Originally published on BLDGBLOG, written by Geoff Manaugh, reblogged by Cluster

Passing electricity through soil, and into the roots of plants, might stimulate the accelerated production of certain chemicals, New Scientist reports.
“The roots of garden pea plants were exposed to low-level electric current and subsequently produced 13 times more pisatin, an antifungal chemical, than plants that [...]

Originally published on Inhabitat, written by Jorge Chapa, reblogged by Cluster

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Installing solar panels on the roof of every new building in the world would go a long way towards [...]

Originally published on EcoGeek, written by Hank Green, reblogged by Cluster

Fairly new to the scene, and with dreams as big as God’s feet, Ausra says they can power the whole frikkin world. Of course, we’re going to have to give them a lot of money to do it.
The company’s tagline (mission, discription and dream all [...]

Orignially published on Inhabitat, written by Emily Pilloton, reblogged by Cluster

Our friends at Ecolect, the go-to sustainable design and materials community, have launched a monthly spotlight on sustainable design called Limelight - and the first feature is tough act to follow. Teresita Cochraine’s sustainable design group, SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology) has a compelling new [...]

Originally published by mute, written by Nuno Rodrigues, reblogged by Cluster

sizeAlasdair Duncan, Our New Mechanisms Releases New Human Potentials, 2007
In the recent show FUSION NOW!, is curator J.J.Charlesworth’s promotion of technologically – rather than socially – produced abundance as political as it claims to be, and were the artists on (modernist) message? Review by [...]