Clean Tech twitterers- Waxy: Craigslist shuts down adult services section September 3, 201017 Attorneys General asked them last month to shut it down […]
- Engadget: Sharp's 10.2-inch parallax barrier display makes us love our 3D glasses (video) September 3, 2010Now that the Nintendo 3DS is announced using a parallax barrier display, we bet that many of you were hoping to see a 10-inch 3D tablet or laptop with a similar glasses-less display. Hell, we were... until we actually saw Sharp's prototype 10.2-inch parallax barrier display here at IFA in Berlin. Unfortunately, the panel at this larger size suffers f […]
- Techcrunch: Hate The iTunes 10 Icon? Think You Can Do Better? September 3, 2010Apple CEO Steve Jobs' obsessive focus on design detail is at least partially responsible for why the tech sphere and the design sphere are so intertwined at the moment. Which makes the ire that he's received for the current iTunes 10 logo (not to mention the foibles of Ping) particularly poignant. The universal hatred for this thing has spawned an […]
- Boing Boing: Canada may send flight data to US Homeland Security September 3, 2010A bill introduced in Canada's House of Commons would give US Department of Homeland Security officials "final say over who may board aircraft in Canada if they are to fly over the United States en route to a third country." (via @ioerror)... […]
- Techcrunch: Craigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down September 3, 2010Bad news for Craigslist users who like to peruse the Erotic Services Adult Services section of their site. It's gone, replaced by a large black and white "censored" logo. I've reached out to Craigslist for comment and await their reply. But the choice of words is significant - the section wasn't simply removed, the censored word was […]
- Boing Boing: Exec at troubled hedge fund busted for operating "complex" weed farm in her home September 3, 2010Teri Buhl at Forbes reports on a sign of the times: "An executive at a billion-dollar Connecticut hedge fund was arrested on felony charges of allegedly running a huge year-round pot farm inside her home. But her boyfriend says the cops have it wrong, that they're goat farmers, not dope farmers." (Image: A CC-licensed photo by Flickr user r0bz […]
- Kottke: The world's highest paid athlete September 3, 2010...was a fellow by the name of Gaius Appuleius Diocles. He was a 2nd-century Roman charioteer. His total take home amounted to five times the earnings of the highest paid provincial governors over a similar period -- enough to provide grain for the entire city of Rome for one year, or to pay all the ordinary soldiers of the Roman Army at the height of its im […]
- Engadget: iOS 4.1 confirmed for September 8th on Apple's UK website September 3, 2010According to Apple's UK website, iOS 4.1 will hit on Wednesday, September 8th. The US website still displays the non-commital "Coming Soon" message, so we'll have to keep our eyes peeled. We're going to go ahead and guess that all those shiny new iPods will come to retail that day too... but don't hold us to that one. Like we s […]
- Google Wave To Live On As 'Wave In a Box' September 3, 2010snydeq writes "Google Wave will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, according to a blog post by Google Wave engineer Alex North. 'We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we've already open sourced (detailed at waveprotocol.org) to flesh out the existing example Wave server and Web client into a more complete applic […]
- Gizmodo: Check if Your Bus is On Time Via QR Codes at DC Bus Stops [Augmented Reality] September 3, 2010Starting today, DC area bus stops are being treated with a bit of augmented reality. Smartphone users can get up-to-the-minute status reports and traffic updates for the bus they're waiting for by using a QR reading app. Convenient! [ReadWriteWeb] More » […]
- Waxy: Craigslist shuts down adult services section September 3, 2010
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- Elephants: India's New "National Heritage Animal" To Receive Same Protection As TigersPhoto: Elephant being bathed in a temple in Thrissur (K.C. Sowmish via The Hindu) As long-standing icons of its unique cultural psyche, India's threatened elephants are finally getting the protection -- and well-deserved recognition -- they need. In a bid for better conservation, earlier this week the Indian government formally declared the elephant its […]
- "Clean Coal" Positioned To Be The High End Energy Product No One Can AffordTaylorville Illinois Energy Center, a proposed "clean coal" power plant. Image credit:Illinois Times Southern Illinois has vast, easily accessible coal reserves. That coal may be sulfurous and wet and salty; but ,Southern Illinois also has good geologic features for CO2 sequestration, plus Presidential root tendrils are there. These aspects explai […]
- Marine Stewardship Council's Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Sayphoto: Mr. T in DC via flickr A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. As is to be expected, MS […]
- The Strangest Sustainability Analogy Ever? Stop Watching Spongebob (Video)Image credit: CosmicRevolutionKS When I interviewed my friend Tim Toben of Greenbridge and Pickards Mountain Ecoinstitute, he suggested it was important that we all "tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by renewable energy -- in poetry, music, art, dance." That's easier said than done […]
- Ecomobile: A Green Mobile Home In A Spiritual Trailer ParkImages unless noted: Findhorn Foundation While following the development of small green prefabs, It has become increasingly clear that you cannot separate the home from the context, and that what we really need is a sort of green trailer park, where people can own their unit but share common resources. It turns out that it exists, and has since 1962; Dr. Gr […]
- A Call for Serious Debate and Action on Our Energy FutureContemporary energy security demands a mixed basket of energy sources. A move from the current carbon energy usage, to a more balanced energy portfolio, delivers this as well as opening up almost unlimited business opportunities and a pathway to creating thousands of green jobs. […]
- Fairground Dung and Leftovers Tested in Waste-to-Energy ProjectWhich waste is the best to convert to energy -- animal dung or leftover funnel cakes, corn dogs, cotton candy and other fairground favorites? That's what a Midwest scientist and a group of researchers are exploring at the Minnesota State Fair. […]
- Portugal Redux: Trade Winds and Sound Policies Push Portugal to the Renewable Energy ForefrontWorldChanging TeamEditor's Note: A couple weeks ago we posted a piece by Alex Aylett reporting on Portugal's impressive percentage of renewable electricity supply. Below, we revisit... […]
- Alexandra Cousteau, the Ocean Ambassador (Podcast)"We all live downstream from one another," says Alexandra Cousteau. In other words, what we do to the water, we do to ourselves. A third-generation Cousteau explorer, Alexandra is an ambassador of the sea. She's the host of Planet Green's Blue August, is currently traveling the world as a documentarian with her organization Blue Legacy, […]
- New York City Inks Contract for Up to 475 Compressed Natural Gas BusesPhoto: New Flyer What's the Difference Between CNG and Diesel? The Board of the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (the "MTA") has awarded New Flyer of America a contract for up to 475 buses. The contract is for 135 40-foot compressed natural gas ("CNG") heavy-duty transit buses with options for up to an additional 340 CNG buse […]
- Elephants: India's New "National Heritage Animal" To Receive Same Protection As Tigers