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Plug and play: The Yves Behar-designed GE WattStation will juice up electric vehicles and spruce up the streets. Oh, the humanity! When Humans Ruled the Earth explores the human consumption machine in animated form. An efficient water solution in the rural West: Farmers and ranchers are replacing windmills with solar power wells. Want to take an exotic holiday AND help the environment? Try one......read more
Here's Canyons' new video for "When I See You Again," the standout track off the Aussie band's Keep Your Dreams LP. Directed by Fleur & Manu, the same team behind some of our favourite clips from the likes of M83 and Sebastien Tellier, the video weaves together a bunch of found footage of friends, lovers, sunshine and memories. The whole thing views like a weird highlight reel of the......read more
The reasons for opposing TransCanada's Keystone XL proposal are as vast as the territory the pipeline aims to cover: climate change, a lack of proper environmental review, destruction of ecosystems, perpetuating our reliance on fossil fuels. But, according to NYT environment reporter Elizabeth Rosenthal, no objection has a hold on the popular imagination like the image of a massive......read more
When I bought the first-generation iPhone, it took me all of four days to leave it in a cab, never to see it again. Meanwhile, the phone it was meant to replace, a not-remotely-smart Nokia brick dating from the previous century, had weathered a drop into a toilet and traveled with me to Europe and back -- twice. It still works. Sound familiar? Maybe not, but there's something to be said for......read more
Thanksgiving is upon us. In an ideal world, we'd be headed out into the steppes this weekend to hunt a wild turkey for the feast. Alas, the closest we'll ever get to a wild turkey is a bottle of bourbon. So we need to know how to buy a turkey that's sustainably raised. Luckily, NRDC Smarter Living has the answers -- and they're as easy as 1-2-3. 1. Always know where your bird came......read more
In the Pacific Northwest, wind power has become an important source of income in rural areas, where energy entrepreneurs are eagerly erecting turbines in windy zones like the Columbia River Gorge. But wind is a volatile beast, and all the new turbines have presented utilities with a problem: when it's storming, the turbines create more electricity than the grid can soak up. In the New York......read more
Designed by the kitchenware brainiacs at Fusion Brands, the Foodpod is the perfect device for boiling, blanching or steaming foods like eggs, veggies, and shellfish. Made of food-safe silicone and BPA-free nylon, it's smart, safe, and easy. Simply place foods in the Foodpod, put in water to cook, then lift from water, let drain (save the cooking water, if you like), and serve. ...read more
All climate scientists agree that sea levels are rising. But there is plenty of debate over how much and how fast. It's tough to keep track of all the shifting predictions, and what they mean in terms of land being submerged. With this infomation graphic, David McCandless, author of 'Information is Beautiful,' sums it up the research for us, showing what will happen, when it will......read more
Tom Zeller for The Huffington Post: Public opinion on the topic of climate change is notoriously fickle, changing -- quite literally sometimes -- with the weather. The latest bit of evidence on this: Yale's April 2013 climate change survey, which found, among other things, that Americans' conviction that global warming is happening had dropped by seven points, to 63 percent, over the preceding......read more
In our cities of glass and pavement, we humans have a tendency to view ourselves as somehow separate from the natural environment. It's nonsense, of course, we are as much a part of the natural order as an elephant or an insect. But it's a powerful facade, one that makes "nature" seem otherworldly, something to be fascinated and repulsed by. Brooklyn-based photographer David Kimelman has......read more
