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Build a Micro-Hydropower Generator from CDs and Repurposed Printer Parts

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.




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Microgenerators Inside Water Pipes to Power Smart Water Sensors

Using the flow of water inside the pipes to power the water network's own monitoring devices could eliminate the need for batteries in those systems.




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Man powers his home from local stream with DIY micro-hydro plant

A man named Manfred Mornhinweg found the modern world too "noisy and hectic", so he decided to build himself a house on a quiet 40 hectare piece of land in Chile.




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A New "Lost Generation" Cycles Across Scandinavia To Understand North America

Toronto, a city rated as one of the most livable in the world by The




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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Gothenburg to Boras, Sweden Doesn't Strip

Sarah and I have spent the better




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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Rudolf Steiner Found, Thanks to James Turell

Leaving Boras takes us past a




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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Stockholm's Vision for Urban Life

We are at the end of our LostGen2 quest for the world's best city




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Sphelar Lantern uses micro-sphere solar beads to make solar lighting beautiful

These devices help solar lighting move beyond the flatness of traditional photovoltaic cells.




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Turning household waste into hot water, new tech is a micro power plant for homes

The bin-sized device would turn household waste into fuel for heating hot water.




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Gorgeous little flatpack cabin in the woods is made from cross-laminated timber

Norwegian architect Marianne Borge is designing a series of them in different sizes.




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CRISSCROSS flat pack furniture modules assemble with no tools needed (Video)

This flexible line of furniture is made for people who are on the move a lot, and need furniture that's easy to assemble and customize.




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Are these the tiniest microfarms of all? NYC artist grows food inside furniture

From chard on a chair to tat soi in a suitcase, artist Jenna Spevack is cultivating a tasty variety of organic microgreens in her furniture farms -- and visitors to her upcoming gallery show will be able to reap the harvest.




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Smart robotic multifunctional unit for micro-apartments transforms with touch of a button (Video)

This automated smart home system for small apartments takes the effort out of having to transform your all-in-one furniture unit by hand.




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Theatrical mobile unit creates multifunctional micro-apartment for two

Inspired by theater set design, this versatile volume holds storage and other hidden furniture.




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Summer cottage is prefabbed out of cross-laminated timber

In a country covered in wood, by a lake far from construction workers, it makes so much sense.




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Highest ever levels of microplastic found in English river

The levels were so high that scientists are revising up their estimates for global marine microplastic pollution.




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CrossFit is the new eco-friendly gym

It gets people in better shape using less equipment and energy.




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Katerra opens the world's biggest factory making Cross-Laminated Timber

At Woodrise 2019, Katerra CEO Michael Marks wows the wood world.




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Microsoft puts disposable wifi routers into magazine advertisement

Microsoft decided that a good way to advertise its cloud-based Office 365 software would be to actually put a T-Mobile wifi router with 15 days of free wifi inside a magazine advert.




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World's largest Cross-Laminated Timber apartment complex being built in Montreal

And a big part of the pitch is sustainability and comfort.




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Volkswagen designs "micromobiles" for life after traffic collapse

From scooters to cargo bikes, a bunch of alternatives to driving that car.




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Bird's head of sustainability on the future of micromobility

Melinda Hanson talks to TreeHugger about taking back the streets.




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London parents crowd-fund to install living wall at school playground to suck up pollution

But really, they should be dealing with the source of the problem.




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Cambodia's First Ethanol Plant Will Use One-Fifth of Nation's Cassava Crop

Just a quick one on ethanol and Southeast Asia: Chinaview.cn is reporting that Cambodia has opened the nation’s first ethanol production facility. Using cassava as a feedstock, at least initially all of the




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New carbon capture technology could help microbreweries recycle CO2 & cut costs

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.




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Help crowdfund solar for affordable housing

The Bay Area needs affordable housing. And it needs clean energy. A new campaign supports both.




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Illinois passes first microbead ban in the world

Finally one state is putting a stop to the "exfoliocean." Hopefully others will follow its lead, forcing companies to adopt eco-friendly alternatives.




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Greta Thunberg will cross the Atlantic by sailboat

It solves the young activist's dilemma of wanting to attend two U.N. climate change summits without relying on fossil fuels.




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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.




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Happy 50th birthday to the home microwave

The first affordable microwave changed the way we cooked- for a while, anyway




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Mom Charged With Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street After Kid Killed By Hit-and-Run

I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current transportation




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Australia's Invading Camels Soon to Be Croc Food

Locals in one region of the Australian Outback have been terrorized of late by a roaming band of feral camels. Drought conditions and a recent heat wave are being blamed for driving some 6,000 camels into residential areas near




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Brooklyn's new community micro-grid will allow for peer-to-peer renewable energy sharing

Solar panels, distributed energy, resilient microgrids, and blockchain. Oh my!




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Blushing pink 635 sq. ft. micro-home cleverly uses ramps, not stairs

Embedded in a hillside, this eccentric dwelling uses a series of functional ramps that connect all the spaces together.




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This Micro-Algae Lamp Absorbs 150-200 Times More CO2 than a Tree! (Video)

French scientist has invented a light powered by algae that absorbs CO2 from the air--1 ton per year! The microalgae streetlamp has the potential to provide significantly cleaner air in urban areas and revolutionize the cityscape.




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The CrossOver can transform any workspace into a standing desk

This beautiful product, made in the U.S. from sustainable and recycled materials, is my smartest office purchase to date.




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Alaska’s latest crop was once a Soviet military secret

Long admired for its beneficial medicinal properties, Alaskan farmers are happy to find that this Siberian herb loves their climate.




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Can Cross-Laminated Timber save the world?

Anthony Thistleton makes a persuasive case in a new book, 100 Projects UK CLT.




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Water 3.0 solves problem of microplastics and pharmaceuticals in wastewater

Current water treatment can't remove these wastes that are increasingly implicated in serious environmental effects




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Plastic eating microbes to the rescue: evolution may be finding a solution to the problem of plastic waste

Last week news broke that microplastics are found in 93% of bottled water and the highest levels ever were found in an English river. Can we ever clean this up?




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Even groundwater is contaminated with microplastics

This could mean we're drinking our plastic waste.




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Red Cross Uses Solar-Powered Pumps to Increase Water Access in Sudan

However the referendum in South Sudan turns out, one thing will not go away quickly: the lack of water in the region. The International Committee of the Red Cross, however, is at work on a project that will mitigate that




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Super fly hearing powers captured in miniature microphone

This biomimicry success promises advanced hearing aids as the headphone generation ages




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Solar roadways destroys crowdfunding goal, raises $1.5m

TreeHugger just keeps on having to eat its hat with these guys.




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Here's what a year of Mediterranean Diet can do to the gut microbiome

The diet appears to act on gut bacteria in a way that helps hinder physical frailty and reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find.




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Southern US Apple Growers Lose 2010 Crop Due to High Temperatures

I'm not saying you can directly attribute this one to climate change, but coming on the heals of NOAA saying the past April was the warmest on record, it's likely at least a sign of things to come: The Alabama Cooperative




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One In Five Canadians Crossing the Border To Get Into the Black Friday/ Cyber Monday Madness

It's one thing to drive to the mall, but one fifth of Canadian shoppers are driving to another country. That's crazy.




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8 storey Cross-Laminated Timber apartments win Finlandia Prize for Architecture

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."




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Glass & mirrors enlarge this cosmopolitan micro-apartment renovation

A clever redo of a small 376-square-foot apartment in São Paulo that uses lots of glass and reflective surfaces.




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Crowdfunding gets more green initiatives off the ground

Consumers are connected to the things they care about, providing access to ventures that have the potential to make real impacts.