Green news and more V8.13

Bringing you, your weekly positive Green related articles. Lot of rain this week, helped grow tulips and daffodils. Think I weeded out any April Fools articles.

Kniterate is a digital knitting machine that lets you 'print' your own clothes | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Colombian town turns down $35B gold mine - prefers a clean environment | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Warehouse next to NYC's High Line gets an office makeover | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Tiny Scottish island powers itself with community-owned off-grid energy system | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Advertising That’s More Than ‘Hot Air’ [Updated] | Toyota USA Newsroom

Toyota Research Institute Brings Artificial Intelligence to the Hunt for New Materials | Toyota USA Newsroom

Toyota and NTT Agree to Collaborate on ICT Platform R&D for Connected Cars | Toyota USA Newsroom

How You Can Start Being Ecofriendly Today - Ecofriend

Stop plastic microfiber pollution with this ingenious laundry bag : TreeHugger

Stockholm’s metro stations are a glorious riot of art and color : TreeHugger

Man creates mountains of compost from Dublin's waste—plus a storyteller's perspective on immigration : TreeHugger

How to make all-natural Easter egg dyes : TreeHugger

 

Part 2

Nature-inspired gallery celebrates Taiwan’s aboriginal cultures with cargotecture | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

5 surprisingly easy gardening projects for Spring | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Australia announces massive $1B solar farm with the world's largest battery | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Electra Meccanica reveals the all-electric 250-mile-range Tofino roadster | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Home builder makes the Tesla Powerwall 2 standard in every new home | Electrek

Tesla’s new patent for its Powerpack explains how its energy storage stations can go up to 1 GWh | Electrek

Electrek green energy brief: 2,000GW global renewable capacity, 754MW solar plant in Mexico, more | Electrek

50 MW of new Tesla Powerpack 2 projects to be deployed for Southern California Edison | Electrek

Photo: Clearwing butterflies meet on a leaf : TreeHugger

15 'disposable' items that you can reuse : TreeHugger

Algorithmically designed garden pavilion is inspired by dragonfly wings : TreeHugger

Toyota will advertise its hydrogen fuel cell sedan with smog-reducing billboards : TreeHugger

 

Part 3

Iceland’s geothermal Blue Lagoon is getting an amazing new hotel this year | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Blue Origin unveils interior images of capsule to transport tourists to outer space | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

London and Paris mayors announce new emissions monitoring system for vehicles | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

75 American mayors affirm climate goals even after Trump executive order | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Toyota is using AI to create the next generation battery for electric vehicles | Electrek

Electrek green energy brief: Battery plus solar pricing from NREL, South Australia with largest battery plus solar, more | Electrek

Daimler to make 1,500 all-electric Mercedes-Benz vans for Germany’s largest independent logistic firm | Electrek

Electrek green energy brief: Largest artifical sun, hundreds of clean energy laws, more | Electrek

An outdoor cooking group is a great way to spend time in nature : TreeHugger

Ivory lust wanes in China, elephants rejoice : TreeHugger

5 times frozen food is the better option : TreeHugger

Tires could be made from eggshells and tomato skins : TreeHugger

 

Part 4

Former concrete factory begins anew as an alternative high school with no curriculum | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Circular school hides a kaleidoscope of color and geometry | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

The Stickbulb is beautiful modular LED light that is customizable into any configuration | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

2,000-year-old pre-Aztec ancient palace complex found in Mexico | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Electrek green energy brief: Walking on solar panels, big oil loves big offshore wind, more | Electrek

California solar + wind record high at 49.2%, renewable electricity peaks above 56% | Electrek

Apple commits to Obama’s Clean Power Plan renewable energy efforts despite Trump regulation rollback | 9to5Mac

Spring blossoms - The Boston Globe

This low-tech gravity-fed watering system is based on an ancient irrigation technique : TreeHugger

New 3D map offers clues about anomalies in Earth's magnetic field (Video) : TreeHugger

Corn monitoring robots help scientists study the effects of climate change on food crops : TreeHugger

Improve your cooking by using all 5 senses : TreeHugger

 

