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.

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1. Planika Fires: Official Website, See Photo Gallery
2. “Nothing screams impeccable taste like having a fireplace in the middle of your coffee table”
3. See More Photos and Interior Decorating Examples Here
4. Looks Cool - If You Want Your Family to Die a Horrible Burning Death!
5. Alternative Fireplaces: Digital, Compact, Wall-Mounted, Tabletop

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.

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1. In Case You’re Curious About Specs, Like Ram Size and Chipsets and Whatnot
2. “Forget the MacBook Air, I want a bamboo laptop!”
3. CNET Has Specs, Photos
4. It’ll Cost You Around 900 Pounds to Go Green
5. Trackpad Features Handwriting Function That Lets You Write with Your Fingers
6. Dell’s Bamboo Eco Computer…Surprisingly Doesn’t Cost an Arm and a Leg
7. Techies Discuss Pros and Cons on Notebook Discussion Board
8. Asus EcoBook Bamboo Laptop Prototype Gallery
9. The Ecobook Is Ecofriendly from the Inside Out
10. Asus Has a Whole Line of New Bamboo Computer Concepts
11. The New Green PCs from Dell, Asus
12. Asus Now Officially a Strong Brand
13. Playengine Bamboo Casings PC Monitors, Keyboards and Mice

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.

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1. US-based Nonprofit: Dress for Success
2. Treehugger Touts the Reusability Factor of Clothing Libraries in Australia and England
3. Great Idea for Moms Growing Out of Their Maternity Clothes
4. Clothing Library Keeps 1500 Outfits on Hand for Homeless People with Job Interviews

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.

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1. Ice: The New Frontier
2. Polar City Illustrations (2121 A.D.)
3. Polar Cities for Day After Tomorrow Survivors Will Save Us All From Horrible Deaths
4. Norway Builds Giant Shelter For The End Of The World
5. Clusters of Modular Polar Cities
6. Polarcity.org
7. Model Polar City Resident List

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.”

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1. Help Support Plantlife Using Adopt-a-flower
2. Ethical Valentines Day Gifts
3. “Tell Supermarkets to Stock Eco-Certified Flowers!”
4. Flower Workers Inundated by Chemicals, Must Wear Protective Clothing
5. Buy Ethical Flowers for Valentines Day
6. Don’t Forget Ethical Chocolates, And Other Ways to Green Your V-Day
7. Flowers Flown from African Have a Smaller Carbon Footprint than Those from Europe
8. Large Supermarkets Now Offering Fairtrade and Organic Flowers