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NoMix Toilet. Photo: FlickrTechnological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet!Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there’s such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had “NoMix” toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity),andwe could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels). So what’s stopping us from going NoMix?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo viaObvious16 years ago, Horrace Burges had a divine vision, a calling from heaven. And, like the ark-crafting Noah before him, Horrace picked up a hammer and built a large wooden structure of his own–the world’s largest tree house. At 10 stories tall, with roughly 10,000 square feet, the tree house may be more aptly called a ‘tree mansion’, but according Horrace, it’s a work in progress….Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo:Recycled SurfboardsSurfershave always been known to have a connection with nature, they’re one on one with the planet every time they take to the waves. And it comes as no surprise that many surfers also consider themselves environmentalists. One such conscious surfer in Cocoa Beach, FL has found a new way to keep old surfboards from their former destiny at the landfill….Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: SAGE ElectrochromicsSAGE Electrochromics Gets $100+ MillionAnother day, another announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE). Yesterday, it was$100 million in funding for clean tech energy projectsvia ARPA-E, and today it’s $72 million in loan guarantees which are being added to an existing $31 million tax credit. The beneficiary isSAGE Electrochromics, the inventor of a special glass that can be made tinted by pressing a button….Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: SAGE ElectrochromicsSAGE Electrochromics Gets $100+ MillionAnother day, another announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE). Yesterday, it was$100 million in funding for clean tech energy projectsvia ARPA-E, and today it’s $72 million in loan guarantees which are being added to an existing $31 million tax credit. The beneficiary isSAGE Electrochromics, the inventor of a special glass that can be made tinted by pressing a button….Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lemon leaf with interconnected loops. Photo: RUA team of biophysicists at Rockefeller University recently published a paper inPhysical Review Lettersabout a new way to design distribution networks based on the veins that carry water and nutrients in most tree leaves. This is a great example of biomimicry! Evolution by natural selection maybe be blind, but it has had billions of years of trial-and-error to figure out efficient and robust ways to do things. The interconnecting vein loops in leaves are a good example of that, and we can learn…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Michael Graham RichardVote With Your WalletMélanie, my fiancé, is working on her master’s thesis. She tries to keep printing to a minimum, but many professors still require hard copies. When she ran out of paper, I was the one who went to buy more. I ended up buying the second cheapest kind of paper (made by Cascades, see pics above and below), and it reminded me that “100% recycled” should be just a starting point….Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Matthew McDermott, moreherePossibly More to ComeNew York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with other city officials, announced that the parts of Broadway that were closed last spring will become permanent pedestrian plazas, and that more might be added. Bloomberg said that “a reduction in injuries to pedestrians and motorists, along with a warm response from merchants and tourists, had persuaded him.”…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Energy AustraliaWant to live rent free for a year, and pay no costs for energy and water needs? Not enough incentive for you? How about the possibility of having a plug-in electric car in your garage, as well?

This is the deal that Energy Australia is offering, in concert with Sydney Water. They’ll be interviewing successful applicants, who will ideally be a family with kids to spend 12 month live-testing an energy and water smart home in the west of Sydney. The project that has been described by the NSW state government, one of the backers, as a ‘bit like “The Jetsons” meet “Big Brother.’…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Getty Images.With over a million left homeless and its capital city all but destroyed, Haiti is set to become the focus of an enormous rebuilding effort. Internationally, many are calling for a full-fledged“Marshall Plan”to rebuild the country, lasting at least a decade and costing billions of dollars. Moves this weekend tocancel its debts,while funding rebuilding efforts with grants, instead of more loans, are a positive…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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