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Leading the charge of today’s green deals is a one-day only sale on the GoTrax Everest Electric Dirt Bike at $1,000 off. It is joined by a collection of discounted wood pellet grills and smokers, with the KingChii Pro Series 02 Wood Pellet Smoker and Grill standing tallest at a new $266 low. Last but not least, WORX has some outdoor tools and combos on sale with the 20V PowerShare 10-inch Cordless Chainsaw landing at $99. Plus, all of the other best new Green Deals landing this week. Head below for other New…

What are we going to do about global heating, about mass extinction, about our rivers? What ability do we have to change things, now that power lies mostly in the hands of unaccountable corporations and shameless demagogues? Is there even any point in trying? The narrator of Stone Yard Devotional, who has been working in species conservation, chooses that most seductive solution – despair. She leaves her life and marriage in Sydney and checks into the retreat house of an enclosed convent on the Monaro Plains in New South…

The fires are out at Tilford’s Wood Fired Pizza. The business, one of the original concepts in Edgewater Public Market, closed its doors and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy as Tilford’s Edgewater LLC on March 1. Chapter 7 bankruptcies are typically a liquidation process, where a trustee is appointed to oversee a selloff of the debtor’s assets. Tilford’s owes $605,939 to 14 creditors, according to court filings, and has assets worth $18,326. Burton and his wife opened Tilford’s Wood Fired Pizza as a food truck in 2016…

In the lab, Foray has demonstrated the feasibility of making samples of fragrance products, and they’re working to refine their process to improve and scale production. But generating successful cell lines—finding the right recipe to turn on the production of target products in the cells—is especially challenging. And because fragrance products are largely derived from more than one compound, getting those in the correct proportions hasn’t been easy. “We’re bringing biomanufacturing to forestry, and leveraging its tools…

The cancellation of Westworld in 2022 came as a shock for multiple reasons. HBO’s marquis lineup of prestige dramas have generally gotten to end on their own terms, and the sci-fi show seemed like it was hoping for one last season to tie everything together. Instead, we’re left with questions about how things could’ve gone, something even its cast is still wondering about.Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, lead actor Evan Rachel Wood (who played Dolores and…

If you own the Pixel 8 Pro and would like to get a truly nice case for it… well, we may have just the thing for you. Carved announced its ‘Live Edge’ real wood cases for Google’s Pixel 8 Pro flagship. You can now get a real wood case for your Pixel 8 Pro, from Carved These ‘Live Edge’ cases launched for the Pixel 7 series last year too, in case you missed that. They’re now available for the ‘Pro’ variant of Google’s latest flagship phones, but not for the regular Pixel 8. In any case, for those of you who don’t know,…

Roy Wood Jr. had a subliminal message for Comedy Central as Trevor Noah accepted his Emmy Award on Monday night: “Please hire a host.” As Trevor Noah accepted the award for Outstanding Talk Series for his final season as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central Monday night, Wood Jr., one of the correspondents on the show, silently mouthed his plea to find a replacement for Noah. (The show has been rotating guest hosts since the show since Noah’s departure.) “Please hire a host. We don’t care. Please hire a…

Science and technology never fail to amaze us. Researchers are putting efforts into using transparent wood for phone screens. It’s tougher and lighter than the glass we usually use. And here’s the kicker: it can bend, too, and it doesn’t break into sharp pieces but into tiny bits. Further, it’s cheap to mass produce. While still in its early stages, transparent wood holds immense promise for the future of phone screens. Transparent wood for phone screens could be the future Lars Berglund from the KTH Royal Institute of…

Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried Fink managed to create transparent wood, and he published his technique in a niche wood technology journal. The 1992 paper remained the last word on see-through wood for more than a decade, until a researcher named Lars Berglund stumbled across it.Berglund was inspired by Fink’s discovery, but not for botanical reasons. The materials…

These days even niche industries have concerned souls looking for more eco-friendly options for materials and processes, from washing machine waste to artificial wool. Lingrove is taking on laminates — thin layers of wood and other materials — with a carbon-negative option that they claim performs better while looking as good. Laminates or veneers are common in every home and car: they’re the thin decorative wood or what have you that sits on top of the molded or printed body of a dashboard, appliance or even home…