GARDENING - The Urban Homestead - "Water Wise Gardening" Urban eco-pioneer, Anais Dervaes, demonstrates an ancient

Urban eco-pioneer, Anais Dervaes, demonstrates an ancient & efficient method of irrigation using ollas unglazed clay pots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1zJlwRz-s4

CLIMATE - Prince Charles Donates Millions to Combat Climate Change

http://www.treehugger.com/green-investments/prince-charles-donates-millions-combat-climate-change.html

EARTH - Kirk Sorensen: "If Thorium is Good Enough for the Moon, It's Good Enough for Earth"

http://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/if-thorium-good-enough-moon-its-good-enough-earth.html

ECONOMICS - How New York City Helps Nonprofits Get More Bang For Their Buck

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679154/how-new-york-city-helps-nonprofits-get-more-bang-for-their-buck

ECONOMICS - How New York City Helps Nonprofits Get More Bang For Their Buck

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679154/how-new-york-city-helps-nonprofits-get-more-bang-for-their-buck

ECONOMICS - Daily Wrap: 1/18/2012

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketnewsvideo/2012/01/18/daily-wrap-1182012/

ECONOMICS - Fair Trade USA Splits From International Fair Trade Organization, Favoring Corporatization of Coffee

http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/fair-trade-usa-splits-international-fair-trade-organization.html

ENERGY - Scotland Guns for 100% Renewable Energy by 2020

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/scotland-guns-100-renewable-energy-2020.html

GARDENS -Art Installation's Time-Lapsed Landscapes Collapse Time & Change in Nature

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/time-lapsed-landscapes-nobuhiro-nakanishi.html

HOMES - 5exotically green beach homes for nature loving individuals

http://www.ecofriend.com/exotically-green-beach-homes-nature-loving-individuals.html

HOMES - Mind-blowing Digital 3D Printing of Super-Green Houses is Happening Now

http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/green-architecture/digital-house-moves-prototype-reality-facit/

PEOPLE - David Attenborough Urges Corporations to Help Reverse Population Expansion

http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/david-attenborough-urges-corporations-help-reverse-population-expansion.html

PEOPLE - 'Women Worse at Math Than Men' Explanation Scientifically Incorrect, Experts Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120118123141.htm

PERMACULTURE - How to harvest Honey from Natural Comb

http://milkwood.net/2012/01/19/how-to-harvest-honey-from-natural-comb/

PERMACULTURE - 10 Historical Figures You Had No Idea Were Environmentalists

Genghis Khan (1162 - 1227)
King Edward I of England (1239 - 1307)
Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994)
Pythagoras (c. 570 BC - c. 495 BC)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Ányos Jedlik (1800 - 1895)
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Mohandas Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Ted Kaczynski (1942 - )
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)


http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/culture/10-historical-figures-you-had-no-idea-were-environmentalists/to Theodore Roosevelt, who pioneered the concept of national parks and preserved huge swathes of the American wilderness. After that come green heroes like John Muir and Rachel Carson.

SCIENCE - Science's "most beautiful theories"

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre80e04y-us-feature-sciences-most-beautiful-theories/

SOLAR - Taking cues from the master: Solar energy systems inspired by natural forms

http://www.ecofriend.com/cues-master-solar-energy-systems-inspired-natural-forms.html

SOLAR - Twin 50 MW Solar Thermal Plants Go Online in Spain; Each Can Run 7.5 Hours After Nightfall

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/twin-50-mw-solar-thermal-plants-go-online-spain-each-runs-75-hours-after-nightfall.html

TECH - This Could Be Big Augmentative reality Aurasma Matt Mills

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/


http://www.aurasma.com/

Sci-Fi-Infused Videos Show Off Keiichi Matsuda’s Vision of the Future

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/01/keiichi-matsuda/

SPACE - A 3-D Movie Featuring The Space Junk Floating Around Earth

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665843/the-sky-is-full-of-junk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-hl28A9NfU4 

TECH - QBIC Lamp: A green lighting device that never lets you go without power

http://www.ecofriend.com/qbic-lamp-green-lighting-device-power.html

TECH - Dropbox co-founder aims to build his own Google, not sell to them

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-dropbox-co-founder-aims-google.html

TECH - IBM scientists create the smallest 3D map of planet Earth

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-ibm-scientists-smallest-3d-planet.html

