Bringing you; the weekly, positive, and Green related articles. Looks like October weather will finally hit. Tesla earns contract for world's first solar, wind and storage project | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building New concrete roof includes thin-film PV cells to generate power | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Solar record-breaking China aims for 50GW installed in 2017 | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Failed Palm Springs golf course is being repurposed into a sustainable community filled with working olive groves | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building 2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro Named Mid-Size Pickup Truck of Texas for the Second Straight Year | Toyota USA Newsroom VH1 Save The Music Foundation Launches New Partnership to Strengthen Music Programs in Public Schools at 20th Anniversary Gala | Toyota USA Newsroom Calling Teen Filmmakers: Toyota and Discovery Launch Safe Driving PSA Challenge | Toyota USA Newsroom Toyota Launches “Start Your Impossible” Global Corporate Initiative | Toyota USA Newsroom Clutter is bad, even if you're not a hoarder : TreeHugger Mented makes nude, vegan, non-toxic lipsticks for women of color : TreeHugger Joris Laarman Lab shows the future of digital design : TreeHugger Tired iguana lost at sea gets ride to shore from kind kayaker (video) : TreeHugger
Part 2 13 innovative, thought-provoking designs that broke new ground at the London Design Festival | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building LAVA unveils greenery-infused Garden Island to revamp Sydney Harbour | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building This company wants to turn food waste into building materials — here’s how | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Futuristic solar home hidden inside 18th-century stone ruins | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Simple yet effective ways of reducing your gasoline consumption Outdoor and indoor DIY projects with repurposed aluminum foil Toyota-Mazda’s upcoming electric car factory is down to ‘3 or 4 locations’ in the US | Electrek Solar drone capable of quasi-perpetual flight tested in the Arctic | Electrek Photo: Waterfall shows off its serene side : TreeHugger Do dogs use facial expressions to communicate? : TreeHugger Bea Johnson says, 'Don't be afraid of Zero Waste!' : TreeHugger Restoring nature is climate equivalent of stopping burning oil : TreeHugger
Part 3 Trees grow on every balcony of this Hanoi university building | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building 11-year old inventor becomes "America's Top Young Scientist" for creating lead-detecting sensor | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Hundreds of mysterious stone structures discovered near ancient volcanoes in Saudi Arabia | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building 3,000 new solar-powered homes in Arizona to be equipped with Sonnen batteries | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Amazon’s Jeff Bezos inaugurates an impressive new wind farm | Electrek EV simplicity wins: Consumer Reports names new Bolt most reliable car in Chevy’s line | Electrek China breaking all solar power records, aiming for 50GW in 2017 | Electrek SunPower’s high efficiency solar panels win 500MW+ worth of French national bids during complex year | Electrek Photo: Tiny frog lives in a vanishing world : TreeHugger 36 baby giant pandas make their roly-poly public debut : TreeHugger The paper in this notebook is made from stone : TreeHugger Sweden offers a 25% subsidy for electric bike purchases : TreeHugger
Part 4 LEGO launches Women of NASA set | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Light-manipulating algae could boost solar power technology | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Solar-powered skyscraper with “world’s tallest ceramic facade” unveiled for Dubai | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Portable fog-harvesting AQUAIR harvests clean drinking water from thin air | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Solar must lead ‘universal energy access’ by 2030, says IEA | Electrek Tesla wins contract to supply Powerpacks at world’s first solar+wind+storage project | Electrek World’s first floating wind farm goes live in Scotland | Electrek EGEB: $121/year to keep coal away, 50 year floating solar, India’s largest energy storage, more | Electrek 7 items for zero waste travel : TreeHugger Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics praises Apple, scolds Amazon : TreeHugger Biofit creates healthy, nature-inspired gyms using biophilic design (Video) : TreeHugger The world's 11 certified Dark Sky Reserves, where the stars run riot : TreeHugger
Part 5 The world's first floating wind farm just switched online | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building World's first 3D-printed bridge opens in the Netherlands | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Toyota and Mazda establish a new company for electric cars | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Greening the Earth could fight climate change as efficiently as cutting fossil fuels | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building A boat equipped with a new electric outboard motor crushes marathon record | Electrek Solar farm in a box – 500 homes worth of solar power in a standardized kit | Electrek Winning Swiss solar powered ‘Solar Decathlon’ home wants to feed, clean and protect you | Electrek EGEB: Rooftop solar saved 7 million people 4.4¢/kWh; wind beating(?) coal in Texas soon; more | Electrek Photo: Young cedar waxwing boasts an unusual blush : TreeHugger World's first floating wind farm now operating in Scotland : TreeHugger OLED lighting makes a beautiful chandelier : TreeHugger Whales and dolphins have complex relationships and call each other by name : TreeHugger
