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  • Waste Not, Want Not: Wax Recycling Candle

    How's this for a sleek implementation of a simple idea: spied at 100% Tokyo, Rice Design has created a real "Why didn't I think of that?" idea. This "candle production machine" collects its own wax drippings from the top candle; burn a couple of

  • Most Huggable: Toyota 2057, Spherical Solar Cells, Cod Collapse, and More

    Goblin shark, viper fish, pistol shrimp: it’s a rough neighborhood down there under the sea. Here are ten creatures you probably never even knew existed…

  • The Toyota i-Real: Concept Vehicle For Whom?

    Per the Wall Street journal, Toyota has one of the "...eco-friendly concept cars to go on display at this year's Tokyo Motor Show, running from Oct. 26 to Nov. 11...The concept cars, though years away from the market, show how Japan's top auto makers

  • "Serious Potential for Accidents"? No Problem, Says EPA

    We know no government agency is impervious to mistakes (or external "pressures"), but this is getting ridiculous: the EPA once again decided to override the concerns of a large body of scientists, including 5 chemistry Nobel laureates, by approving the

  • Pasona O2: Urban Underground Farming

    Two years ago we first covered Tokyo's underground farm; It is called Pasona O2 and was set up as a means of providing agricultural training to young people who are having trouble finding employment and middle-aged people in search of a second career.

  • Love Your Earth: Sustainable Design Competition from designboom

    The folks over at designboom have teamed up with DA - Design Association in Japan to host a collaborative design competition. Called "love your earth", the competition is open to applicants from every country in the world, to professionals, students, and

  • Billboard Building

    We have shown quite a few slender buildings, but Klein Dytham's Billboard Building in Tokyo may be the smallest- eight feet at the big end, two feet at the narrowest, thirty-six feet long. It is also covered in an image of a bamboo grove that controls

  • D&A; Features Green Initiative. CALL FOR APPLICANTS.

    Designers and Agents (D&A;): an international tradeshow in New York, LA, London, and Tokyo, recently launched a major initiative to promote emerging green fashion and furniture designers. D&A;'s NY and LA shows now feature a plentiful and diverse

  • Cataclysmic Climate Change in Second Life

    In an extremely bizarre and ironic twist, fake cities in the popular massively multiplayer game Second Life were submerged by Adventure Ecology to remind folks that there's a real world outside their doors and if Second Life's server farms get flooded,

  • Air Con — And it Might Just Be

    A study by Japanese researchers had found that "air conditioners dump enough heat into the streets to raise the temperature at least 1 to 2ºC." and not only that, but, "heat blasting from the rear-ends of air conditioners is contributing to the

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