The Marginalian
The Marginalian

Reads tagged with “sustainability”

Catch of the Day
Catch of the Day

Preservation the surfer way, or why farmers’ markets are now selling condoms.

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Small World, Big Bite
Small World, Big Bite

The big picture painted through smallness and sprinkles.

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Buddhist Bottle Temple
Buddhist Bottle Temple

Beer, Buddhism, and $100,000 worth of world-changing photography.

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Geek Mondays: Unlimited Solar Power
Geek Mondays: Unlimited Solar Power

Why MIT geeks are throwing the best dinner party ever.

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The Mother of All Music Visualization
The Mother of All Music Visualization

What global warming has to do with the formative role of music in 20th-century culture.

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The Year in Ideas: 8 Best of 2008
The Year in Ideas: 8 Best of 2008

8 things that shaped the year’s innovation footprint, or what Buckminster Fuller has to do with tap water and Michael Phelps.

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Playing Nice: 5 Pro-Social Web Games
Playing Nice: 5 Pro-Social Web Games

Rice from Shakespeare, how to help cure cancer, 60 million ways spam helps literature, a first-person snooper, and solid proof you may be the wrong gender.

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Chris Jordan’s Photographic Visualizations of Excess
Chris Jordan’s Photographic Visualizations of Excess

What Van Gogh has to do with Big Tobacco and how piles of folded laundry put the prison system in perspective.

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Photography Spotlight: Blue Planet Run
Photography Spotlight: Blue Planet Run

World-changing photography, or why the oil crisis is the least of our liquid worries.

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LED The Way
LED The Way

How to stop global warming and hackers with the flip of a light switch.

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