Part 6 Toronto's waterfront to undergo major futuristic redesign thanks to Google's Sidewalk Labs | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Spectacular origami pavilion made of recycled plastic pops up in Columbus, Indiana | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Bloomberg gives $64 million to anti-coal campaign | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Stanford sodium-based battery could be more cost-effective than lithium | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building New wind turbine efficiency so great utilities ‘repowering’ farms early | Electrek Toyota unveils new electric vehicle concepts that will never go to production | Electrek EGEB: Coal closing; Vikram Solar breaks 19%; Solar soap opera; more | Electrek Tesla starts shipping Powerpacks to Puerto Rico | Electrek Sentinel-5P puts eyes in the sky to monitor progress in reducing atmospheric pollution : TreeHugger 10 of the world's most inspiring trees : TreeHugger Putting kids to bed is hard work, but it's not lost time : TreeHugger Stockholm's new bike share will offer 5,000 electric bikes & cost just $33 per year : TreeHugger
Part 7 Undulating green-roofed resort gets green light for coastal Turkey town | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building California becomes first state to require pet stores to sell rescue animals | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Villagers in Peru stumble across what may be an ancient Incan city | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building This startup is training crows to throw away cigarette butt litter | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Alphabet deployed emergency LTE to Puerto Rico w/ Project Loon in under a month | 9to5Google Apple enabling emergency AT&T LTE in Puerto Rico using Google’s Project Loon balloons | 9to5Mac Greenpeace report praises Apple’s closed-loop supply chain goal, slams device repairability | 9to5Mac Dog Facial Expressions Are Directed at Humans - Seeker Photo: Elephant seal in the midst of sand flipping : TreeHugger Odin the dog protects his goats during Sonoma fire, takes in baby deer too : TreeHugger Artist's life-like insect sculptures are made with bamboo : TreeHugger Gucci will go fur-free in 2018 : TreeHugger
Part 8 Google maps the solar system for armchair space travelers | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building The fearless dog who refused to leave his goats during the Santa Rosa wildfire | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building More than 50% of New York City’s public schools now have gardens | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Stefano Boeri Architects envisions a Vertical Forest City on Mars | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building A Black Butterfly’s Wings Point the Way Toward Better Solar Cells - Seeker World’s First Floating Wind Farm Begins Generating Energy Off Scottish Coast - Seeker Cassini's Final Days Produced a Burst of Fresh Science - Seeker Planet Nine May Be the Best Explanation for ‘Weirdness’ of Kuiper Belt Objects - Seeker A Cheaper, Faster Way for Growing Human Brain Cells - Seeker Photo: The Urederra is what fairytales are made of : TreeHugger A biotech breakthrough hopes to save bananas from extinction : TreeHugger Waste Reduction Week reminds us to think circular year-round : TreeHugger
Part 9 Scientists witnessed a neutron star ‘mashup’ for the first time - and it transformed our understanding of the universe | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Nike calls "Flyleather" its most sustainable leather material yet | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Huge battery in the UK holds the energy equivalent of 500K smartphone batteries | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building Northern Europe’s largest aquarium unveiled for former Oslo airport site | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building ‘Farm in a Box’ Could Protect Food Supplies After Extreme Weather Events - Seeker Clouds, snails and super coral could save the Great Barrier Reef - CNET Project Loon brings limited internet access to Puerto Rico - CNET NASA installs a sweet new HD camera on the space station - CNET Toyota's Concept-i Series Can Read Your Emotions | News & Opinion | PCMag.com Mysterious Molecules Detected On Saturn During Cassini's Grand Finale Dive - ExtremeTech Scientists Detect Massive Caverns on Moon That Could House Colony - ExtremeTech Mapping the Great Barrier Reef with cameras, drones and NASA tech - CNET
Part 10 Uranus is going to look really cool Thursday night -- no joke - CNET We can still save Great Barrier Reef from climate change, bleaching - CNET NASA shares stunning panorama of Saturn's rings - CNET Toyota Concept-i family enhances your mobility in style - Roadshow NASA study will help identify potentially habitable planets Newly-discovered lunar cave would be great for a moon base Amazon’s largest wind farm yet is up and running in Texas Google honors the man who discovered the fate of dead stars 'Mythbusters' reboot comes to Science Channel on November 15th Toyota applies long range fuel cell tech to its latest minivan concept The robots that will sweep Earth's skies 'Women of NASA' Lego set available starting November 1st
Part 11 Toyota announces it's in a new industry - Roadshow Google Maps spaces out with 12 new planets and moons - CNET Toyota Concept-i Ride makes mobility easier for disabled drivers - Roadshow London's new electric black cabs hit the streets Bigelow Aerospace plans an inflatable habitat for lunar orbit Intel proposes a mathematical formula for self-driving car safety Explore (most of) the solar system in Google Maps
