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Deby Cowdin recycles glass bottles to create magical artwork

Posted by AditiJ on 18/11/2009

Deby Cowdin shows the world the importance of recycling with her artistic and exquisite creations. The artist, who has been working with glass for nearly 15 years now, gave birth to From the Blue Bag, a company that recycles glass to shape unique...

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US: Ratify Childrens Treaty

Posted by Human Rights Watch on 18/11/2009

(New York) - The United States should ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is supported by nearly every other nation in the world, Human Rights Watch said today. The United States and Somalia are the only countries that have failed to ratify the Convention, which was adopted 20 ye ...

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Ghost Forest: An artful installation awakening the world

Posted by AditiJ on 17/11/2009

Art has always been a way of getting your thoughts across. These days artists are seen focusing on environmental issues. Walking on the same line is Angela Palmer, an artist whose artwork the Ghost Forest aims to encourage and provoke debate...

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Iowa plant to employ MIT-developed technology to make bioplastic from corn

Posted by DeshRaj on 17/11/2009

MIT biology professor Anthony Sinskey and his former postdoc Oliver Peoples are opening a new factory in Iowa to produce bioplastic from corn using MIT-patented technology. Targeting annual production of 110 million pounds of the new bio-plastic, the.

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Rising Currents: Soft infrastructure solutions to rising sea levels

Posted by AditiJ on 17/11/2009

MoMA has collaborated with P.S.1 in order to find solutions to sea level changes that are expected for Manhattan shores. Earlier this year the New York City Panel on Climate Change predicted that global warming could lead to an increase in the level..

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