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Thursday, 13 April 2006
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A European space probe has successfully gone into orbit around Venus after a 400 million kilometre trip from Earth.
Venus is the poster-planet for the global warming argument; about the same size as Earth, not a significantly different distance from the sun, Venus long ago went into a complete global warming spinout. Scientists are hoping to find out why. The answers mahy save our planet.
[ABC News: Science and Technology]
1:14:11 AM 
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Cory Doctorow:
The winner of the Buckminster Fuller Institute's Cradle-to-Cradle competition is a photosynthetic, electricity-generating single-family home insulated with soy-foam and designed to be placed in communal blocks:
Not only does the building run a photosynthetic and phototropic skin made with spinach protein, but it also produces more energy than a single family's needs, allowing the excess to be distributed to neighbors. This radical shift, from centralized energy systems today, fosters community interdependence as neighbors benefit from the resources of others.
Man, how cool is this?
It makes my inner hippy sing with joy!
Link
(Thanks, Graffitirun!)
[Boing Boing]
12:59:31 AM
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