Yes, as the title says, there is a boat made out of plastic water bottles. This boat, called Plastiki, is made completely out of plastic bottles and recycled waste products. They plan to sail this boat starting in August 2009. When it is complete, Plastiki will be comprised of 12,500 2-liter plastic bottles that have [...]

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What happens when you want to save the trees, help reduce carbon emissions, and save a lot of lives? You’d probably end up inventing the Kyoto Box, a cheap but very useful solar-powered cardboard cooker. Solar cookers are not new inventions, we have seen them before, but the Kyoto Box is probably the cheapest and most useful [...]

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault celebrated its one year anniversary on February 26th. Never heard of this vault? Well, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is is a secure seedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. This $9 million facility was built last year in order to preserve a  variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern. The Seed Vault [...]