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Every one loves their favorite pieces of tech and their great little gadgets, but a change is in the wind: the new focus is not just on clever and more powerful devices but also on how to make a gadget be greener, a new technology waste less and produce more. Are your gadgets going green?

Verdant Vending: Exceptionally Eco-Friendly Outdoor Kiosk

Street vendors have a greener future to look forward to. The EcoKiosk was designed to make their stalls cleaner, greener and more appealing all-around.

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Vertical Parking Lots: Brilliant Urban Bike Hanger System

Sick of hunting for a space to park your bike? This brilliant concept utilizes unused vertical urban areas (and some people power) to create plenty of parking.

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Get Tanked: Fabulous Faux Swimming Pool Illusions

How weird would it be to gaze deep into a cool, inviting swimming pool and see an entire family walking around on the bottom, smiling and waving at you?

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Power Juicing: 2 Ads Using Oranges to Light the Way

Both of these ads use the power of fruit batteries to remind us of the natural fuel that fruits (and other whole foods) provide our bodies.

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Low Tech to High Concept: 3 Ideas for Water in Africa

These three ideas, from a simple sand filter to water vapor towers to alter the climate, aim to help solve Africa's water crisis.

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12 Green Megastructures for an Eco-Fantastic Future


Futuristic or folly? Massive megastructures for healthy high-density housing that capture or desalinate water, produce renewable energy and create micro-climates!

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Go With the Flow: Eco-Friendly Wind-Powered Street Lights

This design for street lights in remote locations would use the power of the wind, along with the strength of bamboo, to light the way on dark beaches.

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Marine Muse: 12 More Sea-Inspired Designs & Inventions

These 12 designs and inventions take inspiration from the sea and the marine life it contains, from a robot squid to an earthquake-resistant man-made island.

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Single Plywood Piece is the Extreme in Flat-Pack Furniture

Flat-pack furniture is eco-friendlier than pre-assembled pieces, but one designer takes that idea even further with a single piece of transforming plywood.

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Nature + Technology Combine to Relax Stressed Urbanites

Feeling stressed and disconnected from the natural world? This website lets you combine your favorite nature sounds for a unique relaxation experience.

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World's Smallest Solar Theater Shines Light on Environment

This tiny caravan is half a century old, but it is helping to spread a thoroughly modern message about alternative energy and environmental stewardship.

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Eco-Bridge Over Troubled Times: Green Design Drives Concept

Earth-friendly design and clean energy drive this concept for an innovative bridge in Italy which may be able to provide clean power for up to 15,000 homes.

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Sol Mates: Bike Path Makes Clean Energy From Flat Surfaces

Streets and bike paths criss-cross the world, but what if they could do double duty? By putting solar cells into our roads, we could create cheap clean energy.

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Powerful Research: The 8 Best + Worst Electric Power Sources

An illustrated rundown of the 8 best-to-worst energy sources as researched by Stanford University professor Mark Z. Jacobson.

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Go Green by Coworking: 10 Cafe-Plus-Office Hybrids

Sit down with your laptop, have a mocha, use the free wi-fi and spend as long as you like: at these coworking space/cafe hybrids, you're encouraged to work.

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