By: penoverweb
A Different Kind of Container Store
12/26/2011A rendering of a new Starbucks store in Seattle that was built primarily of four used shipping containers. Starbucks is about…
Read MoreScarlett Johansson Talks Poverty and Politics
12/26/2011Although she may be best known for her quirky film roles and sultry looks, Scarlett Johansson is much more than a pretty…
Read More2011: The Year in Environmental Disasters
12/26/2011by Alex Davies, After last year’s BP oil spill and other environmental disasters, hopes were high that 2011 would be a better year….
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VIDEO: See How Painting Mountains in Peru is Slowly Bringing Back Lost Glaciers
12/26/2011by Tafline Laylin, When we first learned about Eduardo Gold’s plan to paint the Peruvian Andes white in order to deflect heat back…
Read MoreThree Popular Children’s Cereals Contain More Sugar Than a Twinkie
12/23/2011By Gina-Marie Cheeseman, An Environmental Working Group (EWG) review of 84 popular cereal brands found that three popular children’s cereals contain more sugar…
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Félix Guyon’s Fold-Away Chair Can Be Hung On the Wall Like Art
12/23/2011by Helen Morgan, Designed by Félix Guyon for La Firme, the Label chair is a cool and customizable version of a clasic fold-up seat….
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Does This ‘Hydrogen-Powered’ Luxury Boat Break the Laws of Physics?
12/23/2011by Michael Graham Richard, Hydrogen from Water = Energy Storage There’s a supposedly “hydrogen-powered” luxury boat that has been making the…
Read MoreUS adds more billion-dollar disasters to 2011 list
12/23/2011By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com Just last August the federal officials who track weather disasters said 2011 would go down as a…
Read MoreThe Most Haunting 2-Minute Film You’ll Ever See About Energy Waste
12/23/2011by Brian Merchant, “Light”, an ethereal video short from David Parker, presents a dark new visual context for wasted energy. What…
Read MorePresident Obama Announces $4 Billion in Energy Upgrades to Existing Buildings
12/23/2011by Brit Liggett, Yesterday, President Obama and former president Bill Clinton announced a combined $4 billion commitment in public and private funding for…
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