The New York City Fire Department is proposing charging fees for it to respond to certain calls. Some of the fees could cost as much as $500. (Dec. 10)
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images credit aat+makoto yokomizo architects TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it “LifeEdited.” You can help: Enter the LifeEdited design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and the opportunity to design the apartment! You really need to have a life edited to live in these tiny Japanese apartments designed by
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Well, the Italian actress and model wants to show you how animals seduce each other. That’s the idea behind her new series of short films ‘Green Porno: Seduce Me.’ (Dec. 10)
Continue reading …The Week in Pictures: Climate Change to Kill 5 Million People by 2020, Solar-Powered Hornets, and More (Slideshow)
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Last week, a boat in the Amazon spilled around 210,000 gallons of popcorn into a major river, making the surface of the water look a bit like the floor of a movie theater. Find out how oil workers came to the rescue, below, and read on for more stories from the world of green, including photos of the beautiful Miluira Retro Electric Roadster from Japan, an exclusive peak inside Michelle Kaufmann ‘s Smart Home at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the story of a woman who has used the same Christmas tree every year since 1928, and more on those solar-powered hornets. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Solid-state lasers are fine, durable and reliable and all that, but what if you want something a little softer, maybe a little more conforming to your needs and moods? Or, what if you want something that can beam light in all directions at once ? Then you need to go liquid, baby, liquid. That’s what Slovenian scientists (and diacritic wunderkinds) Matjaž Humar and Igor Muševič have done, creating, in their words, “3D microlasers from self-assembled cholesteric liquid-crystal microdroplets.” Various layers of fluids form what’s called a Bragg-onion optical microcavity, including embedded crystals not unlike those that flip the tiny switches in an LCD . These blobs are self-assembled chemically and, when a little laser is applied to them, can create a 3D image by shining their light in every dimension simultaneously. Well, not every one — you know the Fifth Dimension can only be seen if you let the sunshine in. World’s first 3D microlaser created, has a gooey Bragg-onion center originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Image via Google ChromeOS video Google has launched the ChromeOS laptop , which is built for working on the web — you are mainly on the cloud using Google Docs and other programs while working from the laptop. As such, your data is constantly saved in the cloud, rather than on a laptop, so you’re not at risk of losing data should your computer crash. This isn’t a surprise — for anyone who has ever used a Google Docs program, it’s a big duh that you can access your data from any computer, and don’t lose it if yo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: mjb84 via flickr One more item to add to the list of reasons it’s getting harder to hate Walmart : its Acres for America program is working to preserve hundreds of thousands of acres of wildlife habitat…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in an Oslo ceremony derided by Beijing as a political farce, and dedicated it from his prison cell to the “lost souls” of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. US President Barack Obama, a Peace Prize laureate last year, called on Beijing for the prompt release of 54-year-old Liu, who was jailed last year for 11 years for subversion. In Beijing, police stepped up patrols at key points on Friday, including Tiananmen Square, where witnesses say hundreds or thousands were killed when troops crushed reform protests, and Liu’s apartment where his wife is believed to be under house arrest. Authorities tightened a clampdown on…
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Image credit: Friends of the Earth UK While some see it as the only viable way to curb our carbon emissions, and there is evidence that the EU’s carbon trading scheme has helped reduce emissions , the fact that the global carbon market has grown to over $136 billion has some people worried. Very worried. Given the ongoing fall out from the latest financial crisis, and the
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Student protesters attack royal car in London; Wesley Snipes begins jail sentence at Pennsylvania prison; Becki Newton gives birth to baby boy. (Dec.10)
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