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| Sun plants pods for sustainability and savings
(InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Thanks to a massive datacenter consolidation, hardware refresh, and creative, energy-efficient facility design, Sun has reduced power capacity demand by 75 percent at its Santa Clara, Calif., datacenter alone, saving $1.1 million per year in energy costs, while increasing its datacenter processing power more than four times. YahooTechNews [..] |
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Call For Questions: Urban Sustainability  Scott Kellogg, founder of Austin’s Rhizome Collective, just released a cutting-edge book on urban sustainability. Rust, short for Radical Urban Sustainability Toolbox, is a how-to guide for reducing your footprint and improving your quality of life without having to move into the boondocks.
He’s agreed to spend some time speaking with me, and I’d like [...] [..] |
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More demanding plants: "Florakel"  It seems like plants may be the next “robots” when it comes to taking over our world. We saw the Twitter Plant in a previous post. This version is a bit simpler, but it gets some of the same information across to the owner. By using a series of RGB LED’s, the plant can tell [...] [..] |
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| Showcase: Augmented Ecologies This project uses a variety of sensors, Max/MSP, Jitter, and an Arduino to create an interactive virtual environment. I like the augmented plants. When the user touches the plants they create different types of musical notes. Another favorite part is the pressure sensitive moss. There is a lot more information and pictures on the website.
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| Swiss ponder the ‘dignity of plants’ Biotech guidelines tackle thorny issue
A Swiss government ethics committee has issued guidelines on the thorny issue of the “dignity of plants” in relation to biotech research after the country’s 2004 Gene Technology Law declared that “the dignity of creatures” should be considered in any grant-funded research.
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Austin Event: Earthen Plasters  Design~Build~Live is one of a healthy number of groups in Austin doing their part to fill us all in on the ‘no-brainers’ of sustainability: measures where you don’t make a sacrifice to green your life but rather end up with a ‘better than polluting’ outcome. To steal a Worldchanging catchphrase, they’re trying to create [...] [..] |
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| Sony's New PS3...Gardening Game [Shiki-Tei]
Sony announced yesterday the impending release of Shiki-Tei, a new downloadable title for the the PlayStation 3. Basic gist? You get a garden. You grow plants in the garden. Animals hang out in your garden. [..] |
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Taxidermy and plant takeover installation  Plugimi @ We Make Money Not Art writes:
Artist and taxidermist Reid Peppard’s narrative environment Not With a Bang but a Whimper asks what would happen if we just ended today. Set in the office of someone mysterious who had a taste for stuffed rats (or did they conduct experiments on them?), plants are taking over [...] [..] |
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| Oz man cracks one off while speeding in drug-packed car Films himself on the job, too
An Australian man unsurprisingly faces a spell in jail after cops pulled him for driving at 147km/h (91 mph) in a Holden SV6 packed with 5kg of cannabis, two dope plants, a couple of drug pipes and a loaded .22 rifle.
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| Make a Thermal WaterWall This is an interesting way to make a thermal wall for those really sunny windows in your home. I really like the idea of adding plants to the water, but I am not sure how they will break down over time, it might turn into a mess. [Thanks gnomic]
Learn more about making a Thermal WaterWall
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How To: Make A Table Using Old Magazines  This is a great project that can be made in about 10 minutes. I like the idea a lot, but I am not going to be using my collection of MAKE Magazines!
If there’s anything we have too many of in our apartment, it’s magazines and plants. So we solved the problem by re-purposing six magazines [...] [..] |
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| EDF circles British nuclear powerplant sites Buys farmland to secure juice futures
French nuclear energy colossus EDF, which also operates various types of non-nuclear generation in the UK, has been buying up farmland close to existing British nuke plants.
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| Google and Microsoft have nothing on - drum roll - the SuperNAP A $350m data center giant in the desert
Exclusive $500m. That’s the going rate for a data smelter these days. You know, a facility run by a company such as Google or Microsoft that moves bits around and consumes more power than old-school metal processing plants.
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