Windbelt - Third World Power - Wind Generator - Popular Mechanics. cool demo.

Flush With Energy - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com. we could replace USA with Canada in this article just as easily. via boris.

Architect video home tour in San Diego. lots of great design elements. really like the floor LED lights on the stairs.

A clever solution to a critical problem - (37signals). covering a reservoir with 400,000 plastic balls.

More commercial bee colonies lost - CNN.com “A survey of bee health released Tuesday revealed a grim picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation’s commercially managed hives lost since last year.”. That’s up from 32% last year.

Green Enterprise Toronto. business association to think local and green.

Earth Hour crashes to Earth | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog “But here’s the awareness it should raise: how difficult it is to get even a tiny cut in just electricity use for one lousy hour, in a country responsible for just 1.5 per cent of the world’s emissions.”

The Accidental Environmentalists “A chronic problem with employee retention led this pragmatic client to building green.” crade to cradle mentioned people leaving and returning to work for Herman Miller because of nice their facilities are.

TheStar.com | Antarctic ice shelf collapses “A chunk of Antarctic ice about the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed”. yikes. via kyle.

toronto’s anti green energy rates. oh toronto.

Nine Cities, Nine Ideas - WSJ.com. on green energy.

Red Dot Campaign | Say NO to Junk Mail. get canada post to not give you junk mail. i totally need something like this.

The Informed Reader : A Novel Way to Cut Waste: Lose the Cafeteria Trays “food and beverage waste dropped between 30% and 50% on two days when trays were removed.”

The Afterlife of Cellphones - New York Times. on the global pachinko machine of used cell phones.

Let My People Go Surfing. an excerpt from a new management book by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia and a personal hero of mine.

Amazon.com officially building a campus in South Lake Union. really time to buy property down in the SLU. The new campus will be certified LEED Gold or Silver.

Senate Approves Trimmed - Back Energy Bill - New York Times. requires fleet average of 35MPG by 2020. That’s easy for cars by todays standards, definitely not for SUVs and trucks.

New Belgium Brewery Process Water Treatment Facility. nice cradle-to-cradle design.

NatureMill: Automatic Indoor Composter. $300 for indoor version. $400 for outdoor one that also handles pet poop. I was trying to find something like this back in september.

Reduce Reuse Recycle: My phobia of marriage: shark fins. on chinese wedding culture and eating shark fins. via ram.