Green news and more V7.42

Bringing you, your weekly positive Green related articles. Very weird weather for October. Although I don't mind the warmth, it is a bit odd.

Ultra-light Sunda camping shelter is a hammock and tent packed in one | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Foldable Wide Path Camper is a whole different kind of bike trailer | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Sound Shirt: smart clothing lets deaf people feel music | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Make these easy zucchini fries for a tasty snack this weekend | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

A Solid Foundation: Toyota Family Teacher of the Year Award Winner, Runner-up Arm Parents With the Tools to Improve Children’s Academic Outcomes | Corporate

A Campus Grows in Plano: CEO Jim Lentz Gives Sneak Peek at the New Toyota | Corporate

2016 Toyota Texas HQ - A Campus Grows in Plano (Infographic) | Corporate

Toyota One of Best Global Brands According to Interbrand | Corporate

Photo: The subtle sweet beauty of brown pelicans : TreeHugger

7 reasons to love a menstrual cup : TreeHugger

6 vegetables that are healthier cooked than raw : TreeHugger

Believe it or not, the U.S. Metric Association is 100 years old this year, and it's National Metric Week in America. : TreeHugger

 

Part 2

The Cloud: Glowing LED sphere hovers over a social housing estate in Copenhagen | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Revolutionary solar company Rayton Solar gets a boost from Bill Nye | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Green-roofed Neben development preserves public space in the heart of Gothenburg | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

MIT's fusion reactor sets world record on last day of running | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Toyota Announces Return of Dream Car Art Contest | Corporate

Tesla announces new partnership with Panasonic to manufacture solar panels at SolarCity’s Buffalo ‘Gigafactory’ | Electrek

Electricity disrupted: US-based solar + storage at $0.028/kWh w/ world’s largest (again) proposed solar power plant | Electrek

Dubai’s port funds Hyperloop One with $50 million to make hyperloop a reality [Updated] | Electrek

Do solar power and energy efficiency go together like lox and cream cheese? : TreeHugger

10 wonderful adventure novels for children : TreeHugger

Bill Nye-backed solar company aims to cut the cost of solar by 60% : TreeHugger

9 common mistakes made when recycling : TreeHugger

 

Part 3

This Self-Healing House uses plants, moss, and birds to create a living facade | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

These adorable Little Goodall critter coats got your back this Halloween | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Brain implants allow paralyzed man to feel his fingertips again through a robotic arm | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Apple's new Regent Street store is filled with daylight and living trees | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Tesla’s former VP of Manufacturing is going to build all-electric buses at Proterra | Electrek

Electric vehicles are cheaper to fuel in all 50 states, savings between $300 to $1,300 per year | Electrek

Mysterious Cavities Great Pyramids Giza

Brain Implant Touch Nathan Copeland

How disgust could lead to a cleaner, healthier world : TreeHugger

Should self-driving cars prioritize pedestrians' or drivers' safety? : TreeHugger

Magnificent time-lapse film shows tiny movements of corals up close (Video) : TreeHugger

The people who need good transit most have the least access to it : TreeHugger

 

Quick pause. I started this too late, and cant stay awake. Will finish this in a few hours.

 

Ok. On with the rest.

Part 4

SolarReserve announces the world’s largest solar plant will power one million US homes | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Impossible Foods cruelty-free burger added to more West Coast restaurant menus | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Floating Jellyfish Lodge treats polluted water, purifies air, and grows food through aquaponics | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

National laboratory scales up quantum-dot solar windows that can power entire buildings | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Skin Impression of Europe's Last Dinosaur Found

Our Universe Has 10-20 Times More Galaxies Than Thought

US Energy Infographics Chart Future

Chimp Moms Teach Offspring to Use Tools

One university's fight against invasive species : TreeHugger

What to look for when you're buying land for permaculture : TreeHugger

Photo: Blushing phantom butterfly is both flirty and demure : TreeHugger

Swedish EV startup Uniti aims to completely reinvent the electric city car : TreeHugger

 

Part 5

The Toyota Prius Prime is the most efficient electrified car you can buy in the US | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Duffy Shelter is an easy-to-assemble flat pack trailer that can be used as emergency shelter or for glamping | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

MIT's new carbon-free supercapacitor could revolutionize the way we store power | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

10 ingenious Halloween costumes made from recycled junk | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Prehistoric Voice Box Reveals Dinosaur-Era Sounds

