Ariel Schwartz

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  The Best of Fast Company: SocialCycling, Wal-Mart's Sustainable Pizza Box, and GMO Soybeans Get Healthy

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  The Best of Fast Company: A Green Version of the Red Wagon, Electronic Polar Bears, and the Freedom Leg

  This week at Fast Company, we looked at a Silicon Valley designer's green take on the little red wagon, a zoo that replaced real polar bears with electronic versions, a prosthetic leg that replaces crutches, and Joule Biotechnologies' attempt to make

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  The Best of Fast Company: BP's Bid to Move Beyond Petroleum, Growing Algae in Abandoned Mines, and a Green Makeover for the Humvee

  This week at Fast Company, we looked at BP's move into next-generation biofuels, a plan to grow algae quickly and efficiently in abandoned mines, EnerDel's hybrid makeover of the Humvee, and the world's tallest green building.

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  The Best of Fast Company: China Dominates Texas Wind Power, Plastic Made Out of Algae, and the Future of Trucking

  This week at Fast Company, we looked at China's entry into the Texas wind power industry, Cereplast's plastic made out of algae, the long-term future of trucking, and a proposal to build floating cities in the Netherlands.

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  The Best of Fast Company: OceanWorks International Airport, Health Care in the Developing World, and Global Warming PR Stunts

  This week at Fast Company, we looked at a proposed offshore airport in San Diego, creative health care ideas for the developing world, global warming PR stunts, and the Bournemouth Reef.

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  The Best of Fast Company: Ethical Halloween Candy, Bunnies for Biofuel, and a Twitter Taxi

  This week at Fast Company, we looked at the most sustainable Halloween candy, whether it makes sense to burn rabbits for biofuel, Green Tomato Cars' Twitter taxi service, and 6 ways Google has greened its main campus.

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  The Best of Fast Company: Farm-Fresh Vending Machines, Obama's Agri-Biz Ties, and the Carbon War Room

  German vending machines offer farm-fresh produce and dairy products, Obama nominates bigtime agri-biz execs to key agriculture posts, Richard Branson's Carbon War Room tries to slow down climate change, and eco-friendly roofs go mainstream, all this

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  The Best of Fast Company: Cloud Computing, Crowdsourced City Design, and the Greenest Brands Chosen By You

  This week at Fast Company, we looked at the sustainable qualities of cloud computing, ideas for San Francisco city design crowdsourced from the locals, a list of green brands chosen by consumers, and a major US military purchase of biofuels.

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  The Best of Fast Company: A Distorted View of Climate Change, Ultra-Fortified Rice, and a Test Drive of the Wheego Whip

  This week at Fast Company, we looked at an unsuccessful attempt to champion global warming, talked to the people behind PATH's fortified rice for developing countries, took a spin in the Wheego Whip EV, and evaluated Newsweek's green company

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  The Best of Fast Company: Jellyfish-Infused Space Candy, Household Upcycled Robots, and a High Line for San Francisco

  This week at Fast Company, Japanese students crush up invasive jellyfish into candy, Adoptabot upcycled robots make great pets, architects propose a High Line for San Francisco, and PNC Bank finishes the largest green living wall in North

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  The Best of Fast Company: The Farmer's Market of the Future, a Solar Ear for the Deaf, and a New Use for Old Telephone Booths

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  The Best of Fast Company: A Hotel-Like Homeless Hostel, KFC Gets a Kind Makeover, and Swine Flu Tracking Comes to the iPhone

  This week at Fast Company, we profiled a swanky homeless hostel, pondered the transformation of a KFC into a marijuana dispensary, watched as swine flu hysteria spread to the iPhone, and examined an initiative to dole out well water with cell phone

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  The Best of Fast Company: USPS Gets Efficient, An Astrofurf FAIL, and New Ideas for Existing Energies

  This week at Fast Company, we looked at the U.S. Postal Service's cash-saving energy efficiency initiatives, the American Petroleum Institute's failed astroturf event, a natural gas taxi plan from T. Boone Pickens, and the future of modular nuclear

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  TreeHugger Welcomes Ariel Schwartz of Fast Company!

  Ariel Schwartz is a daily contributor at FastCompany.com, the Technology Editor for Inhabitat, and a blogger for a number of sustainability-themed websites. Before taking up a career in online journalism, she worked in publishing, organic farming,