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Simple cooking trick could save you 100 gallons of water, makes dinner better

If all Americans adopted this (almost) waterless method of cooking pasta, we'd save billions of gallons of water.




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These basic black leggings are made from recycled water bottles

Your favorite clothing item just got even better. These new leggings from Girlfriend Collective tick all the boxes when it comes to eco-friendly and ethical production.




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Emma Watson promotes ethical, sustainable fashion in new Instagram account

While advertising her new film "Beauty & the Beast", Watson wants people to think about how and where clothes are made.




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Donate Your Social Media Voice for World Water Week

Help amplify the message of the global water crisis by lending your social media updates to World Water Day 2012




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Best in Show: The Nexus eWater recycler saves water and energy

Waste water and waste heat recovery together at last, perhaps the most interesting new thing at Greenbuild.




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Giant Asian tiger shrimp invade US waters

Well, giant shrimp the size of your forearm are now a thing we can worry about.




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River Ethiope could be first waterway in Africa recognized as a living entity

Rivers are people too, you know.




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Man bikes on water to clean up plastics

Ladies and gentlemen, we've finally reached peak TreeHugger.




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Plastic bottles are the most common litter in European waterways

A report found that bottles have surpassed bags and straws when it comes to prevalence in freshwater rivers.




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The North Face and National Geographic are making clothes from plastic water bottles

The limited edition pieces are designed to give plastic waste a second life.




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Michigan Has Large Shale Gas Reserves, In The Great Lakes Watershed

The Michigan basin has extensive shale gas reserves, yet it is not a political issue for Democrats or Republicans. Why?




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Is Brown the New Green? Not Watering Lawns Works

It's catching on: homeowners letting lawns go fallow during the summer without wasting resources on watering. When I lived in Seattle it was a common practice. After the grass turns brown, come fall,




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10 beautiful underwater views from Google Street View

Take a virtual tour of these amazing spots.




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Sidewalk Labs releases its vision for Toronto's waterfront

It is a wonderful wooden and digital world, but will it ever happen?




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Freakonomics Watch: "The Primitive Food Movement"

The first Freakonomics book was a lot of fun; the second less so, as it sort of devolved into "if the scientific consensus and/or coast-hugging liberal elite are for it, we are against it" type of thing. Hence Freakonomics Watch; or perhaps it should




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GE's New Hybrid Water Heater is Super-Efficient—and Manufactured in America

The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being made in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades.




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We Are Like "Watermelons: Green On The Outside And Red Or Socialist On The Inside."

Name calling is so much fun. Maryland State Senator Richard Colburn, R-Cambridge, thought he was having some at our expense when he characterized




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Watch a green roof get installed on New York's Barclay Center

It may be the most expensive and useless green roof ever built




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ELEVATE puts a solar powered, green walled, rainwater collecting tiny house on a pedestal

Hawaiian engineers think that it can address many of the world's problems. Are they too ambitious?




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Food, Water, and... Permaculture? Rethinking Disaster Relief for Haiti and Beyond

A growing number of environmentalists are re-envisioning 'disaster relief' as something that can provide hope for the future, not just a hot meal and somewhere to sleep. Their tool of choice? Permaculture.




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Trend Watch: "Green Wrap" Virus Spreading As Major Bank Turns Plant Wall Into Billboard

PNC Financial Services Group, based in Pittsburgh PA, has built a plant-covered exterior wall, "to make its headquarters building more energy-efficient." Looking like one of those huge billboards seen along an




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Jargon watch - "cocktail geoengineering" takes fixing the earth to the next level

If one geoengineering plan doesn't work, maybe two or three combined will




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The Straight Poop On The Bio Toilet For Angkor Wat

Developed by




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Jargon watch: Aufstockung, or vertical additions

It's happening all over, and wood construction can make it even easier and faster.




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An Explanation of the Water Cycle (with Pictures and Diagrams)

Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink (or so we all learned as kids, right?), but it's definitely not as easy as that these days. In honor of World Water Day (which may or may not have been today), let's




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Just add water and sunlight to these gold stars to create renewable energy

In a double breakthrough, scientists find a material four times more efficient at making hydrogen by photocatalysis and demonstrate how to make it at low temperature




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Iceland asks tourists to drink tap water instead of bottled

After all, who wouldn't want a glass of "pure glacial water filtered through lava"?