URBAN - Electree City: An arboreal object that harnesses solar energy

http://www.ecofriend.com/electree-city-arboreal-object-harnesses-solar-energy.html

URBAN - Starbucks' Shipping Container Drive-through in Seattle So Much?

http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/why-do-i-hate-starbucks-shipping-container-drivethrough-seattle-so-much.html

URBAN - How To Build a Resilient Design: Make it Smaller, Higher, Stronger and Warmer

http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/how-build-resilient-design-make-it-smaller-higher-stronger-and-warmer.html

URBAN - Urban Depavers Return Parking Lots to Paradise

Perils For Pedestrians 145: Portland, OR

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15Wt8DBjvY

Depaving Day! from Streetfilms on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/12491437


http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/urban-depavers-return-parking-lot-land-nature.html 

URBAN - Artist Channels Historical Propaganda Posters to Promote Gardening

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/victory-gardens-future-posters.html

URBAN - Time Lapse Landscape Design

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ev8H95ukCs

URBAN - Art Installation's Time-Lapsed Landscapes Collapse Time & Change in Nature

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/time-lapsed-landscapes-nobuhiro-nakanishi.html

ENERGY - NRDC urges Obama administration to move forward with upgrading CAFE standards

http://www.torquenews.com/1075/nrdc-urges-obama-administration-move-forward-upgrading-cafe-standards

ECONOMICS - Who's wealthy? Beyond net worth, asset and debt levels change our perceptions

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-whos-wealthy-net-worth-asset.html

ENERGY - Greenlet permits remote control of power consumption

http://www.ecofriend.com/greenlet-permits-remote-control-power-consumption.html

ENERGY - Comparing energy conversion of plants and solar cells

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-energy-conversion-solar-cells.html

HOMES - The Immersive Cocoon May Be The Ultimate Home Office

http://vimeo.com/21463365

http://www.treehugger.com/interior-design/immersive-cocoon-may-be-ultimate-home-office.html

PEOPLE - People behave socially and 'well' even without rules: study

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-people-socially.html

PLANTS -Study offers insight into delicate biochemical balance required for plant growth

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-insight-delicate-biochemical-required-growth.html

PERMACULTURE - Comparing energy conversion of plants and solar cells

Comparing plant and photovoltaic systems is a challenge. Although both processes harvest energy from sunlight, they use that energy in different ways. Plants convert the sun's energy into chemical energy, whereas solar cells produce electricity -the annual averaged efficiency of solar-cell-driven electrolysis is about 10 %
Solar energy conversion efficiencies for crop plants are about 1 %, which illustrates the significant potential to improve the efficiency of the natural system


http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-energy-conversion-solar-cells.html

PERMACULTURE - A Fierce Green Fire Official Trailer

Oscar-nominated director Mark Kitchell chronicling the history of the environmental movement


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bt1NYAPtbo&feature=player_embedded

PERMACULTURE - Team finds natural reasons behind nitrogen-rich forests

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-team-natural-nitrogen-rich-forests.html

SPACE - 'Spooky action at distance' in particle physics?

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-spooky-action-distance-particle-physics.html

URBAN - Black Hole Research Center: A sustainable conception inspired by real time space

http://www.ecofriend.com/black-hole-research-center-sustainable-conception-inspired-real-time-space.html

WATER - Tropical clouds hold clues for the global water cycle

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-tropical-clouds-clues-global.html

ART - Artist Carves Vintage Books Into Astoundingly Intricate 3D Sculptures

http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/intricate-3d-sculptures-made-vintage-books-guy-laramee.html

CLIMATE - Newly discovered molecules in atmosphere may offset global warming

A newly discovered form of chemical intermediary in the atmosphere has the ability to remove pollutants in a way that leads to cloud-formation and could potentially help offset global warming. Criegee biradicals formed when ozone reacts with a certain class of organic compounds - react with pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide, much more rapidly than expected to form sulphates and nitrates. "These compounds," Science Daily explains, "will lead to aerosol formation and ultimately to cloud formation with the potential to cool the planet.""the ecosystem is negating climate change more efficiently than we thought it was."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120112142232.htm 

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/13/newly-discovered-molecules-in-atmosphere-may-offset-global-warming/

CLIMATE - European Mountain Vegetation Shows Effects of Warmer Climate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120108143605.htm

