Phoenix, Arizona is trying to cool off. America’s hottest city is planting trees. A Vox video by Joss Fong.
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Hey Granny, Zurich’s Micasa Lab makes a rocking chair with a built-in generator, speakers, and a dock for your iPad. Hot Diggity!
iRock: The Worlds first power generating iPad Rocking Chair.
On second thought, bet you youngsters down in SoHo and the Village wish you had one right now ….
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Researchers at the City University of Hong Kong, working with The Climate Group and Starbucks Hong Kong, have converted coffee grounds and stale pastry into plastic’s chemical components. The demonstration project used a small biorefinery rig sufficient for “proof of concept.” The process uses enzymes from fungi to break the waste’s carbohydrates into sugars and ferment them into succinic acid, which can be used to make many things, such as pharmaceutical additives, detergent, solvents, polymers, mulch films, rubbish bags, flushable hygiene products, and artificial sweetener.
Q: What’s full of empty calories, packed in disposable plastic, saves energy, helps Earth’s ecology, and improves the lives of the world’s poor?
A. Coca-Cola in 1.5 liter plastic bottles.
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