Awesome! Who knew you could use broken panels to harness solar power?

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I really, really love the idea of vertical farms. What’s not to love about growing food without wasting horizontal land space?

Architect Laurie Chetwood came up with this winning design for a bridge across London’s Thames river. From Inhabitat:

Recently Chetwood Architects unveiled a stunning proposal for a futuristic London Bridge that sprouts a towering vertical farm [...]

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Watch the video above for Obama talking about the energy crisis.
I believe Obama really does want to change our dependance on oil. But is he making it happen? That, I haven’t come to much conclusions about. In the beginning I was excited about him taking the presidency. I was convinced he’d at least do more [...]

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Have you heard about the recent $25 BILLION President Bush has granted as a loan package to troubled US automakers? As a taxpayer this is simply outrageous to me. Let’s add some MORE debt to our already huge deficit!
Let’s see what caused this catastrophe, shall we?
Bush is allergic to renewable energy.
During his term, Bush has [...]

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What is a pizza farm, you ask? It’s a small chunk of land (about half an acre) that is divided in 8 in a circle, similar to a pizza. It grows ALL the ingredients needed to make… you guessed it, a pizza.
The eight sections include:
• Goats: ”You are petting living cheese,” Gregory said.
• Pigs: Can [...]

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