Bringing you; the weekly, positive, and Green related articles. Strange weather for October. 14 spectacular lamps unveiled at the London Design Festival | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building 70-mile wide group of butterflies shows up on radar, confuses weather scientists | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Elon Musk declares Tesla could rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building LEED-seeking brick building in Montreal hides funky crystalline-inspired interior | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building espnW and Toyota Recognize 5th Class of ‘Everyday Heroes’ at 2017 The espnW: Women + Sports Summit | Toyota USA Newsroom http://www.ecofriend.com/global-warming-causes-and-preventive-measures.html Project Loon authorized to deploy balloons in Puerto Rico to provide emergency service | 9to5Google Tesla confirms having completed electric semi truck prototype, Musk says specs are better than expected | Electrek Photo: Hummingbird pauses on pink banana bloom : TreeHugger Controversial Energy East oil pipeline cancelled : TreeHugger See behind the scenes of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (video) : TreeHugger Sculptor carves fallen redwood tree into ocean's largest tentacled creature : TreeHugger
Part 2 Food-producing reACT home sustainably and intelligently adapts to your needs | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Vistabule teardrop trailer with flexible Sunflare solar panels makes off-grid travel easier than ever | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building World's first solar-powered, indoor vertical farm sprouts in Philadelphia | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Nissan reveals EV ecosystem that could give free power to EV owners | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building IEA proclaims ‘New Era for Solar Power’ – but are their projections bright enough? | Electrek Elon Musk and Puerto Rico Governor to talk today about ways for Tesla Energy to rebuild destroyed grid | Electrek EGEB: 48 ways to kill environment; Scotland wind doubles electricity needs; World’s most sustainable office building; more | Electrek Tesla breaks delivery record in Norway – resulting in new lowest CO2 emissions ever for new vehicles | Electrek It's Zero Waste October! : TreeHugger Spending time in nature boosts mental wellbeing, study says : TreeHugger Get off-grid & emergency power from this solar briefcase & battery packs : TreeHugger Catholic institutions announce largest ever faith-based fossil fuel divestment : TreeHugger
Part 3 Budapest’s tallest tower to follow the highest standards of sustainability | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Transformable solar building changes shape to teach people how to live sustainably | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Report: solar power is the fastest growing source of new energy | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Scientists say ice may fizz and bubble like champagne when floating in outer space | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Elon Musk says Tesla could rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid with batteries and solar | Electrek EGEB: Solar Decathalon is on!; $57B/year for solar panels; dusty panels lose up to 35%; more | Electrek US Dept. of Energy’s Solar Decathlon runs Oct 5-15 in Denver, Colorado; free public attendance | Electrek Nissan unveils new EV ecosystem to offer free power to owners with vehicle-to-grid system | Electrek Photo: Great gray owl is a majesty of feathers : TreeHugger All NYC public school cafeterias will offer plant-based options : TreeHugger London mayor announces another bike superhighway : TreeHugger The Seven Wonders: Travel posters celebrate our lost ancient treasures : TreeHugger
Part 4 The Puerto Rico nursery still up and running thanks to solar power | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Nanomaterial efficiently extracts hydrogen from seawater for fuel cells | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Mesmerizing white humpback whale spotted off the coast of Australia | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Mieluisa's Bilberry Pads are an accessible way to bring the forest to the city | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building EGEB: Record Solar bid – 1.78¢/kWh; IEA says solar domination; Storage powering Puerto Rico; more | Electrek Ford to shift one-third of internal combustion engine investments to electric cars | Electrek Toshiba claims its new electric car battery enables 200 miles of range with a 6-minute charge | Electrek Tesla Supercharger network reaches 1,000 stations worldwide and ~7,000 chargers | Electrek Campaign rids Seattle of 2 million straws in September; vote which city is next : TreeHugger Decoy sea turtle eggs help track down poachers : TreeHugger Your future clothes could be made out of methane : TreeHugger Your new indoor garden could be a tree -- a Living Farming Tree, that is : TreeHugger
Part 5 Catholic churches to make massive divestment from fossil fuels | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Solar Vertical City is a self-contained, green-infused tower planted into the ocean floor | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building This entire barley field was planted and harvested without humans | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Students build a low-cost yet high-quality sustainable home from recycled materials | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building EGEB: $78M stalled in Massachusetts; Module quality becoming a thing; solar tariff meetings today; more | Electrek EGEB: Solar up 40% in 2017; CAT5 + Solar not all roses; Automated solar panel factories; more | Electrek A Supercomputer Dreamed Up a Bird-Like Airplane Wing - Seeker Mental Training Exercises Can Alter Your Brain and Reduce Stress - Seeker Photo: Autumn sets the hills ablaze with color : TreeHugger Cyclists count bikes because facts fight anecdata : TreeHugger Water 3.0 solves problem of microplastics and pharmaceuticals in wastewater : TreeHugger 11 things to know about this year’s Harvest Moon : TreeHugger
Part 6 Energy-conscious library that doubles as a “living room” breaks ground in Shanghai | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building BREAKING: Scotland bans fracking — indefinitely | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building GM's plans for "all-electric-future" spell doom for fossil fuel industry | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Former coal miners receive training for renewable energy jobs | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Small-Scale Solar Is ‘Leapfrogging’ Limited Electric Grids in Africa and Asia - Seeker Small-Scale Solar Is ‘Leapfrogging’ Limited Electric Grids in Africa and Asia - Seeker Puerto Rico to get hurricane aid from Project Loon balloons - CNET GM's SURUS self-driving truck chassis could be a boon to disaster relief - Roadshow Grace Hopper Celebration: Next-gen women technologists forge a new path - CNET Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to scientists studying circadian rhythms : TreeHugger New leader of Canada’s 3rd largest political party rides a bike : TreeHugger How to maximize the number of books you read : TreeHugger
Part 7 German company steps in to help Puerto Rico with microgrid installations | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Bicycle highway in the Netherlands was built using recycled toilet paper | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Bloomberg’s new London HQ rated world’s most sustainable office | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building This living hammock is an incredible seat made of soil-less plants | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Hubble wows with stunning space images - CNET Hubble spots creepy-crawly Tarantula Nebula - CNET Researchers create a fast-sealing surgical 'glue' for closing wounds Project Loon cleared to help restore wireless in Puerto Rico Chevy is building a hydrogen fuel-cell transport vehicle for the Army Solar power is the fastest growing source of global energy Open data from the Large Hadron Collider sparks new discovery Rosetta probe's last surprise: a photo of its landing site