CLIMATE - 12 Ways To Reduce Warming 2/3rds by 2050

http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/12-simpleish-ways-quickly-reduce-global-warming-two-thirds-2050.html

CLIMATE - Map Reveals the Nation's Biggest Contributors to Climate Change

http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/map-reveals-nations-biggest-contributors-climate-change.html

ECONOMICS - 7 Top Tax Deductions for Small Businesses

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thesba/2012/01/12/7-top-tax-deductions-for-small-businesses/

ECONOMICS - It’s Time To Start Judging Nonprofits Like For-Profits

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679099/its-time-to-start-judging-nonprofits-like-for-profits

ECONOMICS - Will A Soda Tax Really Save 26,000 Lives, Billions Of Dollars?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2012/01/12/will-a-soda-tax-really-save-26000-lives-billions-of-dollars/

ECONOMICS - How Banks Can Make Money On Energy-Efficiency Loans

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferkho/2012/01/13/how-banks-can-make-money-on-energy-efficiency-loans/

ENERGY - Distributed Energy Delivers Big, Green Results in London

http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2012/01/13/distributed-energy-delivers-big-green-results-in-london/

ENERGY - Attention CES: California Mandates Energy Efficient Battery Chargers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2012/01/13/attention-ces-california-mandates-energy-efficient-battery-chargers/

ENERGY - Why Alternative Energy

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaynejung/2012/01/12/why-alternative-energy-part-two/

ENERGY - Kinesis concept vehicle converts mechanical energy to electricity

http://www.ecofriend.com/kinesis-concept-vehicle-converts-mechanical-energy-electricity.html

ENERGY - Eco friendly hybrid energy generating systems

http://www.ecofriend.com/eco-friendly-hybrid-energy-generating-systems.html

ENERGY - Energy News Recap: China May Soon Burn Half of All World's Coal, SuperFracking

http://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/china-soon-burn-half-worlds-coal-super-fracking-vestas-closing-plants.html

ENERGY - Permanent Magnetic Motor from Argentina. A self running, free energy generator!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBB8puMtwJM&feature=share

GARDENS - 7 earth-friendly kiosks promoting the green cult

http://www.ecofriend.com/earth-friendly-kiosks-promoting-green-cult.html

GARDENS - Bee Deaths Linked to Seed Insecticide Exposure

http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/bee-deaths-linked-seed-insecticide-exposure.html

GARDENS - 10 Vegetables You Can Grow Without Full Sun

1.Salad Greens (leaf lettuce, arugula, endive, cress)
2.Broccoli
3.Cauliflower
4.Peas
5.Beets
6.Brussels Sprouts
7.Radishes
8.Swiss Chard
9.Leafy Greens  (collards, mustard greens, spinach, kale)
10.Beans

http://organicgardening.about.com/od/vegetablesherbs/a/shadeveggies.htm

GARDENS - A Vegetable Garden Inside a Supermarket

Supermarket of Hua Ho Department Store Manggis in Brunei Darussalam. The vegetable are were grown using the soil less gardening method called hydroponics. According to experts, food and water are fed directly to the roots in hy.
http://www.thevisualmerchandisingblog.com/2011/11/vegetable-garden-inside-supermarket.html

HOMES - Bookcase Staircase

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/tanyamohn/files/2011/12/074y72S87Bg9q_791.jpg

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/ejef45kme/bookcase-staircase-england/ 

PEOPLE - Can These Simple Cartoons Help Redesign Education?

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665798/can-these-simple-animations-help-redesign-education

PEOPLE - Born to Learn is the first animation in a fascinating series

Born to Learn is the first animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries constantly being made about how humans learn! http://vimeo.com/20924263

PEOPLE - Old people getting richer, young people getting poorer

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/14/the_evolution_of_american_debt/

PERMACULTURE - Have We Reached Peak Stuff?

