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The World’s Smallest Solar-Powered Movie Theater

by Seedorama Staff November 12, 2010

Not only is the Sol Cinema a solar-powered movie house, but it’s also absurdly tiny.The cinema, converted two berth caravan from the 1960′s, seats eight adults or twelve children. Sol Cinema was commissioned by the media arts charity Undercurrents. It runs on four large lithium ion batteries charged by two 120W solar panels. Undercurrents encourages people to [...]

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Buying A Green Car? Cloud Now Included

by Seedorama Staff November 10, 2010

The Millennial generation is usually described as both environmentally conscious and tech savvy. New collaboration between Dell and Clemson University’s engineering students can now help Millennials satisfy both their priorities  with an ultra-green BMW hybrid with a cell phone — and cloud-based infotainment system. Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) and Dell’s engineering solutions division produced a cool BMW hybrid with an [...]

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PETA To Sponsor Lindsay Lohan’s Rehabs

by Seedorama Staff November 9, 2010

Lindsay Lohan is broke. She’s also in need of some serious rehab. What’s a girl to do? Go vegan, of course. If she sticks with it during the duration of her three-month stint at California’s Betty Ford Clinic, PETA will cover the bulk of her expenses and throw $10,000 her way. Should she stick with [...]

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Awesome Igloo Made Of Recycled Refrigerators

by Seedorama Staff November 9, 2010

Berlin-based artist Ralf Schmerberg has constructed an awe-inspiring igloo made almost entirely of old refrigerators in the center of Hamburg, Germany. The 11 meter-wide igloo is made from 322 old refrigerators attached to a metal frame and placed in the middle of Gänsemarkt. What appears as a Dada-esque construction filled with absurd little vignettes is actually [...]

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Oregon Assisting Iraqi Universities in Green Building Programs

by Seedorama Staff November 5, 2010

A new plan by Oregon State University will facilitate the sharing of green engineering expertise with Iraqi universities. Iraqi professors will study at OSU’s sustainable engineering program in Corvallis, and Oregon professors and students will teach engineering, forestry, and agricultural science at several Iraqi universities. The Oregonian reports: “The nation of Iraq can begin to train [...]

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Electric Cars In Trouble For Next Decade

by Seedorama Staff November 5, 2010

J.D. Power & Associates, the auto market research firm anticipates that hybrid-electric and battery-electric vehicles will capture only a mere 7 percent of new car sales around the planet by 2020. That’s not that much higher than it is this year — 2 percent — and Nissan’s Leaf and Chevy’s Volt are just going on [...]

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Purple Wind Turbines Will Keep Wildlife At Bay

by Seedorama Staff November 4, 2010

While many environmentally conscious people fully support the building of wind turbines, many have their doubts about the effects of such intrusive structures on the habitats of local wildlife. The answer to such a conundrum may be as simple as a coat of paint. Researchers at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom announced that by painting turbines purple [...]

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Flame Retardants Will Both Save Your Live And Kill You

by Seedorama Staff November 3, 2010

Flame retardant will supposedly save your life in a fire. Not so, says a group of international scientists: some flame retardants are actually deadly The San Antonio Statement on Brominated and Chlorinated Flame Retardants, signed by 145 scientists from 22 countries, says that brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and chlorinated flame retardants (CFRs) need to be [...]

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The Greenest Shirt Ever

by Seedorama Staff November 3, 2010

Why hug a tree when you can wear one? If you’re looking for the most organic shirt possible look no further than David Rittinger, an artist and designer who lives in Brooklyn, has actually turned that thought into reality with his Zero Footprint Shirt: Leaf Series. The shirts aren’t actually anything special. Made from leaves [...]

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Robot Twitter Account Argues With Climate Change Deniers

by Seedorama Staff November 2, 2010

Nigel Leck got tired of arguing with people skeptical about global warming science. Noticing that most of them used the same debunked arguments over and over again, he decided to make a Twitter chatbot to answer them automatically. The bot is named @AI_AGW (the photo is of HAL 9000′s camera-eye), and every 5 minutes it searches the [...]

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