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more about #ecofriendly more comments → cylon_conspiracy: I take it this io9's response to the CRU email leaks. I was wondering if/when you'd acknowledge the story. Now I have my answer. "Deafening Silence." ... more » Im_your_Huckleberry: "It's an interesting contrast, but maybe not a contradiction: He worries what we're doing to the planet, but he's also celebrated the way we're transf... more » dabismail001: Melting icebergs don't raise sea levels. more » BangarangRufio867: I'm really confused. How does little Emily go from 1st grade to 2nd grade in less than a year? This little Emily does make you think about ice melti... more » Jes St.Lawrence: Just waiting on someone from the Billy Bob School of Thermodynamics and Swine Management to come tell us it's all a hoax. more » iCurmudgeon: Reminds me of the pods in Logan's Run. more » ParryLost: And then of course there is the solution from Elizabeth Bear's Carnival: Build AIs that will save the planet... by literally taking apart every human ... more » NotChoinski: Hooray! You're reading Lem! more » jbq: If they ever did a sequel to Highlander, I hope they wouldn't let it involve Connor MacLeod designing a force field to shield the earth from solar ra... more » foolish-rain: re: Restart the Gulf Stream. Sure, it hits -50 in Washington and the world leaps into action. What is the world doing about the -50 temperatures we c... more » The_Sporean_Bob: Here's an an idea: make humans at least slightly autotrophic, i.e. make us photosynthetic, so we don't eat nearly as much. that way you need fewer me... more » LittleDragon: Lets just do a controlled eruption of Yellowstone so it sends enough ash in to the air to lower the temperature. We can do that, right? Right? more » dazoid: SAVE THE TURTLES! more » darthsodomizer: The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths more » WestMantooth: Drop a bomb on the ozone. That's the American way. more » -
#ecodystopia
Photographer Documents Melting Icecaps, Celebrates Our Cyborg Evolution
Photographer James Balog is best known for his death-defying trips to Iceland, Greenland and Alaska, where he's documented the melting icecaps using photos and time-lapse images. But he's also made stunning images of cyborgs and "techno sapiens." More » -
#triviagasm
10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
Hot enough for ya? Our crazy fossil-fuel orgy is driving the planet's temperatures through the roof. Good thing science fiction books and movies have come up with 10 can't-fail solutions (well, maybe they'd work) for stopping global warming. More » -
#greenpunk
Could Greenpunk be the New Steampunk?
Steampunk's Victorian and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with its imagined technologies has captured the imagination of designers, hobbyists, and writers. Now a literary publicist hopes to launch the same kind of movement for green technologies. More » -
#naturespurifier
Purify Your Dirty Bathwater With An In-House Marsh
Who needs the city's purification system, when you can just build a eco-friendly filtering system right in your bathroom? Water full of mosquito eggs not included. More » -
#fabricsofthefuture
An Iridescent Butterfly Gives Rise To Naturally Bright Fabrics Of The Future
This is the blue morpho butterfly, which has a cool alien-sounding name, but also has inspired a new biomimetic fabric that refracts light like the butterfly's wings. It's just one of the eco-friendly future fabrics. More » -
#quoteoftheday
The Best Green Technology Is Population Control
"I don't see our environmental ills as a failure of technical capacity. Many technologies can have a positive effect on the environment; the problem is us, and where we tend to focus our innovative energy. More » -
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#cars
Car Of 2017 Will Mix High-Tech With No-Tech
The car of the future will have sleek plastic on the outside, but hand-woven seats on the inside. Harsha Ravi's designs for the car of 2017 won Wheels magazine's design prize. They're an awesome mixture of high-tech (cutting-edge carbon-neutral bioplastic) with zero-tech. It's all part of an urban car that's customizeable and cheap, but also green. More »
