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Green Bricks

I read an interesting article on Springwise today about a company that has found a way to make a stronger, lighter, and more eco-friendly brick. EcoFaeBrick was trying to solve a waste issue in Indonesian farmland, and they concieved the idea of creating a brick out of cow dung. Interestingly enough, the dung bricks have [...]

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Synthetic Sharkskin

I am not usually a fan of campus publications, but I happened across a copy of The Planet, WWU’s eco-friendly printed environmental quarterly magazine, ironically in a wastebin in my office at the Viking Union. I read a ton of electronics, video game, and marketing news sites and blogs, but since starting this class I [...]

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Open Source Eco Car

It seems that car concepts come and go all of the time; magazines like Road and Track, Car and Driver, and others thrive on these prototype vehicles at trade shows, yet they never seem to see commercial production. I stumbled across a rather interesting vehicle concept with an interesting twist: the “c,mm,n” (pronounced “common”), a [...]

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