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Gisele Bündchen and Don Cheadle have an environmental challenge for you

Celebrity ambassadors call for support for the UN’s World Environment Day.




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The Year In Strange Design: 20 of the Oddest, Ugliest and Most Useless

I really didn't know where to start, there is so much terrible stuff around




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Micro-apartment has carousel closet under the bed

This once-derelict small apartment has been renovated on a budget into a more modern space.




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Riversimple won't sell its Rasa hydrogen car, but will lease its mileage

Goodbye car ownership, hello "mobility as a service."




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'Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children' (book review)

Author Sara Zaske shows that it all comes down to respecting a child's right to independence.




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Compact self-sufficient house has a terraced roof garden

This proposed home for a young family incorporates an efficient roof garden.




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Hey Google, this rooftop solar cooker is perfect for your self-driving car

Why turn your car into a living room when it can also be a kitchen?




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NASA's Advanced Space Tech Gets Turned Into Self-Aware Eco Building

NASA is using decades of space exploration technology to build a new eco-aware base here in California.




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The First 3290% Energy Self-Sufficient Town In Japan

Yanaizu Town, Kawanuma District, Fukushima Prefecture is rural-at-best and about as far away as you can get from the big cities. The town recently made the news when Chiba




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8 companies that sell high quality fair trade and organic teas

Craving the perfect cup of tea on a chilly morning? Here are some companies with ethical business practices worth supporting.




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Selenium Contamination Linked to Two-Headed Trout Near Idaho Phosphate Mine

A government report has found that selenium contamination is connected to fish deformities, including two-headed trout.




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Questions to ask yourself when buying clothes

Following these guidelines can help you to build a higher quality, longer-lasting wardrobe.




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Beautiful, historic town in Sicily is selling homes for $1

Sambuca, the "City of Splendor" is hoping to save its historic structures and revive a waning community.




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Flip Side of Local - New Hampshire Sees Opportunity In Food Self-Sufficiency

University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally-produced food system. The good news: farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' of food -




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IKEA is now selling solar systems, no Allen key required

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.




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Six Selfish Reasons You Don't Want Dead Oceans

TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from




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Up Close and Personal with Natural Selection in Action: The Tale of Two Islands of the Galapagos

Each of the islands in the Galapagos is incredibly different. From landscape to ecosystem to the endemic species that can only be found in that




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Selfie-takers are trampling Dutch tulip fields

After thousands of euros' worth of damage, the tourism board is begging young people to be more respectful.




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From table to tank: Neste will turn Finland's Christmas ham waste fat into renewable diesel

Just think what the waste fat from 46 million Thanksgiving turkeys could fuel.




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Intensely layered papercuts highlight plight of endangered animals

The art form of papercuts is taken to another level with these intricate works that draw attention to some of the world's threatened species.




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Groundhog EV Day: Ohio car dealers want to prevent Tesla from selling in the state

It's déjà vu all over again, with the old guard trying to stop the newcomers...




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Wing Bikes is selling an e-bike that costs less than a New York Metrocard

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.




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Fish Farm Taps Biodiesel From Fish Guts

A commercial fish farm in El Borboton, Honduras is using fish guts--heads, skins, and internal organs--to produce biodiesel. Instead of dumping what's left after filleting for commercial sale, Saint Peter's cooks the parts down to produce 300,000




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Mussels test positive for opioids and chemo drugs

Over the course of three months, previously clean mussels picked up a slew of contaminants from the waters of Puget Sound.




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Do electric cars generate as much particulate pollution as gas and diesel powered cars?

No they don't. Whether or not you buy into this study, the fact remains that cars are cars are cars.




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It's time to free ourselves from our "thrall to the metal god"

George Monbiot on how electric vehicles are not the answer.




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Fuselage is a flat pack cabin inspired by airplane design

Sleek and easy to assemble, this portable cabin offers a comfortable place to stay even in remote places.




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This high-tech, grow-it-yourself medical cannabis kit is as easy as using an app

Seedo, creators of automated consumer grow labs, will shortly plant a seed in the U.S. medical marijuana market.




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Self-powered fish tag tracks fish for as long as they swim

Long-living fish can now be tracked for their whole lives with a single tag.




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It's not just self-driving cars, it is a whole New Mobility Now

A new study looks at how AVs are part of a much bigger picture of how we get around.




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The Honda IeMobi is a mobile autonomous living room and the future of self-driving cars

The car changed the design of our houses; the AV will change our houses and the way we live.




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How will self-driving cars affect our cities? Two views

Phil Levin thinks it will change real estate completely; Christian Wolmar thinks it is ludicrous tech nerd fantasy.




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Bike industry bigwig says bikes will need to communicate with self-driving cars

They want to build beacons into bikes. Will implants in pedestrians be next?




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Conservatives and pinkos unite in hating self-driving cars

Judging from what I am reading all over the political map, I suspect that autonomous cars are the new Juiceroo.




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There's a Ford self-driving round games/meeting room in your future

A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now.




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Pedestrians will have to be "lawful and considerate" in a world of self-driving cars

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.




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Self-driving car gets stuck in the slough of despond

In which we learn a new and useful word: techno-chauvinism.




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$80 billion has been spent on self-driving cars with nothing to show for it.

We are wasting too much time, energy and money on autonomous vehicles. We know what to do and it's not AVs.




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Palm Oil Biodiesel, Now With 2000% the Emissions of Fossil Fuels

Can we just all put palm oil biodiesel produced on deforested peatlands to rest already: A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme shows that biodiesel production under these




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Healthy school lunches are useless if there's no time to eat

With limited hours in the day, many U.S. schools are prioritizing lesson time over lunch time, leaving kids hungry and miserable.




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This robotic lawnmower fuels itself with the grass it cuts, then harvests excess biomass for later use

Could this be the lawnmower we've all been waiting for?




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If More of Us Love Nature, The Environment Will Take Care of Itself

Like the word 'sustainability', 'environmentalism' has become a hollow word, a word divorced from meaning, a word lacking in soul, separated from its essence.




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UK's National Grid supports 2030 petrol/diesel car ban

The electricity grid can handle a ban, ten years earlier than law makers are aiming for.




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Google's self-driving car hits the road this summer

These may be limited to 25 MPH, but the era of autonomous cars is coming at us really fast.




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Nissan and Mackie deliver ice cream without diesel exhaust PM2.5 sprinkles on top

Batteries recycled from old LEAFs run the refrigeration equipment in this all-electric truck.




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Renewable Tradition: Baltimore's "Arabbers" Sell Produce On Residential Streets - In Horse Drawn Carts

Wikipedia carries a definition of Arabbers which includes this:An arabber (or a-rab) is a




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Tesla wins battle to sell its electric cars in Maryland, but more fights are coming...

Thanks to an exception for "electric or non-fossil-fuel-burning vehicles". Maybe all other states could do that so that other EV makers don't have to face what Tesla is facing?




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The troubling link between self-care and capitalism

The covering-yourself-with-blankets movement isn't nearly as cuddly as it seems.




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Diesel Motorbike Speed Record Smashed

The DIE Moto, the diesel-engined motorbike which we have covered before, has broken the land speed record for a diesel motorbike, with a speed of 130mph.




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Celebrate Pi Day tomorrow at precisely 3.141592653 (about 9:30 AM)

Tomorrow, real men eat quiche (cheese pi).