Bringing you, your weekly positive Green related articles. Finally starting to get in red peppers. INFOGRAPHIC: 50 Ways Your Home Could Help Save the Planet | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building A beginners guide to ethical fashion | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building These 12 enchanting treehouses are what dreams are made of | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building This wood, laser-cut book makes you solve a puzzle before you can turn to the next page | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Toyota Research Institute Partners with University of Michigan to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence Research | Corporate The Netherlands’ ban on gas-powered cars ‘likely to become law’, all new cars electric by 2025 | Electrek Scotland blows away the competition – 106% of electricity needs from wind – joins select club | Electrek Enthusiast builds all-electric speed boat using Tesla battery modules | Electrek Photo: Reddish egret is graceful in gray : TreeHugger How will we live in 2050? A look at our virtual existence : TreeHugger Toronto Mayor to rigorously study success of new bike lane : TreeHugger This app fights food waste by letting you buy restaurant leftovers : TreeHugger
Part 2 This dryer can get clothes dry in 20 minutes with 70% less energy and no heat | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building 400-year-old Arctic shark is the oldest living vertebrate animal in the world | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building NatureZap uses light, instead of pesticides, to rid your garden of weeds | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Bowl-shaped stadium in the UAE uses smart design to stay naturally cool in searing heat | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Tesla to open Flagship Store this Fall in Boston’s solar/wind-powered Prudential Center | Electrek Audi has a new ‘eROT’ smart shock absorption system that actually turns bumps into (a little bit of) energy | Electrek First offshore Deepwater Wind power turbines in US going up off of Block Island, RI | Electrek Tesla opens its biggest store and service center in North America, 65,000 sq-ft flagship store in San Francisco | Electrek The solar roof exists: SunTegra offers solar shingles and tiles : TreeHugger Take a video tour of the bike bridges of Copenhagen : TreeHugger Which fashion companies are on track to detox? : TreeHugger How e-bikes could transform our cities : TreeHugger
Part 3 Estream is the world's smallest hydro power plant | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Groundbreaking self-destructing battery dissolves in water when its job is done | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building MIT's breakthrough self-shading windows change from clear to dark in an instant | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Le Ville di Trevinano: 10 earth-sheltered villas blend in with the Tuscan landscape | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Elon Musk announces ‘Solar Roof’ product, Tesla/SolarCity will go after the roof industry | Electrek Hyperloop design competition: 65 miles from Dubai to Fujairah in 10 minutes | Electrek Hyperloop One interested in using its system for underwater transportation | Electrek New Nearby Earth-like Planet Discovered Photo: The babies have fledged ... let the chaos begin : TreeHugger 12 new uses for old smartphones and tablets : TreeHugger Ultrasonic clothes dryers could shorten drying time to 20 minutes, and use 70% less energy : TreeHugger 10 extraordinary facts about elephant trunks : TreeHugger
Part 4 Solar-powered Xinhee Design Center is inspired by human skin and bones | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Detroit nonprofit seeks crowdfunding for new East Side community garden | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Innovative HyparGate paves way for modular fabrication of complex stone structures | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building New Karma Revero will be entirely-powered by rooftop solar panels | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Manatees Return to Caribbean Huge HiRISE Photo Release Reveals Mars Beauty Perseid Meteor 'Outburst' Could Be Awesome Shifting Sands Reveal 400-Year-Old Petroglyphs Photo: Macro shot shows beauty of shells and sand : TreeHugger How Internet-driven activism has improved animal welfare : TreeHugger This magic wand kills weeds with high energy light : TreeHugger 6 foods to protect your skin from the sun : TreeHugger
Part 5 Paper artist Amy Genser's new nature-inspired art mimics reefs, beehives, and barnacles | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Space "just got a lot weirder," says an astronomer | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Scotland's wind turbines generated 106% of the country's electricity last Sunday | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Snøhetta's nature-filled Beirut bank is an icon of sustainability | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Oregon Zoo Sets Free Rare Butterflies Williams to Become NASA's Longest-Duration Space Flier Nature Documentaries May Help Ease Aggression in Prisons 2016 Olympic Medals Have a Recycled Heart This year’s Perseid meteor shower might be perfect for the attention-challenged : TreeHugger Photo: Baby tree frog is the size of a thumbnail : TreeHugger Lucy is a robotic solar daylighting system that directs sunlight where it's needed : TreeHugger Flight of the bumblebee: Research tracks every move of these mysterious creatures : TreeHugger
Part 6 Photographer upcycles street trash into brilliant home decor | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Adorable Apple Headquarters treehouse pays homage to its dead host | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Elon Musk is developing a roof made entirely out of solar panels | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Gaza man's DIY solar desalination machine can produce 2.6 gallons of fresh water every day | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Deep-Sea Anemone Tentacles Stump Scientists Look Up! Perseid Meteors Could be Supercharged OxyLED P03 Portable LED Camping Lantern review Toyota Pledges Additional $22 Million For Autonomous Vehicles | News & Opinion | PCMag.com Italy's new laws aim to cut food waste by 1 million tons per year : TreeHugger Beautiful solar-powered car chargers keep the Netherlands moving : TreeHugger Homemade hydroelectric generator uses plastic bottles as water wheel : TreeHugger Self-destructing battery dissolves when its job is done : TreeHugger
Part 7 DIY hydroelectric water wheel uses recycled plastic bottles to generate free electricity | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building NASA unveils 6 prototypical deep space human habitats for Mars and beyond | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building The world’s largest Delta 3D printer creates nearly zero-cost homes out of mud | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Steve Axford captures the hidden world of rare and undocumented fungi | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Scientists are closing in on turning hydrogen into a metal | ExtremeTech The Perseids peak tonight, and will put on a spectacular show (updated) | ExtremeTech Self-destructing batteries could change recycling, medical implants, even war | ExtremeTech California bill would require more zero-emissions cars NASA publishes a thousand photos of Mars Elon Musk is working on a roof made of solar panels Deep Space Industries plans to land on an asteroid by 2020 Photo: Industrious beaver takes care of business : TreeHugger
Part 8 New "Blue Whirl" fire releases less pollution | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Fleet of solar-powered charging stations prepares The Netherlands for impending EV revolution | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Hyperloop One wants to build underwater supersonic transport tubes | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building 16-year-old South African girl invents drought-fighting super material from orange peels | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Venus may have supported life before Earth Toyota plunks down $22 million to advance AI research in Michigan - Roadshow Mysterious object discovered in strange orbit beyond Neptune - CNET See the beauty in a rocket with NASA's crazy new camera - CNET Futuristic Japanese indoor vertical farm produces 12,000 heads of lettuce a day with Philips LED lighting "recipes" | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building LA's Everytable cafe provides low-income residents a healthy alternative to McDonalds | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Apple is officially cleared to sell surplus solar energy | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building NASA builds more advanced shelters to protect firefighters from wildfires | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building