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Think You Know What A ‘Utility’ Bike Should Be? Vote For Your Favorite

Photo: Fuseproject and Sycip’s Local utility trike. What is the ‘ultimate utility bike’? The organizers of Oregon Manifest Construction Design Challenge 2011 Oregon Manifest 2011 aimed to find out. Setting that theme attracted a big batch of entries – 31 … Continue reading

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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Advertise here with BSAOne of the biggest advantages of using a content management system is that it allows developers to empower site owners with unprecedented control of their website. Giving website owners the ability to create, edit and manage their … Continue reading

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Buildup To Greenbuild: Check Your Tech Before You Come

Considering that most of Alexander Graham Bell’s work in inventing the telephone was done at his home in Brantford, Ontario, and that the Blackberry industry is a few kilometers up the road in Waterloo, it is surprising how far we … Continue reading

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Sony Introduces First 4K Home Theater Projector

This upcoming high-end front projector will provide home entertainment enthusiasts with more than four times the resolution of HDTV. Via: http://news.discovery.com

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Facebook Reveals Who DeFriended You

Want to find out who defriended you on Facebook? Yep. There’s an app for that. Via: http://news.discovery.com

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How Biomimicry Drives Sustainability: From Fish-Inspired Wind Turbines to the Future of 3-D Printing

All photos from AskNature , unless otherwise noted. Interview with Janine Benyus, President of the Biomimicry Institute Biomimicry has already influenced our lives in more ways than you’d likely begin to imagine: Anti-virus software? Airport scanners? That’s biomimicry. If you’re … Continue reading

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Gladiator’s Bike

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Tesco chief Richard Brasher warns, ‘squeezed middle is now 80% of us’

Richard Brasher , UK chief executive, suggested millions are struggling to put food on the table amid the biggest pressure on the cost of living for at least 60 years. Via: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

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Rotating Chickens, Rabbits and Rye in the Garden

Image credit: MushroomPatch The other day I posted video of one innovative Aussie gardener who had created a clever chicken tunnel system to fertilize his garden. It got me thinking about other ways that backyard gardeners might integrate domesticated animals … Continue reading

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Robo Bugs!

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