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Egypt's Endangered Species in Media Spotlight

Amid all the upheaval in Egypt, one local newspaper is working to keep the fate of the country's natural resources from falling off the radar.




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Bloomberg News Launches Sustainability Section

The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.




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How Yoga Can Harmonize the Body & Planet

While the NYT article offers an exaggerated cautionary tale, its alarm-ism can lead many to throw the beautiful practice of yoga asanas (postures) out with the bathwater.




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85% of Americans Want Better Environmental Coverage. Let the Media Know.

What does it take to get improved environmental coverage in the media?




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Tired Title, Boffo Finish in "It's Not Easy Being Green"

Who says the New York Times is ignoring climate and the environment? David Leonhardt writes about the importance of doing something about climate, in a political climate that makes it tough.




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New York Times spikes the Green Blog

Did I mention that nobody cares about the environment anymore?




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4 reasons The Washington Post sale is no big surprise

Jeff Bezos' purchase is just another step in the long march away from newsprint.




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Passive House movement gets noticed by the New York Times

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.




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Quote of the Day: Timothy Egan on A Mudslide, Foretold

It appears that this act of God had a little help from man, and was an accident waiting to happen.




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Idiocracy in the New York Times: John Tierney on recycling

"Cities have been burying garbage for thousands of years"- so lets keep doing it!




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New York Compost riffs on the city’s iconic muckrakers

The classic daily newspaper box gets updated by a New York artist.




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Coastal property values take a hit due to climate change

Why can't the Wall Street Journal call it what it is?




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Wood buildings are back, and the New York Times is on it!

And whatever you do, don't read the comments.




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Dear Globe and Mail editor: Cancel my subscription!

Margaret Wente trots out every 20-year-old trope spouted by tired old discredited climate change deniers.




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6 lessons from a rental kitchen

Using someone else's tools and space has forced me to adjust my approach to cooking.




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10 non-culinary tools that are handy in the kitchen

Raid other rooms for items that can help you cook more efficiently.




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Some thoughts on owning an Instant Pot

I thought the appliance would save me time, but mostly it gives me peace of mind.




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Why standing on the subway makes you look younger

Studies show that standing has anti-ageing effects.




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Witness the amazing hamster wheel standing desk, perfect for the office rat race

The wheels on the desk go round and round.




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A walk around my new "active office" with standing desk

Because standing desks cannot stand alone.




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Standing desks are good for school-age children too

New research suggested benefits for giving students the option to stand during class.




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Finding the time and space to work at home

In this installment of Town & Country, Margaret and Katherine share how they work from home.




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This portable standing desk is lighter than your laptop

For people like me who work all over the place, portable standing desks can be pretty useful




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The Floyd Shelf is a smart bracket that could be a smart shelf or standing desk

But there is a real question of how much one should pay for an artisanal shelf bracket.




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Is Text Neck really a thing?

is looking down at your phone really like putting an aardvark on your head?




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The office of the future may have no seats or desks at all.

Just throw yourself wherever you want to work; your office is where you are.




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Rise up, Rise up! Yet another study confirms that sitting on the job is bad for you

And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.




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Smart desk moves you between sitting and standing throughout the day

The high tech answer to keeping you moving while working.




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5 tips for transitioning to a standing desk

Switching to a standing desk doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing endeavor.




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Here's the best treadmill desk we've seen yet, designed long before all the other ones

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.




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Herman Miller introduces new "Sit-to-stand" desks

It is better than a fixed standing desk? They make a good case for it.




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Standing desks help children pay attention in school

Do the benefits of not sitting all day ever end?




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Artifox's solid wood standing desk has a place for everything

This standing desk is packed with clever organization features, and can be customized for left or right-handed people.




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The silliest standing desk setup we've ever shown on TreeHugger, complete with high chair

It sorta defeats the purpose in about twelve different ways.




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This gorgeous standing desk is sleek, smart, and sustainable

Made by NextDesk, the Encore is ideally green, with bamboo top, recycled aluminum frame, and VOC-free coating - perfect for this TreeHugger writer!




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Just what we needed dept: A $25 standing desk

Is that a cheap standing desk, or an expensive cardboard box? Hard to tell.




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At IDS16: an affordable, minimal and ergonomic standing desk

It's really all you need in this era of notebook computers.




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A new study says standing desks don't have any benefits. Or does it?

It actually seems to say that you can give someone an adjustable desk but you can't make them stand. That's a very different thing.




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Can't stand a standing desk? The New HOVR might get you moving

It's clever, cheap, burns calories and keeps the blood flowing and heart pumping.




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Standing desks are so yesterday; try a treadmill desk for a really energizing experience

After 52,696 steps, a review of a LifeSpan treadmill desk.




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New study says using a standing desk doesn't burn calories

Just standing isn't enough; you gotta move.




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Researchers at Texas A&M develop a bossy and nosy standing desk

It tells you when to get up and to sit down, and checks up on you too.




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New study confirms that adjustable standing desks make you happier, healthier and more productive

Because people gotta move.




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Sit-stand desks get mixed reviews

They're good for some things, but researchers say they're not the magic bullet solution for health that many would like them to be.




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It's summer solstice time! Here's what to know

The 2019 solstice falls on June 21 ... celebrate with a crash course in curiosities about the longest day of the year.




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Lawsuit Pressures Coal Plant to Stop Killing Millions of Fish in Lake Erie

Remember the story of Ohio's Bay Shore coal-fired power plant, the one that (perfectly legally) kills at least 46 million fish a year? Well that's still happening, but not without some legal challenges. A coalition of




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What To Do With Discarded Christmas Trees? A Habitat For Fish And For People

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic




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Coastal Marsh Plants, Adapting To Road Salt, Increasingly Common Along Midwest Highways

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half