Solar Impulse Plane Drone

Amazon will hire 120,000 temporary workers this holiday season - CNET

You need to know about these smart kitchen gadgets - CNET

Unprecedented 3D world map completed : TreeHugger

These basic black leggings are made from recycled water bottles : TreeHugger

Germany's Bundesrat calls for end of internal combustion engine powered cars by 2030 : TreeHugger

10 reasons to eat as much local food as you can : TreeHugger

 

Part 6

LEED Gold-seeking Santa Monica science facility uses architecture to teach students about sustainability | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Scotland's first kite-driven renewable energy power station will soar by 2025 | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Antarctica's Camp Whichaway is a luxury eco-friendly camp powered by wind and solar energy | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

10 things your newborn DOESN'T need | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Cold as ICE: German legislators look to ban gas, diesel cars by 2030 - Roadshow

Carbon Xprize chooses the 27 best solutions for CO2 emissions

President Obama calls for a plan to deal with extreme space weather

Six energy-harvesting gadgets powered by people

Mysterious 'ghost redwoods' may survive to help nearby trees : TreeHugger

Photo: The regal profile of a pileated woodpecker : TreeHugger

12 DIY decorations for a green Halloween : TreeHugger

Seagrass: The most important habitat nobody ever talks about? : TreeHugger

 

Back later with more

 

Time to finish up with the past week.

Part 7

How to cook a whole pumpkin (seeds, guts and all) | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Smart Taiga Tower is like having an 80 square foot garden right inside your home | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Artist turns vintage postcards into extraordinary layered landscapes | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

President Barack Obama says we'll be heading to Mars by the 2030s | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

New European Union law could require EV chargers in all new homes | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Smart trash can helps educate reluctant recyclers

Science creates a cast that lets you scratch those itches

Astronomers spot a tiny dwarf planet beyond Pluto

Royal Caribbean uses fuel cells to power cleaner cruise ships

The incredible otherwordly caterpillars of Ecuador : TreeHugger

Storm chaser’s film reveals the majestic fury of the southeastern sky : TreeHugger

Wind-powered device can produce 11 gallons per day of clean drinking water from the air : TreeHugger

 

Part 8

MIT Media Lab designs an indoor Synthetic Apiary to keep honeybees safe year-round | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Egypt's first solar-powered village rises from the desert in Bahariya Oasis | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Scientists just transmitted data across a national electricity grid for the first time | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

China's 'extinct' dolphin may have been sighted again in the Yangtze River | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) treatment developed by students

Best smart light bulbs, color

Google's graveyard: 8 products Google killed in 2016 | PCWorld

Nature documentary 'Planet Earth II' looks absolutely stunning

There may be 10 times more galaxies in the universe than we thought | ExtremeTech

New Project Blue space telescope to image exoplanets in Alpha Centauri | ExtremeTech

2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for nanomachines | ExtremeTech

NASA develops model to predict global dust storms on Mars | ExtremeTech

 

Part 9

A lush indoor jungle purifies air and mitigates congestion at Pudong Airport in Shanghai | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Gandiablasco's Wigwams are homey spaces that let you relax outdoors in style | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Ambulance station built from renewable materials has a nearly energy-neutral footprint | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

VELLO launches the world's first folding electric bike that can charge itself | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

This Electric Cart Lets Puny Humans Pull an 18-Wheeler's 20-Ton Trailer

Spectacular Timelapse Footage Makes Storms Look Like Floating Waterfalls

This Former Nuclear Bunker Is Now Used to Preserve All of America's Film Reels

Two Space Agencies Will Try to Make a Historic Landing on Mars Next Week

Germany votes to ban internal combustion engine cars by 2030 | ExtremeTech

Closest exoplanet Proxima b remains mysterious, in the absence of direct observation | ExtremeTech

Why You Should Help Others When You Need a Boost Yourself

Five Ways to Extend the Life of Five Major Household Appliances

 

Part 10

Brighton company aims to convert city's biodiesel buses to run on solar power | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

German government votes to ban new combustion engine cars by 2030 | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

US Army to start testing a fuel-cell-powered Chevy Colorado ZH2 | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

US Army to start testing a fuel-cell-powered Chevy Colorado ZH2 | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Green-roofed apartment block in Tehran uses recycled rainwater and reclaimed materials | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Paris allows anyone to plant an urban garden | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

3D-printed Playmobil hair helmet makes bike safety more fun for kids | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Australian desert farm grows 17,000 metric tons of vegetables with just seawater and sun | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building