Bringing you; the weekly, positive, and Green related articles. Happy Summer. Hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and well. Garden City brings a breath of fresh air to urban Paris (inhabitat.com) 555 Greenwich office building aims for LEED Platinum in NYC (inhabitat.com) What the smart roads of the future might look like (inhabitat.com) New Day School by MMXVI makes use of existing residential building (inhabitat.com) 4 Natural Ways to Get Rid of Unhealthy Air - Ecofriend.com How to Build an Eco-Friendly Home Extension – A Guide (ecofriend.com) Is it Healthier to Drink With a Straw? - Ecofriend.com Four of the Best Eco-Friendly Gifts for Any Occasion (ecofriend.com) What to Do With a Lavender Harvest (treehugger.com) Biden and Automakers Agree on 50% EVs by 2030—Are the Regulations Tough Enough? (treehugger.com) Here's an Easy Way to Help Manatees (treehugger.com) Zooey Deschanel Talks to Treehugger About Making the World a Better Place
Part 2 Traumhaus Funari transforms old military site into affordable housing (inhabitat.com) This restaurant features a green terrace and organic garden (inhabitat.com) Upper Los Angeles River Plan wins award for inclusive, sustainable design (inhabitat.com) Kitchen Garden Textiles makes farm-to-table linens (inhabitat.com) Sustainable woodworker builds her own beautiful wooden electric bike (electrek.co) Airbnb now lets you search for accommodations with EV chargers - Electrek Honda launches low-cost U-GO electric scooter - Electrek Nio EP9 first drive: the fastest, most expensive EV ever built [video] (electrek.co) UK Explores Building E-Highway to Power Long-Haul Trucks (treehugger.com) Rare Chameleon Species Is Found ‘Clinging to Survival’ (treehugger.com) Is Tokyo 2020 the Greenest Olympics Ever or the Most Greenwashed? (treehugger.com) How I Prepare for and Prevent Garden Flooding (treehugger.com)
Part 3 Famous Amsterdam canal gets a 3D-printed smart bridge (inhabitat.com) Killer whale stranded in Alaska gets rescued (inhabitat.com) Architect chosen to design sustainable 2026 Olympic Village (inhabitat.com) Vegan, natural soaps include limited-edition art prints by female artists (inhabitat.com) Arrival to co-develop its EV open-data platform alongside Microsoft - Electrek Biden to sign executive order for 50% of new cars being electric by 2030, reiterates new point-of-sale EV incentive - Electrek EGEB: Maryland offshore wind plans make a great leap forward - Electrek Solectrac launches new 70 HP, 60 kWh electric tractor for $75,000 - Electrek Microbes Can Transform Plastic Trash Into Edible Protein (treehugger.com) California Fox To Be Protected as Endangered Species (treehugger.com) HomeBiogas Toilet Turns Poop Into Fuel (treehugger.com) Jessica Alba Urges Grassroots Ideas for Climate Change Solutions (treehugger.com)
Part 4 Nelson Mandela Park adds a breath of fresh air to an industrial part of Rotterdam (inhabitat.com) Papermelon makes sustainable jewelry from upcycled paper (inhabitat.com) Complete These Gardening Tasks in August to Prepare for Fall (lifehacker.com) How to Make a Rock Garden to Save Yourself From so Much Yard Work (lifehacker.com) Scotland's largest whiskey producer to install 4 MW solar farm - Electrek DHL to deploy 12 redesigned Alice ePlanes from Eviation; testing begins this year - Electrek Tesla opening Supercharger network will enable access to new $7.5 billion EV funding in US - Electrek Tesla teases Dojo supercomputer and partnership with famed roboticist - Electrek NASA Seeking Applications for Year-Long Simulated Mission to Mars (gizmodo.com) What Is the Best Electric Bike for Older or Novice Riders? (treehugger.com) Clever Solution Saves Thousands of Seabird Chicks (treehugger.com) Pop-Up Charging Stations Are Less Offensive to Pedestrians (treehugger.com)
Part 5 Why You Should Learn Your Family Medical History (and How to Find It) (lifehacker.com) When to Seed Your Lawn, and When to Use Sod (lifehacker.com) How to Grow a Lemon Tree Indoors (lifehacker.com) President Biden wants half of new vehicles to be zero-emissions by 2030 | Engadget In 2020, 78% of new US power installations were clean energy - Electrek Here's what is (and isn't) in the new bipartisan infrastructure bill for EVs (electrek.co) Arrival Van completes first autonomous ride without driver, road tests to follow - Electrek Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: $3.5k Mini Cop Car (electrek.co) This Blasted Star Is Getting the Hell Out of the Milky Way (gizmodo.com) Biologists Have Been Vastly Underestimating Giraffes’ Social Skills (gizmodo.com) Curiosity Rover Sees a Weird Martian Rock Formation (gizmodo.com) Rare Back-to-Back Flybys of Venus Will Happen August 9 and 10 (gizmodo.com)
Part 6 Birds Are Brazenly Stealing Hair Off Animals' Backs (gizmodo.com) Double-Charm Tetraquark Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (gizmodo.com) A star fragment is flying out of our galaxy at nearly two million miles per hour | Engadget Scientists spot light behind a black hole for the first time | Engadget NASA astronaut reacts to 'spiders' on the ISS - CNET NASA Mars helicopter scouts out rocks with 'curious lines' - CNET Scientists solve mystery of missing supernovas - CNET 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet upends history of mathematics - CNET Scientists launching Blob into space - CNET NASA Hubble Space Telescope snaps 'squabbling galactic siblings' - CNET Toyota introduces a GR Sport trim for the J300 Land Cruiser - Roadshow NASA rover spots 'whimsical' rock arch on Mars that's defying erosion - CNET
