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'They'll Have To Get Their Hands Dirty Now'Today

That's what an Icelandic celebrity chef has remarked about Iceland's economy in melt-down mode - deicing like an Exxon-Mobilated glacier.

Eco-aware, earnest but pampered, they drift from organic café to bar, listening to the music of Björk and Sigur Rós, islanders who have made it big abroad. 'They will have to get their hands dirty now,' says

chef Siggi Hall, Iceland's answer to Gordon Ramsay, with an effusive vocabulary to match. Via::The Guardian, The party's over for Iceland, the island that tried to buy the world. Dirty hands in the USA, too, may soon ...

Colorado Tries to Prevent RoadKill With New TechnologyToday

Using Technology to Alert Drivers to Animals on the Road We recently covered the top five roadkill sites in America, as well as a dire IUCN report stating that "25% of all the world’s mammal species are at risk of extinction." What's the connection? Well, while most of the extinctions are occurring because of habitat loss and encroachment, as well as poach...

Nobel Prize In Physics For (Beautiful) Symmetry Breaking DiscoveriesToday

(Photo from MSNBC by Kenneth Libbrecht) Today, the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced for important discoveries in the field of quantum physics. Yoichiro Nambu at Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, US, shares the prize with Makoto Kobayashi at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan, and Toshihide Masukawa at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan. Together, their discoveries about "symmetry breaking" and quarks, lead to a deeper understanding of our universe. What is symmetry breaking? One useful example is the

Plug and Live System: 18 Boxes from Brazil to Argentina, from Waste to ArtToday

Argentinean architects Gustavo Dieguez and Lucas Gilardi took 18 wood boxes that were waste from the Brazilian automobile industry and transformed them into the Plug and Live System: a collection of modules to build transitory habitats and experiment with different ideas of housing. As the project moves on to team up with companies and NGOs to recover more waste and build cultural spaces, the original 18 boxes arrive in Brazil for the second exhibit that shows them turned into art, Moradias Transitorias. Read on to follow the story of the boxes and see more pictures....

Luisa Cevese Eco Carry-On BagsToday

Here is a good-looking carry-on bag that is environmental and stylish. It comes in two sizes and can swing over your shoulder for easy schlepping. It is made by Luisa Cevese, an Italian textile designer who has been creating beautiful bags out of recycled plastic since 1994. She started out working in research in a silk mill and became aware of the vast quantity of waste created in textile production. Cevese was inspired by this industrial by-product and founded Riedizioni, which uses plastic and industrial remnants such as selvedges, damaged yarns, cuts from garm...