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CSA Now Delivers By Sailboat to Cut Carbon

A sail-powered CSA delivery scheme shows how low carbon transportation can become a brand asset.

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Bauhaus: 100% Solar, Electric Houseboat in Action

We've drooled over this solar-powered beauty before. But we've yet to see it in action, until now.

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Cargill to Stop Using Least Efficient Ships

The agribusiness giant is sending a major signal to ship owners that fuel efficiency matters.

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Floating Garden Flourishes on a Barge

It's an allotment garden on an abandoned barge, and it feeds the boating community.

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Wretched Excess Department: Is Steve Jobs' Yacht a Hit or a Miss?

It seems so out of character

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The Boat Project is a Sail Boat Made from Wooden Memories

It's Olympic art--a boat that was made from donated wooden items and was sailed along the coast of England.

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I'm On a Boat. On a Roof. In London. (Exclusive Pics)

Picture this: on-the-spot shots of this adorable boat on top of a theatre in the middle of London

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Oru Kayak is an origami boat

Anton Willis designed the Oru Kayak so he could continue enjoying boating, without requiring a big garage or loft apartment to store a canoe or kayak

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Shipwrecked coal ship is now home to a floating forest

Its contrast of rust and lush vegetation against the city skyline acts as an easy allegory for degradation and renewal.

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Canoe paddles with a stylish flair

Here comes summer and a new, stylish canoe paddle might make it even better.

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The Exbury Egg is an " energy efficient self-sustaining work space"

Artist Stephen Turner will live in it for a year and "provide a voice for mute nature".

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FishPi: A solar-powered, Raspberry Pi controlled, autonomous ocean explorer

A project to create an automated trans-oceanic boat powered by solar energy that can take scientific measurements on its journey is in the works.

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Planet's biggest solar boat pulls into Paris after 60,000 kilometers of...

The MS Turanor has 500 square meters of panels and can sail for about three days without sun before using backup batteries. Are solar container ships next?

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Team 11th Hour Racing shows how sailing can be "cleaner, faster, better"

Hannah Jenner and Rob Windsor aka Team 11th Hour Racing, will soon depart from France en route to Brazil, to raise awareness of the environmental challenges within racing. Here are the tools they are...

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Car roof storage container doubles as a boat for camping (or when you're...

It sounds strange but actually, it's a pretty clever idea both for those who want to enjoy a row in a lake without investing in a trailer and hitch, and for those who live in flood zones.

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Tesla unveils electric car that can turn into a boat — Tesla Model Y

Tesla may have outdone itself this time.

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Blistering barnacles! Ship's paint can save 9% of fuel use, and even earn...

When stuff sticks to ships, it slows them down and uses more fuel. Now a new biocide-free paint may help ship owners slash fuel use and claim carbon credits too.

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Could the next transit trend be water buses?

A new study from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering indicates that

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AC-DC power switch cuts ship fuel use by up to 25%

Changing how ships generate onboard power can have a significant impact on overall fuel use.

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Old fishing trawler becomes wave power plant

The Norwegian ship has been given a new clean energy life.

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The canoe trip of a lifetime

How six young men are pursuing ‘adventure for adventure’s sake’ as they paddle upstream across the North American continent this year.

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Autonomous solar boat begins voyage across the Atlantic

This potential solar first isn't funded or backed by a big company, but is instead an ambitious project built by two friends in their spare time.

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Restored 100 yr. old houseboat is one alternative to London's housing crisis

This floating houseboat home has been renovated with a modern interior, while respecting the character of the original and historic icebreaker boat.

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Winterproofed houseboat with a rooftop deck is a tiny hotel on the river (Video)

Here is one woman's version of simple living on the river, in a boat that is equipped to see the tough northern winters through.

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This boat will travel the globe with solar, wind, and self-generated hydrogen

The Energy Observer has been dubbed "The Solar Impulse of the seas" and could usher in a new era of ocean travel.

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Please don't call my beloved canoe a 'symbol of cultural appropriation'

As a Canadian who's been paddling longer than I've been walking, I take issue with the suggestion that we should view the canoe as a product of theft and genocide.

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Autonomous solar boat will recreate Mayflower's historic voyage on its 400th...

The Mayflower Autonomous Ship project aims to build and sail "the world’s first full-sized, fully autonomous unmanned ship" across the Atlantic in 2020.

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Retrofitted yacht uses off-the-shelf solar & wind products to power its...

Vittoria Energy Expedition is sailing from DC to Cuba, visiting communities along the way where renewable energy is making a difference.

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Freight ship deploys spinning sails to cut fuel use

The retrofitted columns could, apparently, cut 10% of the ship's fuel.

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French startup will put 'flying' electric water taxis to work in Paris

It's like Uber for 'flying' water cars, with an über-cute name: SeaBubbles.

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