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Cykelmageren's Gorgeous Bicycle Hardware Comes With Cryptic Danish Messages

Hand-fashioned cycling bits don't reveal themselves willingly.READ»

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MIT Crowdsources the Next Climate Agreement

Last year's Copenhagen climate conference failed to produce any sort of useful legislation, so they're tapping the crowd. So far? Four responses. READ»

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The Bicycle Brake That Lets You Fly by Wire

Leave it to the Danes to make 150 years of bicycle design look foolishly overwrought. READ»

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‘Creationism’ Comes to WEF? Innovation Dominates the Discussion in Tianjin

At last week’s “Summer Davos,” the annual World Economic Forum meeting in China, talk about innovation was everywhere. Not surprisingly, the sense of the meeting was that waiting for governments to set consistent rules and incentives for a low-carbon economy is a fool’s game. READ»

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Cities for People: A Q&A With Architect Jan Gehl

While visiting New York this week for the American publication of his latest book "Cities for People"--a kind of manual for making walkable cities--Jan Gehl invited me to sit with him in Bryant Park to observe the sidewalk ballet and discuss what he calls “the needs of the urban habitat of homo sapiens.”READ»

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Comedian Eugene Mirman Talks About How His Web Videos Have Made Him Sort of Famous

Eugene Mirman started creating original Web content back when most of us were still using dial-up. As the online world has grown, so has the comedian's career. Between stand-up performances, film, and TV gigs (he plays the bad guy ...READ»

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Exciting Commercial Space Units to Watch: SpaceX and Copenhagen Suborbital

As SpaceX completes safety tests on its potential human space capsule, and a European outfit preps its innovative rocket for a test launch, it's obvious that some of the most exciting space news at the moment is coming from folks other than NASA.READ»

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Greenland's Bedrock Could Predict Our Climate Future

There is no shortage of prognostications about what climate change will do to our planet. In reality, there are few ways to tell for sure; human beings have never been around for this kind of world-shifting event before. But an ...READ»

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Tesla Unveils Roadster 2.5

Order now, and Tesla will throw in a few shares of freshly inflated stock!READ»

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A Gym on Steroids, Designed by MVRDV and ADEPT

It's a fitness center but also a theater, a health spa, an exhibition space, a study hall, a place to eat, and a Zen center.READ»

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Innovative Mayor Sam Adams Builds a Cleaner Portland

In honor of our Fast Cities Breakfast coming up on June 22, we spoke with Portland mayor Sam Adams, who, in his first State of City address last February, vowed to make Portland "the most sustainable city in the world." And this ...READ»

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Urban Planning Lessons From Cairo (Yes, Cairo)

One of the most polluted cities in the world hatches a plan to improve the streets for pedestrians.READ»

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Crib Sheet: Christiana Figueres, Climate Change Chief of the U.N., Not Trashy Romance Novelist

She has described her new job as "thankless," but all hail Christiana Figueres, the U.N.'s new climate chief. The 53-year-old Costa Rican is a surprise appointment, as everyone was expecting Ban Ki-Moon to offer Marthinus Van ...READ»

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How Green Is The U.K.’s New Government?

Britain's got a new prime minister, Conservative David Cameron; a new deputy prime minister, Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg; and an odd new governing coalition kludged together with both of their parties. The new government has ...READ»

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Getting Past Know

How outside the jar thinking can drive sustainability action. READ»

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High Stakes: Winning the Ultimate Bet

In the second post of their seven-part series, John Elkington and Charmian Love look at how change has come to the business world, from the sustainability movement and technological innovations, and what it means for the C-Suite.READ»

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"Star Wars Uncut:" 472 Groups of Amateur Auteurs Reenact a Feature Length Classic

The Force is strong with this one. Over 472 groups of people have re-enacted 15-second clips of Star Wars, which have been edited back together into a full-length film.READ»

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Can a Modern Mosque in Copenhagen Settle the Disputes Between Danes and Muslims?

Given the local tensions with Muslim immigrants, the Bjarke Ingels Group mosque is either ingenious or outrageous.READ»

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Conscious Design, Nav'i sytle

James Cameron’s new movie, Avatar, is an epic of story-telling and technology. And, it is a must-see for marketers and branders.READ»

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Obama's Third (at least) Sellout on Energy

The latest sellout of progressives by the Obama administration is once again on the energy front. The plan announced in his speech today opens huge areas on the east coast and Alaska (click here for a map). Even Nancy ...READ»

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Report: Clean Tech Investments to Climb Dramatically

Good news on the clean tech front: a report from Datamonitor claims that global investments in the sector will climb this year by an impressive 35% in the face of flailing climate change legislation. According to the report, ...READ»

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Michelle DesRochers

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Addison Berry, Documentation Team Lead for Drupal

Since joining the Drupal community in 2006, the open-source advocate has become a prominent presence: traveling the world to speak at events (from local high schools to international conferences); leading a group of codehead volunteers in logging all things Drupal; and, in 2009, snagging a Knight Foundation grant to improve Drupal documentation.READ»

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Jean Nouvel Gets the Nod for 2010 Serpentine Pavilion

Jean Nouvel, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2008, is to design this year's Serpentine Pavilion in London. For the past decade, the gallery, situated in Hyde Park, has been home to some of the most innovative pop-up structures ...READ»