EcoModo – The simplest of Treehugger [Roundups]

Geeks Without borderlines calls for assistance from all golden-hearted geeks, a plant it is dependent on Facebook ” Likes” for its survival, Notre Dame hands out iPads to its students rather than textbooks, and more.

Geeks Borderless Set on Saving Lives With Technology

How one organization will keep those in crisis connected to aid – and how one can be a part of it.

MIT Creates Self-Assembling Solar Cells That Repair Themselves

MIT researchers believe they’ve discovered a way to use this self-assembly to restore solar cells damaged by the sun.

” Meet Eater” – the Plant That Lives on Social Media

Every time this plant makes a pal on Facebook, an electronic system delivers water and nutrients. No friends, no love? Dead plant. Unhappy Meet Eater.

Is the UK's First Green Cell Rating System Bending the principles?

The argument is that because a sensible phone can take over for multiple other gadgets, they’re therefore greener. a legitimate point, but ok to call them green over another standard cellular phone?

Notre Dame Begins Test Run of iPads With a Paperless Course

The University of Notre Dame is taking using e-readers in classrooms seriously, embarking on a one year study of the way the devices integrate into classrooms.

HP Competition Winner Has Rooftop Farms, Plugin Units

The HP Skyline 2020 competition ” outlined fresh visual imaginations for the skyline discarding preconceived notions” and ” allowed students and professionals to partner and elucidate their visions and designs that will change the skyline thereby transforming the town itself.”

Urban Arrow: A Reinvented Cargo Bike With An Electric Boost

We have admired Bakfiets, the gigantic Dutch cargo bikes that carry kids around the Netherlands, before; Warren noted that they’ve a low centre of gravity and are very stable, and doubtless are lots safer than kids’ seats on bikes.

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