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679112/have-we-reached-peak-stuff

PERMACULTURE - Singapore: A Window On The Future Of Sustainable Cities

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679143/singapore-a-window-on-the-future-of-sustainable-cities

PERMACULTURE - Green Leaf: The blossoming of sustainable community living in Bangladesh

http://www.ecofriend.com/green-leaf-blossoming-sustainable-community-living-bangladesh.html

PERMACULTURE - Green Business is Good. Resilient Business is Better

http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/green-business-good-resilient-business-better.html

PERMACULTURE - Resilience Favors Simplicity. But That Doesn't Have to Mean Crunchiness

http://www.treehugger.com/economics/resilience-favors-simplicity-doesnt-have-mean-crunchiness.html

SOLAR - Concentrated solar technology to help make solar power affordable

http://www.ecofriend.com/concentrated-solar-technology-solar-power-affordable.html

SOLAR - Solar power generation based on the design of sunflowers

a CSP installation is to make use of mirrors and lenses to harness solar energy and then concentrate the heat in a small area. Here, water gets heated and converts to steam. The steam is then used for running turbines, which generates electricity. Till date, the most efficient way of harnessing the maximum heat was to arrange mirrors and lenses on a tower in concentric circles.
florets on the flower are arranged in a spiral which is called the Fermat spiral or the parabolic spiral. The arrangement is such that that each floret forms an angle of 137.51 degrees relative to the next; called the golden angle.
These spirals are interconnected with each other along the Fibonacci series, which has been observed in branching plants, pine cones, seed heads and even in sea shells.
the researchers simply decided to copy the pattern of the sunflower florets and angled each mirror at an angle of 137 degrees relative to the other. The result was an increased efficiency.

Abstract growing sunflower
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/biologically-inspired-design-how-sunflowers-could-reshape-solar-power/12016 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aoisakana/2583514967/ 

http://www.ecofriend.com/solar-power-generation-based-design-sunflowers.html

SOLAR - Concentrated solar technology to help make solar power affordable

http://www.ecofriend.com/concentrated-solar-technology-solar-power-affordable.html

SPACE - Dark Side of the Moon Revealed: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP Reveals Lunar Surface Features

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120113210608.htm

TECH - 10 eco friendly products that made debut at CES 2012

http://www.ecofriend.com/10-eco-friendly-products-debut-ces-2012.html

TECH - XO-3 Tablet: A durable and low-cost device for children of developing nations

http://www.ecofriend.com/xo-3-tablet-durable-cost-device-children-developing-nations.html

TECH - CES 2012: The Connected Home Leads As Popular Theme in Consumer Electronics

http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/ces-2012-connected-home-leads-popular-theme-in-consumer-electronics.html

TECH - CES 2012: Cubify Brings 3D Printing To Your Livingroom, Set To Win Best of CES

http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/ces-2012-cubify-brings-3d-printing-to-your-livingroom.html

URBAN - Architect Proposes "Sea Trees": Floating Wildlife Oases

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665819/floating-wildlife-habitats-are-trees-for-the-sea

URBAN - NYCTech Campus: A massive eco friendly tech hub in NYC

http://www.ecofriend.com/nyctech-campus-massive-eco-friendly-tech-hub-nyc.html

URBAN - A new typology of skyscrapers to house birds

http://www.ecofriend.com/urban-aviary-typology-skyscrapers-house-birds.html

URBAN - 30 Story Hotel Completely Built and Finished in Fifteen Days, on New Years Eve

http://www.treehugger.com/modular-design/30-story-hotel-completely-built-and-finished-fifteen-days-amazing-video.html

WIND - Wyoming to Get North America's Biggest Wind Farm (3000 MW)

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/3000-mw-wind-farm-wyoming-fast-tracked-obama.html

