These amazing coconut shell bowls are from Bambu, a company that makes contemporary products using eco-friendly and renewable materials. [via]

Ed Stafford, a former British Army captain has just become the first man to walk the length of the Amazon river in South America from the source to the sea. He started on 2nd April 2008 and finished on 9th August 2010, after 859 days of walking. What an amazing feat. Congratulations!

Ed started the expedition [...]

Jelloware are disposable cups made entirely out of agar agar (a gelatinous substance derived from red algae) and cast in different flavors, such as lemon-basil, ginger-mint, or rosemary-beet, each specifically designed to compliment a corresponding drink, thus making it edible cups.

Jelloware is bio-degradable, so it can be thrown on to grass. Since it is made [...]

Check out the video of the Japanese unmanned Hayabusa spacecraft’s fiery plunge into Earth’s atmosphere. This was captured by the NASA astronomers.

Bambu uses eco-friendly and renewable materials to create contemporary products for homes and kitchens. Recently they introduced Bamboo Pebbles.
These award winning pebbles are handmade from the excess bamboo material left over from the company’s cutting boards and solid-ware pieces. The bamboo pebbles have the look of smooth, well-worn river rocks and make for beautiful, [...]

Scientists at the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created an inkjet-style printing technology that can successfully print solar cells on paper.
The paper solar cells are one of many avenues being pursued around nano-scale materials. Layers of these materials could essentially be sprayed using different manufacturing techniques to make [...]

Design inspiration for the Green Marker is grass. Really a great idea for page markers. Simple and awesome!. Available for Japanese Yen ¥735 from Yuruliku.com

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Green , a young firm developing renewable energy prototypes, has unveiled its first product, the xBEE Alpha, touting blades that flap like insect wings.
With a 19-foot wingspan, the two-blade model is designed to shatter assumptions that windmill-style turbines are the best for energy generation. Current turbine architectures usually convert about 30 percent of the wind [...]

While the prevailing thinking is that art often imitates life, for Brazilian filmmaker and musician Jarbas Agnelli that statement also makes sense in reverse. After seeing a newspaper photograph depicting birds perched on power lines, Agnelli noticed a distinct resemblance to notes on stanza. Curious to know what type of underlying melody existed within the [...]