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Hide-A-Porsche Parking System Leaves Your Front Yard Green
Green Lifestyle  (tags: cars, city, design, cool stuff, technology )

Scarlett
- 310 days ago - treehugger.com
Many municipalities do not allow front yard parking, so this device drops your Porsche into an underground parking space and leaves only a green roof visible to the public.
Zira Island Is Zero Energy
Green Lifestyle  (tags: architecture, design, azerbaijan, designers, solar, wind power, zero energy )

Scarlett
- 310 days ago - treehugger.com
Sort of a Masdar with mountains, Zira Island is a zero energy resort and entertainment city designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, on an island in the Caspian Sea off Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. It is designed to mimic "the seven peaks of Azerbaijan."
Organic Food Sales Still Growing Despite Economic Woes
Green Lifestyle  (tags: food, food system, fruits and vegetables, local food, organic food )

Scarlett
- 310 days ago - treehugger.com
It's a good bet that any industry that is still growing in these economic times is in pretty good shape. Industry watchers suggest that the core organic consumer isn't jumping ship, they're just being more careful with their food dollars.
8 Tree Houses Fit for TreeHuggers (Slideshow)
Green Lifestyle  (tags: Design, Architecture, Housing, sustainable, organic, interesting, green, coolstuff, eco-friendly )

Scarlett
- 316 days ago - treehugger.com
Looking for some inspiration to ditch your digs and follow the dream of youth? Get lost in these trees with sustainable spheres and reclaimed creations.
Mari-Fuel
Green Lifestyle  (tags: alternative energy, alternative fuels, marifuel, oceans, technology, sea weed )

Scarlett
- 318 days ago - treehugger.com
Lloyd reported on the Japanese innovation of using seaweed to produce electricity way back in '06. And John wrote about the potential of mariculture, the practice of cultivating seaweed, for fuel feedstock instead of harvesting wild seaweed.
NPower PEG Harnesses Kinetic Energy in a Stick
Green Lifestyle  (tags: Science, Technology, alternative energy, energy, coolstuff )

Scarlett
- 323 days ago - treehugger.com
A new kinetic energy-harnessing device was launched at CES 2009. Called the nPower PEG (Personal Energy Generator), its a stick you can shake to generate enough energy to power your mobile devices.
Organic Farm at the White House?
Green Lifestyle  (tags: WhiteHouse, Obama, Organic, eco-friendly, environment, food, garden, green, greenliving, health, healthy, Sustainabililty, sustainable )

Laurel
- 325 days ago - thewhofarm.org
Daniel Bowman Simon and Casey Gustowarow are on a cross country mission in a topsy turvy bus to convince the new President to establish an organic farm at the White House.
A Troubling Trend in Global Warming Denial on the Internet
Green Lifestyle  (tags: climate-change, ClimateChange, climate, climatechange, CO2emissions, globalwarming, globalwarming, research, CO2emissions, eco-friendly, environment, greenliving, globalwarming, interesting, Sustainabililty, society )

Peter
- 328 days ago - desmogblog.com
Find out some interesting facts about how the internet has transformed the way we need to tackle climate change. You need to help stop climate change online. Find out how you can help in the Care2 group: Climate Action.
10 T-Shirt Designs That Do the Talking for You (Slideshow)
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, message, message tee-shirts, design, slideshow, conversation starters )

Scarlett
- 328 days ago - treehugger.com
What catches sweat at the gym, is trendy under a blazer, keeps you warm in winter, and can sum up your personality in 5 seconds flat? The good 'ol t-shirt. ...These tees are sure to fire up conversation -and maybe even score you a date.
Kokage House Built From Tree-Shaped Parts
Green Lifestyle  (tags: architecture, design, prefab, eco-friendly, interesting, coolstuff, CoolStuff )

Scarlett
- 328 days ago - treehugger.com
"Kokage" means shade of a tree. Hirokazu Suemitsu and Yoko Suemitsu of SUEP have designed a house built from structural partitions that spread out like a tree to carry a canopy that acts as the roof.
 
 
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