Green roofs reduce heating and cooling loads on a building, reduce stormwater run off, filter pollutants and heavy metals out of rainwater, and tags green roofs living roofs green living sustainable architecture sustainabilityfilter pollutants and CO2 out of the air. And they can be beautiful too! Check out these pictures of mega-green roofs throughout the world. picked by hypermiler 2 years ago |
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Actor Ed Begley, perhaps the greenest man in Tinsel Town, rides his electric car to the Academy Awards and powers his home with the sun and his stationary bike. He offers some tips on living green. picked by suebe 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Green tea may help slow the advance of prostate cancer, claim researchers. 0 comments edit related share scienceMen with the disease who consumed the active ingredients found in green tea had lower levels of markers that predict its progress, a US study has found. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago |
Green is a term that encompasses an entire movement, one aimed at reducing and reversing the negative affects we have on the environment. Sites like TreeHugger and Aghen offer thousands of tips and tricks that we all can apply. Going green has many other beneficial side effects some that get overlooked quite a bit are the financial benefits. picked by iamamaniac 5 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Here we present five of the largest green tech projects that have broken ground or plan to in 2009. Each one of them is slated to be as big as a large coal plant and among the largest green tech projects in the world. picked by iamamaniac 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Green Bay lost starting running back Ahman Green on Sunday when he signed a 4-year $23 million contract with the Houston Texans. picked by Wingnut 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Chinese scientists have successfully bred partially green fluorescent pig. picked by teaya21 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
Despite tough economic conditions, large office complexes continue to be built in major cities throughout the world. ‘Green’ campaigners argue that such developments are inherently bad for the environment, and skeptics point out that by making sustainability central to their new office designs, many companies are simply attempting to offset their environmentally degrading activities el... read full post picked by iamamaniac 7 months ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
Englishman Arthur S Mole and his American colleague John D Thomas took these incredible pictures of thousands of soldiers forming icons of American history. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A native of China and one of the oldest medicinal herbs, camellia sinensis is a tall evergreen shrub that blooms with white followers that resemble dogwood roses. This is the shrub that started the legend of tea in 2737 B.C. when the fresh leaves fell into the boiling water of Chinese Emperor Shen Nung, the father of Chinese medicine. Today, there are more than three thousand species of the shrub ... read full post picked by TeaAvenue 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Curtin University of Technology researchers have found that long-term consumption of green tea can dramatically reduce the risk of ischemic stroke. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
An eerie green cloud lurking around a nearby galaxy has puzzled scientists since it was discovered last year. New observations reveal that the cloud's ghoulish appearance may have to do with radiation streaming from a black hole inside the galaxy. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
Myra Nicholson (December 14, 1894 – September 20, 2007) was the oldest living Australian and the eleventh oldest validated person in the world following the September 15, 2007 death of French doyenne Marie-Simone Capony. picked by punthe 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
The stunning metallic green sheen of the "jewelled beetle" is produced by microscopic cells in its exoskeleton. These cells, they said, were almost identical to hi-tech liquid crystals. picked by kakana 4 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Four tallest women in the world, pictures, videos and much more about them. picked by icemann 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share weird |
Ontario's Liberal government hopes its Green Energy Act to be introduced Monday will create 50,000 new jobs and transform the province's struggling economy, but environmentalists warn the plan relies too heavily on nuclear power. picked by amabaie 9 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built - they're grown. The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. This tree produces a series of secondary roots from higher up its trunk and can comfortably perch atop huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in the middle of the rivers themselves. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Natural News is reporting that the new swine flu vaccine due out this October, will be made from the kidneys of diseased African Green Monkeys. 2 comments edit related share plime.comThe process is a bit disgusting. Who has the patent is disturbing. picked by Bingo 4 months ago |
No people, no animals, no movement. Spanish artist José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960) cleared every living creatures from some of the most famous paintings . picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share arts |
LIVING standards in Britain are set to rise above those in America for the first time since the 19th century, according to a report by the respected Oxford Economics consultancy. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share world |
A living organism created in a lab for the sake of art. Known as Victimless Leather, this project was grown onto a polymer matrix, coated with immortalized living cells, and shaped into a stitch-less form to create a coat like shape. The artwork - which was a tiny, living 'leather' jacket made out of mouse stem cells - had started to grow out of control. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 8 comments edit related share science |