Andrew Price
Steve Jobs has an Oprah-like status with lots of gadget fetishists. Today he announced the MacBook Air. It's three quarters of an inch thick, incredibly sleek and costs around $1,800. The internet is abuzz.
Greenpeace has been worried about toxic chemicals in Apple products before. It looks like Apple regards this as a real problem. Or at least a PR problem. Their page for the new product has an "Environmental Status Report".
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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What Country Has the Best Higher Education System?
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Juilliard Brings Online Music Education to the Masses
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Sleep Better: 4 Ways to Manipulate Your Melatonin Levels #30DaysofGOOD
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A Place in the Sun: 5 DIY Projects for Summer Lounging
Writer Malcolm Gladwell sits down with environmentalist Amy Norquist to discuss one of the most unsung and low-tech green solutions out there:...
If you believe the future of energy is offshore drilling, think again. It took us more than 20 years to accumulate our first 10,000 megawatts...
The Wall Street Journal's editorial page features an essay by MIT scientist Richard Lindzen expressing skepticism about recent science surrounding...
This is a video of Mark Ecko tagging Air Force One. We are pretty sure it's fake, because you clearly cannot just sneak up to Air Force One on the...
Mathieu Lehanneur's Bel Air is a new type of air purifier than uses plants as living filters for your home. According to The Aesthetic Poet, the...
Running all your appliances, and heating and cooling your home, consumes a whole lot of natural resources and produces plenty of CO2. We've...
Fox News leans conservative. Everyone can agree on that, no? The White House leans conservative, too. That much is also undisputable. So, the...
Graphic artist Aaron Koblin used FAA data from 24 hours of air travel to create these diaphanous, pastel images. They're much cooler than some...
The saying goes, "Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home." But a new program encourages ladybugs to fly away home - into you backyard. Any gardening ...
For the second time in a month, terrible air pollution in Tehran has forced officials to close government offices and schools.
In it's first intervention since "Black Hawk Down," the U.S. launched air strikes inside Somalia at Al Qaeda members suspected of masterminding...
This video (after the jump) depicts a head-on collision between a 1959 Chevy Bel Air and a 2009 Chevy Malibu. Before watching, I guessed that the...
Citizen Architect, a documentary about the late architect Samuel Mockbee, will air tonight on your local PBS station. Mockbee (better known as...
A new conservative-driven campaign is trying to eliminate federal funding for NPR and PBS. Here's how you can keep public media alive in America.
The American Lung Association's new State of the Air report finds terrible air in cities all over the country. But it isn't all bad news.
Over at the community blog, Craig just linked to a fascinating article on security measures employed in Israeli airports. The takeaway is that in...
See a short promo for the new BBC special on data and visualization, hosted by the energetic Swede Hans Rosling.
The Airdrop is a low-tech fix to a serious problem: growing food during a drought.
Illegal dumping of E-waste in London steps into the spotlight in an upcoming episode of the BBC show Inside Out. Treehugger reports: BBC's Inside...
Air conditioning accounts for 14 percent of America's home electricity use, and most of that electricity comes from coal. Can we keep our home...
