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November 01 2011

Electric Avenue

Where we're going, we don't need internal combustion engines.

Photos Of The New Electric DeLorean: Back To The Future Of Cars

It’s no flux capacitor, but the power source for the newest DeLorean are futuristic: batteries. The original model may not have caught on outside of Marty McFly, but perhaps a new electric version will.

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Mapping The Future Of Bad Weather Around The World

Mapping The Future Of Bad Weather Around The World

Risk analysts have created a map showing where climate-induced events like floods, droughts, and storms will hit the hardest. Developing countries are going to have a rough go of it.

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This factory: Not a Gigaton Award winner.

The Oscars Of Carbon Emission Reduction

Carbon War Room’s Gigaton Awards honor the companies doing the most to reduce their emissions. Who took home the trophies this year?

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This Insane Kitchen Of The Future Powers Itself With Leftovers
Photo by: Philips Design Probes
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This Insane Kitchen Of The Future Powers Itself With Leftovers

Photo by: Philips Design Probes

It might look like something from an imaginary steampunk past, but designers at Philips think this could be the low-impact home of the future.

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Taking The Fight Against The Tar Sands Pipeline Back To The White House

Taking The Fight Against The Tar Sands Pipeline Back To The White House

Written by: Bill Mckibben

Before Occupy Wall Street, there were already headline grabbing protests about corporate intrusion in politics. On November 6, the protests against the government’s approval of the proposed to run from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico are headed back to Washington to confront Obama with his own environmental record.

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Instead of waiting to get sick, what if your social networks could warn you about when illness was spreading near you?

Sickweather Knows When You’re Getting The Flu

Using social graphs to track contagion. Good for zombie outbreaks and, more importantly, for winter sicknesses.

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Buy a coffee at Starbucks, leave $5 to create local jobs.

Lattes For Jobs: Starbucks Solicits Donations To Invest In Communities

Starbucks wants to create some jobs. But the coffee behemoth isn’t planning to hire a battalion of new baristas, instead it is launching a plan to dabble in microfinance. Starting today, customers at the roughly 7,000 company-owned cafes will be able to donate to a community finance fund that will give low-interest loans to job-creating projects at the local level.

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This looks like any old bridge, but it's made from 100% recycled plastic.

Bottles To Bridges: Making Infrastructure From Recycled Plastic

Welsh company Vertech thinks it has cracked the code on "thermoplastics," which might soon be deployed in building all sorts of projects. As long as this bridge doesn’t fall down first.

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