Part 5

Brooklyn's Red Hook Houses are getting a resilient makeover | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

6 groundbreaking examples of tech innovations inspired by biomimicry | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

California defies Trump with tough emissions rules | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

The Stickbulb is beautiful modular LED light that is customizable into any configuration | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

American Farmers Want a Piece of the Big Data Revolution - Seeker

Elon Musk Hails SpaceX Launch of Recycled Rocket as a Revolution in Spaceflight - Seeker

New Dinosaur ‘Horner’s Frightful Lizard’ Changes the Face of Tyrannosaurs - Seeker

Learn the Science of Evaporative Cooling and How Shirt Uses It to Keep You Cool - Seeker

Photo: The elegant grace of a great egret : TreeHugger

Solar freakin' briefcase: Renogy Phoenix is an all-in-one solar charger & battery (Review) : TreeHugger

Four ways responsible forestry supports wood construction : TreeHugger

These precious 'traveling landscapes' live in vintage suitcases : TreeHugger

 

Part 6

Maryland to be third US state to ban fracking after Senate approves bill | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Clean energy jobs outnumber fossil fuel jobs in most US states | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Green news and more V8.13 | PriusChat

Ai Weiwei builds fences around New York City | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Combining the Science of Wool with The Engineering of Synthetics - Seeker

Life Outside Our Solar System Might Exist on Exomoons - Seeker

‘Unparalleled' Number of Dinosaur Tracks Found in Australia - Seeker

Charge your gadgets when you’re off the grid with 1 tablespoon of water

All you need is one : TreeHugger

10 of Europe's most remarkable trees : TreeHugger

Amazon tribe has the healthiest hearts ever studied : TreeHugger

7 ways to use cauliflower as a luscious secret ingredient : TreeHugger

 

Part 7

These incredible lights look exactly like soap bubbles  | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Students collaborate with starchitect Daniel Libeskind to design university building | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

BIG reveals new yin yang-shaped Panda House for Copenhagen Zoo | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Renovated Beijing factory gets new life with an elegantly-integrated Zen garden | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

This Tyrannosaur Used a 'Sixth Sense' to Hunt Its Prey

Saturn's Weirdest Moon Is Full of Electric Sand

We Might Finally Have a Good Way to Predict Dangerous Space Weather

Largest-Ever Dinosaur Footprint Found in Australia's Jurassic Park

The Nifty Cook My Meat Tool Helps You Cook the Perfect Steak With Science

How to Prepare Vegetables That You'd Actually Want to Eat

Why stronger fuel efficiency standards are so important : TreeHugger

5 packaging materials you didn’t know are difficult to recycle : TreeHugger

 

Part 8

World's largest dinosaur footprint found in Australia's "Jurassic Park" | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Russian ice skating rink doubles as a solar-powered outdoor cinema and geothermal spa | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Colorado appeals court sides with teenagers fighting oil and gas industry | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Parkorman forest park in Turkey lets you trampoline through the treetops | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Tech's biggest players tackle climate change despite rollbacks

NASA probe Juno captures Jupiter's poles in glorious detail

Toyota is using AI to hunt for new battery materials

Watch astronaut Peggy Whitson's historic spacewalk

Search for elusive Planet 9 gets a crowdsourcing boost - CNET

Tokyo will test Toyota's new hybrid boat during 2020 Olympics - Roadshow

Doodle 4 Google winner sees a future of peace and diversity - CNET

Relive the greatest April Fools' web pranks of all time - CNET

 

Part 9

Artist recycles leaf waste into biodegradable Beleaf chair | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Ukraine's Leafy Green 'Tunnel of Love' is a Passageway for Trains and Lovers | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

One of Jupiter's asteroid 'moons' is orbiting backwards

SpaceX prepares to reuse the first rocket it landed on a barge

Scientists turn spinach into a farm for human heart cells

Air pollution makes surprisingly good art supplies

This time-lapse cell division film is not CGI

NASA picks 10 smallsat missions to explore the Solar System

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket wins NAA Collier award - CNET

The world's biggest dino prints are probably bigger than you - CNET