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Could an Artificial Leaf Power Your Home? [VIDEO]

Mar 29th 2011 – 12:17PM
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Getty Images

Bead Recycling Program Gives New Life to Carnival Throws

By Dave ThierMar 11th 2011 – 5:24PM
AP

AP

NEW ORLEANS -- Mardi Gras may be fun, but it isn't exactly green. Excess is the name of the game, and New Orleans delivers. A single rider on a parade float might throw more than 3,000 beads –- and there are hundreds of riders in each of the city's 40-plus parades. The result is a vast sea of beads, millions of them...

Pranksters Blamed for Turning Canadian River Fluorescent Green

By Ben MuessigJan 10th 2011 – 4:19PM
YouTube

YouTube

The Goldstream River didn't live up to its name last month when the Canadian waterway started flowing bright green. The river, which runs through the city of Langford, British Columbia, turned a fluorescent green on Dec. 30, when a passer-by captured stunning video of the verdant waterway. At first it wasn't clear what...

Green Screen: Inside the World's Smallest Solar-Powered Movie Theater

By Ben MuessigDec 8th 2010 – 7:04AM
Courtesy Sol Cinema

Courtesy Sol Cinema

(Dec. 8) -- Lights, camera ... environmental action? You might say it's an inconvenient truth, but the movie industry is anything but green. With their supercold ACs and flashy marquees, movie theaters require a great deal of energy. Except for England's Sol Cinema. The tiny mobile movie theater -- dubbed the world's...

Background on green

Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometers.

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