinese Eco-Resort Nestled into 100-Meter-Deep Quarry
Construction just began on a sustainable hotel resort built into a 100-meter high quarry in the Songjiang district just outside Shanghai. Looking like a villain's lair from a James Bond movie, the 19-story hotel complex will feature a huge waterfall pouring down from its roof and two of its first floors will be submerged in the water.Read the rest of Songjiang Hotel: Construction Begins On Chinese Eco-Resort Nestled into 100-Meter-Deep QuarryPerm ...
WIND - WindMade Wants Consumers To 'Show You Care'
For many people around the world, especially in the western developed world where greater choice is widely available, being able to choose what product to buy based on a variety of criteria is important. For some, they choose to buy only locally made products, while others might focus on a products ability to be recycled.WindMade have latched on to this desire to 'choose', creating the "first global consumer label identifying products and co .. ...
WIND - World's first hybrid wind/current generator could generate double the power
A new kind of hybrid generator promises to double the power output for the same surface area, by also harvesting energy from ocean currents ...
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