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The Aerogenerator X is a Huge Next-Gen Wind Turbine With More Power, Less Weight

Back in 2010, we reported that British company Wind Power Limited was set to unveil a whole new type of wind turbine called The Aerogenerator . Now the company has released the next-generation version...

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Radio Royaal is a Gorgeous New Restuarant in an Old Philips Power Plant in...

Read the rest of Radio Royaal is a Gorgeous New Restuarant in an Old Philips Power Plant in the Netherlands Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “green furniture” , Architecture ,...

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How Green Lighting Can Save American Businesses Millions of Dollars

Installing green lighting may seem like a small and simple change, but it’s surprising how hefty the bottom line savings can be. Many companies across the globe have been switching to LEDs quietly and...

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Surreal Echappée Aquarium Lets Fish Escape the Tank

The Echappée aquarium by designer Sebastien Cordoleani resembles something out of a Salvador Dalí painting. Something that would easily fit in with a collection of melting clocks, the French artist’s...

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Philips to Upgrade 91,000 Buenos Aires Street Lights With LEDs

The city of Buenos Aires, Argentina is teaming up with Philips Lighting to retrofit 91,000 street lights with energy-saving LED bulbs . Philips will replace the city’s incandescent lighting with...

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Roosegaarde’s Crystal LED Lights Can be Rearranged like ‘LEGOs from Mars’

Read the rest of Roosegaarde’s Crystal LED Lights Can be Rearranged like ‘LEGOs from Mars’ Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Crystal LED installation , Daan Roosegaarde , Dutch Design...

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Philips’ Sexy Urban Beehive Concept Lets Apartment-Dwellers Harvest Honey

Philips’ just unveiled a new concept for an urban beehive that would allow anyone to become an amateur bee keeper – even those who live in apartments with no backyards. The pod-like hive attaches to a...

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Green Sense Farms and Philips Unveil Vertical LED-lit Urban Garden in...

One of the largest indoor commercial farms with LED lighting will be unveiled today at the AmeriPlex Industrial Park in Indianapolis. Philips has partnered with Green Sense Farms (GSF) , a...

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Philips Transforms Peru’s Biggest Bank into One of the World’s Largest...

Global lighting leader Philips recently unveiled BCP Affinity, a massive LED-studded interactive installation that transformed the facade of Peru’s largest and oldest bank into a public art piece....

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A Simple Change in Lighting Could Be the Secret to Beating the Monday Blues

Have a case of the Mondays? Philips  thinks they just might have the solution: the company issued a report today showing that the secret to beating the Monday blues could be as easy as adjusting your...

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Scania is testing Sweden’s first wirelessly charged hybrid city bus

A wirelessly charged electric city bus is about to hit the streets of Sweden. Scania is launching a sustainable public transit project in the streets of Södertälje, Sweden in June 2016 to see if the...

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VIDEO: Director Kathryn Bigelow takes on the illegal ivory trade in Last Days...

Click here to view the embedded video. WARNING: video contains scenes that may disturb some viewers (but, then again, that’s the point!) Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow has never been one to shy...

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Heartwarming Charity Christmas Tree is made from 5,000 pieces of firewood in...

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Madrid takes on largest street lighting upgrade in the world

The city government of Madrid plans to upgrade every single one of their streetlights to Philips ’ energy-efficient bulbs. Philips, the world’s leader in lighting, will finance the project at no...

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Philips uses LEDs to bolster urban farming

Leading LED light manufacturer  Philips  has partnered up with indoor farming company Green Sense Farms in an innovative project that could bring indoor farming to cities worldwide. Faced with the...

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A fourth of all fish sold at markets have man-made debris in them

We already know that some fish contain high levels of mercury, DDT, and PCBs, but now a new study shows they are also full of trash.  The study, published in Scientific Reports , found that almost 25...

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Philips launches new lighting system that iPhone users can control with...

Smartphones can do so much, we have to wonder how much longer we’ll still be calling them ‘phones’ at all. Now, you can add one more task to the long list of things that iPhone’s Siri can help you...

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Eindhoven’s annual Glow Festival set the city aglow with hundreds of LED...

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3 reasons the clean energy transition will be a bumpy ride

Bucking fossil fuels won’t be easy because of economics, among other reasons. Excerpt from: 3 reasons the clean energy transition will be a bumpy ride

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Can advertising be ethical?

Here’s the answer from a decade of highlights from Ferrero, Nike, Liberty Mutual, Philips and Procter & Gamble. See the rest here: Can advertising be ethical?

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