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All of Patagonia's waterproof shells are now recycled and Fair Trade

Can we hear them saying, "I told you so!" to the rest of the outdoor gear industry?




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Underwater Robot Maps Antarctic Ice in 3D

The robot was part of a bigger mapping project that reveals the overall volume of ice in Antarctica, not just the ice cover.




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Freedom UV Water Purifier from SteriPen is Lightweight, Rechargeable and Simple to Use

Making sure the water you're about to drink is free from pathogens is a snap with this portable UV Purifier.




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Buy a T-Shirt, Give the Gift of 25 Years of Clean Water

Help fund solutions to the global water crisis by purchasing a t-shirt from a company that donates to Thirst Relief for each shirt sold - enough money per shirt to give one person access to clean, drinkable water for 25 years!




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Common Kitchen Ingredient Helps Clean Drinking Water

80% of diseases in developing countries trace back to contaminated water. Could a simple ingredient from the kitchen shelf solve the problem?




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15 Concepts and Solutions for Providing Clean Drinking Water

Clean drinking water is one of our basic human needs, but in many parts of the world, it's also hard to come by. Here's another look at some of the latest concepts for providing clean drinking water.




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Revolve Water Bottle Filters Tap Water While You Drink

The Revolve Tap Water Filtration system is an easy way to start choosing to drink tap water over bottled water.




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New Backpack Could Ease Water Carrying Burden for Women and Children

In some areas of the world, transporting water to where it is needed is a major burden, in terms of both time and health, but a new solution may help to ease that process.




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Beetle-Inspired Design Uses Old Plastic Bottles to Pull Water from the Air

A concept water bottle pulls water from the air like the Namib Desert Beetle.




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Water Treatment System Uses Salt and Electricity to Provide Clean Drinking Water to Thousands

Providing clean water in areas with minimal local resources may be as simple as implementing this ingenious DIY water treatment system.




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Silver nanoparticles in porous gel becomes bacteria-killing sponge for water purification

A new cheap, lightweight sponge-like gel can quickly and efficiently disinfect drinking water for disaster victims.




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Vast water reserve discovered in drought-stricken Kenya

The newfound aquifer contains enough water to quench Kenya for decades to come.




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Low-cost water filter alerts users when water is safe to drink

This little solar powered device can take the guesswork out of SODIS water treatment, showing when the resulting water is safe to drink.




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Solar wagon delivers a self-contained portable water purification system

One solution for purifying water in remote off-grid areas comes in the form of a wagon, complete with solar panel and water purification system.




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Thermal power plants use 4x more water than all US residents, solar PV doesn't need a drop

As you can see in the satellite photos above, California is experiencing a massive drought over most of the state. The most visible aspect from space is the snow cover (or lack thereof) over the Sierra Nevada mountain range




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Self-filtering water bottle also acts as a flashlight

The ÖKO Odyssey water bottle actually has six functions!




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Stash this collapsible water bottle in your pocket and turn back to the tap

It's time we made water bottles part of our every day carry (EDC) kit. This handy little bottle squishes down small enough to go everywhere you do.




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Good news for fracking: groundwater contamination mechanism found

The bigger question: why is the industry playing into the hands of the anti-fracking activists?




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Study links uranium contamination of US groundwater to nitrate run-off from farming

Radioactive uranium occurs naturally in soils but farming techniques may be causing it to dissolve into groundwater




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Plastic debris found in tap water, beer, and sea salt

You may think you're ingesting a safe, clean product, but you're really putting synthetic microfibers into your body.




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Reflective paint, free water, medical training: How Indian authorities slashed heat deaths 90%

We are by no means helpless in the face of climate change.




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75 percent of Venice just went underwater

That's more underwater than usual.




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4 billion bits of microplastics in the waters of Tampa Bay

And researchers estimate there's another 3 trillion pieces in surface sediments.