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Science Buzz Planika Fires makes designy fireplaces that use a proprietary liquid biofuel called Fanola, which burns completely smoke and smell free. Experience the warmth of a wood-burning fireplace in the cold, austere ambiance of your minimalist, impeccably-designed living room.
Tech Buzz Just in time for Earth Day, Asus announces a new PC with a bamboo case that will be released in June. Here’s something that ecogeeks, techgeeks, and pandas can all get excited about. Mac users will unfortunately miss out, but I don’t know any pandas that are Mac users anyway.
Style Buzz A volunteer run organization in Australia loans out clothing to unemployed people for crucial job interviews. There’s not much buzz on these yet, but we’d love to see someone take the idea and run with it. It almost seems like something we can’t believe doesn’t exist in America yet.
Science Buzz Could polar cities be the fallout shelters of the climate change era? In a development that could be a major boon to the fleece industry, a group of futurists, scientists, and planners has proposed building sustainable campus-like villages throughout the Arctic hinterlands to save us from the coming environmental apocalypse. Construction on the first will begin in Longyearbyen, Norway, in 2012. If these plans are carried out, the incidence of polar warfare seems certain to rise.
Culture Buzz Find out more about ethical and fair-trade flowers for Valentine’s Day. If you met your Valentine off one of those eco-dating websites, some ethical flowers should take you to the next level of “soulmate.”
Yikes. Looks like we have a really big problem here, society.
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
