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'24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week' (book review)

Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain explains how going offline for a full day each week can change your brain, body, and soul.




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New Packaging Tells You How to Reuse It Creatively

Creative crafters can come up with all sorts of beautiful and innovative ways to




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Paul Watson's Arrest Bringing New Focus to Costa Rica's Anti-Shark Finning Efforts

Two ships of shark fin poachers have been stopped in the past two weeks, influenced by renewed government focus on the issue due to Paul Watson's case in Germany.




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Meet the singing mice of the cloud forests (videos)

When two male Alston's singing mice meet, they sing an operatic duet that researchers say offers clues about our own speech.




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Is this the beginning of the end for traditional Christmas shopping?

British retailers brace for "unbelievably bad" profits this year. Can climate change be blamed?




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Arctic foxes are 'ecosystem engineers' who grow beautiful gardens

Researchers discover how Arctic foxes modify their dens to make the surrounding land more fertile.




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General Motors and Cruise introduce the Origin Toaster-Car

It will be electric, autonomous and shared. Where have we heard that before?




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Minimalistic Collapsable, Hanging Bookshelf Made with Recovered 35 mm Film

Made from wood and recycled movie film, it's perfect for small homes or urban renters always on the move.




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Imaginative kids' bedroom features space-saving, cave-like bunk bed

Reminiscent of a bear's cozy cave, this bedroom for children maximizes the small space in a playful way.




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Oil industry magazine puts Tesla on cover, "beginning of the end for oil?"

Is the oil industry starting to be worried about electric vehicles?




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Vacuum Cleaner Made From Its Own Cardboard Packaging

One of the biggest floor-care brands in Britain has unveiled a cardboard vacuum cleaner made from its own packaging, the Vax ev. And it was created by a student.Open and Assemble—Without the Packaging Waste The vacuum is sold in a




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Much Of US South Experiencing Extreme Drought - Let The Water Wars Begin

Large swaths of US southern states are experiencing severe drought




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In New York, New LEED-Certified Hotel Opens with Free Bike Sharing and EV Charging Stations (Photos)

While the greenest vacation is often a staycation, it's nice to know that when you do travel, whether it be for business or pleasure, a hotel can meet you half way.




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How a 'Smart Supermarket' could do away with plastic packaging

A hopeful report by Greenpeace envisions a future where supermarkets have gotten rid of superfluous waste.




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Recycling packaging is important, but doesn't the inside count?

Why so much focus on packaging when product waste is equally important to consider?




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Effective frequency in sustainable messaging

In our mission to close the “green-gap” through sustainable messaging, every bit of insight counts.




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Changing the narrative of “disposable” plastics

We need to see plastic for what it is: nearly-indestructible, highly polluted and far from disposable.




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5 packaging materials you didn’t know are difficult to recycle

How many of these common items have you placed in your blue bin?




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Less isn’t always more when it comes to product packaging

“Lightweighting” often shrinks down packaging into items that are unrecyclable, difficult to capture, highly polluted and designed without end-of-life solutions.




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Changing the paradigm of consumption

Companies are in position to shift away from a linear towards a circular product economy that is at once regenerative and restorative.




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From food packaging to cleaning supplies, the kitchen is a vortex of disposability

Wastes are made in the kitchen.




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'Paper engineer' folds experimental works merging science & art

These fascinating works explore how folding might push the frontiers of flexible photovoltaics, self-assembling materials and nano-forms.




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How to make air travel (a bit) less damaging

We know it's bad, but people still do it, which is why we still need to talk about it.




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"Flight Shame" is actually changing the way people travel

Domestic flights in Sweden are declining and airport expansion plans are being reconsidered.




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London cracks down on drivers who sit with engines idling

It's about time more cities did this.




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Crowdfunding campaign raises $3m to save gorgeous fjord from logging

"It's just an amazing, amazing thing that people have done."




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Construction begins in UK on first subsidy-free wind farm

Corporate commitments to clean energy mean renewables are harder than ever to derail.




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How Stella McCartney is encouraging people not to buy new clothes

With a renewed partnership between the fashion label and resale consigner The RealReal, McCartney is coaxing consumers into a circular economy.




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Charge your own batteries as well as your car's at these park-like charging stations

COBE architects are turning charging time into quality time.




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Bringing back extinct species - continuing progress towards restoring the Aurochs

What progress has been made since the first wave of media excitement about this project? We catch up on the news of efforts to breed an ancient species back from extinction




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California's iconic fog is bringing super-toxic mercury ashore

Researchers find that the neurotoxin is carried in by coastal fog, deposited on the land, and then makes its way up the food chain where it is approaching toxic thresholds in pumas.




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This pandemic is changing how my family eats

The pace of cooking has slowed down because we suddenly have extra time.




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THE BOX could eliminate cardboard and plastic packaging waste

It's a lot more than just a box, it's packaging as a service.




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People eat so much chicken that it's changing the geological record

Until now, no species has had such a profound effect on shaping the Earth's biosphere as the humble broiler chicken.




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All over the world, engineers declare climate and biodiversity emergency

This is turning into a really big bandwagon.




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The prefab dream: Talented architects working with a great builder offering original designs

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes




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On MNN: Aging suburbs, the trough of disillusionment and being wrong about everything

And a look at Amazon's office morale.




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Is wireless charging the most important thing announced by Apple?

Our never-ending search for convenience comes at a cost.




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TreeHugger in Mongolia: How a Warming Climate is Changing Business in Mongolia

We're traveling with UNEP to cover World Environment Day and document how the host country of Mongolia is adapting to a changing climate.




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How hard is it to walk in American suburbs? Worse than I imagined

On the Mouzon scale of 1 to 10 for walkability, this intersection gets -10.




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Buy the original IKEA tote for $1 or get a knockoff for $2,145

Luxury fashion designer Balenciaga has released a Italian leather version of IKEA's iconic utilitarian shopping bag, leading one to assume the world has lost its mind.




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Solar powered scooter engineer needs a hundred monkeys

If you dream of testing the limits of solar powered mobility, but don't have the DIY gene, here is someone who can help




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Electric scooter share doesn't even require charging stations

Just pick a scooter, drive it, then park it. Someone else takes care of the charging.




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Elate Cosmetics now offers 'Perfectly Imperfect' packaging

The bamboo palettes and compacts have minor flaws that, in a way, make them even more special.




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Imagine a world reliant on robot bees to roam the fields and meadows

Welcome to your dystopian nightmare installment #4692.




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Yucatan Travel Journal, Day 3: The Cave of the Hanging Snakes

Snakes, spiders, and bats in a tight space may sound like the stuff of nightmares, but Kantemó, Mexico, is actually an incredible place to visit.




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McDonalds to begin buying "sustainable beef" in 2016

A new initiative from the fast food giant aims to rethink the global meat industry. But is that even possible?




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Imagine meatless Monday at the school cafeteria

Is the dream of sustainable agriculture a nightmare for the beef industry?




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Danish Council on Ethics releases its report on beef as a 'climate damaging food'

The report argues why a beef tax would be an effective step toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions and why we should all be paying more for climate-damaging foods.




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Designer DIY Idea: Swinging Bed Made With a Recycled Trampoline

A lovely lounger made from reused trampoline parts.