Inhabitat's Week in Green: solar hourglass, urban tornadoes and the world's …
Engadget
Argentine designer Santiago Muros Cortés just won the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition with his proposal for a gigantic solar energy-generating hourglass that could produce enough electricity for 1,000 Danish homes. In other green …

Sunglasses made from cannabis to become a reality as green-fingered graduate …
Mirror.co.uk
Sam Whitten, 24, and a pal came up with eco-friendly hemp shades while he was laid up with a broken leg while studying at Glasgow Caledonian University. The pair created prototype specs from hemp fibres, which are legal in the UK and are already used …

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Rezoning for Spag's site in Shrewsbury gets green light at town meeting
Worcester Telegram
SHREWSBURY — After hours of debate Tuesday night, town meeting members approved two articles needed to facilitate the development of an approximately 431,000-square-foot, mixed-use project on the site of the former Spag's warehouse, which has …

How to give a concrete floor a cost-effective update
Washington Post
Question: We built a two-room passive solar addition to the back of our home 20-plus years ago. The floors are concrete, which we painted dark gray at the time. We'd like to get rid of the gray and do something different, but the floors — in our …