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    Solar Plane

    If we trust Bertrand Piccard's Solar Impulse, soon we'll be flying around the world in airplanes powered by the Sun.

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    Robo Fish

    Massive oil spills like the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster earlier this year are fortunately rare. Unfortunately, smaller scale ocean pollution isn't, and collectively add up to cause enough damage to alter ecosystems and affect fish stocks. A key to...

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    Mushroom Plastics

    When we talk about mushrooms, we typically muse on any combination of three sub-strains: Recreational foraging, adventures in a psychedelic Legoland, and underrated pizza toppings. But not Eben Bayer. As the toe-shoe wearing cofounder and CEO of...

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    The Living House

    Imagine a future where the cities we live in are built in accordance with nature, where buildings are designed to incorporate features from ecological systems without compromising technological innovation or the quality of the environment. If it sounds...

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    Weather Lasers

    World water use is rising faster than our world population. The tiny island nation of Tuvalu has been crippled by drought and may be just the first island nation to run dry. Texas has been hit by massive dust storms thanks to that state's record...

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    Sailing Drone

    After visiting the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in June of 2010, a young engineer decided to develop an open source oil spill cleaning robot, Protei.

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