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  1. Solatube – Room Brightening Tunnels

    by EcoWorld Editorial Staff on July 31, 2008

    Nothing beats natural light. And nothing is more depressing than a gloomy room forced into darkness by the neighbor’s wall. Windows help add warmth to any room, while the natural lighting allows homeowners to run around the house without the need to turn on as many lights. Not only that, but the ventilation provided by [...]



  2. Robotic Lobsters Sniff Out Pollution

    by EcoWorld Editorial Staff on July 29, 2008

    Throw a fish carcass into a submersible trap, and the ocean’s crabs and lobsters are the first to arrive for a full meal before realizing that they’ve been caught. Lobsters and crabs smell by dragging their antennules through the water where chemosensory hairs on the ends of these antennules come into contact with odor molecules. [...]



  3. Green Building Blocks

    by Ed Ring on

    It is getting hard to keep track of all the credible companies delivering advanced structural building materials. It’s fine to call something “green” that has a high recycled materials content, low embodied energy, doesn’t offgas unhealthy toxins, doesn’t include toxic materials, and has superb insulation value, but this is only half the story. [...]



  4. Scare du Jour Redux

    by EcoWorld Editorial Staff on July 27, 2008

    Back in June, I wrote a blog entitled “The Scare-du-Jour” discussing the latest big food scare in the U.S., i.e., an FDA (Food and Drug Administration) dire warning that eating tomatoes probably is the cause of Salmonella poisoning in what has now been guessed to be over 1,200 people all over the country over a [...]



  5. The Tibetan Plateau

    by EcoWorld Editorial Staff on July 26, 2008

    The rooftop of the world, the land of snows… with an average elevation of 4000 meters (over 13,000 feet), the Tibetan Plateau is the highest and largest plateau on earth. The plants and animals there are unique– the snow leopard, Tibetan antelope, Tibetan gazelle, Bengal tiger, wild yak, blue sheep, brown bear, and black-necked crane, [...]



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