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If you thought $4 gas was bad, imagine actually paying the full cost—which is closer to $15 per gallon, according to CIR. Read the rest here: The True Cost of Gasoline is Closer to $15 a Gallon...Better Rescue Robots Mi...
Rescue robots could come in snake-like forms, thanks to research looking at how slithering could be a better way for robots to move up an inclined plane. See original here: Better Rescue Robots Mimic Snakes’ Great...The Huge Promise of Loc...
Walmart stores via Flickr / CC BY 2.0 As Americans, we’re conditioned to think big. Big houses, big cars, big screens. Big, centralized power plants that blast energy to our big cities and big suburbs. But there’s a compelling argument to be made for breaking with that paradigm, and starting to think smaller. Of course, that applies to all of the above, but let’s focus on power generation…. Read the full story on TreeHugger Here is the original post: The...Food Insecurity on the ...
© GOOD Food insecurity rose from 10.1% to 14.7% between 1999 and 2009. This means that the number of households that had trouble getting enough food for the family rose by 4.6%. While that took a slight dip to 14.5% in 2010, it is still far too high. So who is going hungry, and where? An infographic from GOOD spills the details. … Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more: Food Insecurity on the Rise...There’s No Such T...
yardboidoroony /Video screen capture As a general rule, I tend to get nervous when I hear about a “permaculture song”. While permaculture design may have brought us such genius innovations as chicken tunnel cultivation and working swimming pools growing fish and algae , most permaculture-inspired music I have heard tends to lean too heavily on worthy sentiment and e… Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: There’s No Such Thing As Waste: A...