ECONOMICS - The Best and Worst Cities For Jobs Right Now

1. San Antonio, Texas - Net employment outlook: 17%
2. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla -Net employment outlook: 16%
3. (tie) Baltimore-Towson, Md - Net employment outlook: 13%
4. (tie) Greensboro-High Point, N.C - Net employment outlook: 13%
5. (tie) St. Louis, Mo.-Ill  - Net employment outlook: 13%
6. (tie) Tulsa, Okla - Net employment outlook: 13%
7. (tie) Baton Rouge, La - Net employment outlook: 12%
8. (tie) Boise City-Nampa, Idaho - Net employment outlook: 12%
9. (tie) El Paso, Texas - Net employment outlook: 12%
10. (tie) New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, La - Net employment outlook: 12%
11. (tie) Austin-Round Rock, Texas - Net employment outlook: 11%
12. (tie) Des Moines-West Des Moines, Iowa - Net employment outlook: 11%
13. (tie) Grand Rapids-Wyoming, Mich - Net employment outlook: 11%
14. (tie) Lexington-Fayette, Ky - Net employment outlook: 11%
15. (tie) Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Ariz  - Net employment outlook: 11%
WORST
1. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Conn - Net employment outlook: -7%
2. Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Fla - Net employment outlook: -5%
3. (tie) Spokane, Wash - Net employment outlook: -4%
4. (tie) Las Vegas-Paradise, Nev - Net employment outlook: -4%
5. Reno-Sparks, Nev  - Net employment outlook: -3%
6. (tie) Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine  - Net employment outlook: -2%
7. (tie) Lancaster, Pa - Net employment outlook: -2%
8. (tie) Lakeland-Winter Haven, Fla  - Net employment outlook: -2%
9. (tie) Albany-Schenectady-Troy, N.Y  - Net employment outlook: -2%
10. (tie) Akron, Ohio  - Net employment outlook: -2%
11. (tie) New Haven-Milford, Conn  - Net employment outlook: -1%
12. (tie) Buffalo-Niagara Falls, N.Y  - Net employment outlook: -1%
13. (tie) Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, Ohio-Pa  - Net employment outlook: 0%
14. (tie) Bakersfield, Calif  - Net employment outlook: 0%
15. (tie) Asheville, N.C  - Net employment outlook: 0%http://www.forbes.com/sites/markbergen/2011/12/23/the-best-and-worst-news-for-u-s-cities-in-2011/

ECONOMICS - It’s Time To Start Judging Nonprofits Like For-Profits

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679099/its-time-to-start-judging-nonprofits-like-for-profits

BOOKS- 'a must read' 'Understanding and Developing Node Modules' by David Herron

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/269546_116625795099089_2122667_n.jpghttp://www.amazon.com/Node-Web-Development-David-Herron/dp/184951514Xhttp://www.facebook.com/ReikiMan#!/pages/Node-Web-Development/116624021765933http://www.packtpub.com/article/understanding-developing-node-modules 

CLIMATE - 1-Minute Video Explains the Difference Between Climate & Weather

http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/simplest-way-understand-climate-vs-weather-video.html

CLIMATE - To Escape Rising Seas, Maldives President May Move His Entire Island Nation to Australia

http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/sea-levels-rise-maldives-president-may-move-his-entire-island-nation-australia.html

EARTH - The lost city of Cahokia: Archaeologists uncover Native Americans' sprawling metropolis under St Louis

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082113/The-lost-city-Cahokia-Archaeologists-uncover-Native-Americans-sprawling-metropolis.html

ECONOMICS - Half of Renewables in Germany Citizen-Owned

Energy Owned By Citizens & Farmers, Not Utility Companies

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/over-half-germany-renewable-energy-owned-citizens-not-utility-companies.html
Germany now produces slightly over 20% of all its electricity from renewable sources

ECONOMICS - Connecting the Dots Between Oil Prices, Iran & China, the Strait of Hormuz, and U.S. Electric Cars

http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/connecting-dots-between-iran-china-us-electric-cars.html

ECONOMICS - 4 payment industry predictions for 2012

http://gigaom.com/2012/01/07/dunlap-paypal-payment-predictions/

ECONOMICS - Louis C.K.’s lesson for marketers: Honesty is the best strategy

http://gigaom.com/2012/01/06/lee-louis-ck-marketing/

ECONOMICS - Clay Mathiel passion perspective billionaire

http://video.forbes.com/fvn/ampc/clay-mathiel-passion-perspective-billionaire

ECONOMICS - The Top 20 Companies most proissing companies

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/28/most-promising-companies-11_land.html

ECONOMICS - Fastest growing occupations

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_103.htm

ECONOMICS - Small business leading job market back - Small businesses are in a hiring sort of mood

"The big firms aren’t growing employment; it's the small firms that fired everybody during the recession," said NFIB chief economist William Dunkelberg. "Those jobs are now coming back. The barber shop that used to have five chairs working and fell to three when people cut back on spending -- now they're getting back to five."
In the ADP report, of the 148,000 jobs created by small businesses, 130,000 of them were in the services sector.

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/05/9980564-small-business-leading-job-market-back

ENERGY - Futuristic travel case to charge gadgets while on the go

http://www.ecofriend.com/futuristic-travel-case-charge-gadgets.html