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How Pavement Pollutes Cities (And What To Do About It)

It's not just what we put into the air of cities that makes the air hard to breathe, it's the cities themselves.READ»

City Senspod Makes Air Pollution Paranoia Easy

Sensaris's wearable City Senspod makes tracking air pollution as easy as checking the time. The wristwatch-like device uses GPS and Bluetooth technology to display real-time CO2 and ozone levels for your exact location. An "air ...READ»

Breathing Bud Shines a Light on Bad Air

It might not save you from swine flu, but the Breathing Bud device can at least warn you when air quality is shoddy. The concept device, designed by Xinxin Wang and Zhi Chai, contains a vent at its base that sucks in air for ...READ»

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When Politics Kill

When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed me to serve as the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency in 2003, my first challenge came not from the smoggy skies of Los Angeles or the pesticide-laden drainage ...READ»