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Small House In Czech Republic Recycled From Ruins of Barn

The architects call it a "Conceptual Object" but it is pretty and real.




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Radical Product Transparency Via Carbon Mapping- Highlight from Opportunity Green

This past Thursday, at the business conference Opportunity Green, one panel entitled Next Generation Carbon Mapping: Radical Transparency and Truth in Advertising captured the attention of the standing room only audience at




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Rumpl's sleeping bag blanket is made from recycled plastic

With 100 percent recycled content, it's an impressive standard for technical gear.




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4 lessons learned from a year of extreme frugality

Personal finance writer Michelle McGagh weighs in on how to save money effectively.




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Landfill to lifestyle: This line of furniture is made entirely from post-consumer waste

A new entry to the eco-friendly furnishings market offers a collection of furniture and home accessories that comes with a bold set of standards.




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Elegant furniture made with discarded cables from Golden Gate Bridge

These old, thick cable ropes have done their job: now it's time to reuse them in a beautiful way.




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Some like it hut: bubbles and boxes from the Winnipeg Warming Hut competition

As always, they warm your hearts as well as your toes.




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A Waterloop is a Hyperloop from Waterloo

Engineering students come up with a hyperloop pod that floats on air.




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"Steam Canoe" winter station made from a new technology, Press Laminated Timber

The OCADU project won a Wood Works! award and will probably win a lot more to come.




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Lessons from Le Corbusier in sustainable design

Really, there is a lot to love about his work that applies to green building. Really.




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Digital artist creates "visual sounds" from Amazonian birdsongs (Video)

Nature gets digitized in these vibrant animations that feature audio recordings from the rainforest.




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'Critter cams' capture life from a bear's point of view (Video)

Biologists are now beginning to get a better idea of what urban bears are up to when they think no one is watching.




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The last surviving otter from the Exxon Valdez oil spill has died

"She was an amazing animal," says one of the rescued otter's keepers. "She taught a lot of people about conservation."




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MacGyver actor Richard Dean Anderson rode 5,641 miles from Minnesota to Alaska when he was 17

Though accompanied by several friends at the beginning of this trip, he traveled the last thirty-three days alone.




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4 Key Lessons Learned From The Death and Rebirth of Monterey Bay (Book Review)

So often we read books on ecology that detail the downfall of a species or habitat. Finally, here is a book that does the opposite, explaining instead the incredible comeback of one of the most important locales for marine




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The Midcentury Kitchen is a riot of color, from avocado green to harvest gold (book review)

Sarah Archer shows how the kitchen became the colorful nerve center of the modern house.




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6 zero-waste lessons from Paris

A visit to the French capital offers great lessons in how to make less waste.




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Verdes y Colores: Museum and Shop of 100% Local Products from Costa Rica

A venue which showcases and sells 100% locally produced design and artisan items while educating about sustainability and fair trade in San Jose, Costa Rica.




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Costa Rica announces plans to close its zoos and release animals from captivity

"We don't want animals in captivity or enclosed in any way," says Costa Rica's Environmental Minister.




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Everyone is ignoring the most interesting result from Finland's basic income experiment

Giving out money revealed something that flew in the face of a common American philosophy.




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Total solar eclipse as seen from the Arctic

Braving polar bears and subfreezing temperatures, years of preparation pay off for a University of Hawaii astronomy team.




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Protesters in Portland block Shell’s ship by suspending themselves from a bridge

Activists risk arrest in an effort to prevent slow oil drilling exploration in the Arctic.




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Patagonia urges U.S. government to protect Arctic Refuge from oil drilling

The Gwich'in people have been fighting this battle for decades, and now they need broader public support. Learn how you can help.




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How to work from home and not go crazy

TreeHugger writers have a lot of experience with this.




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Miracle moss removes arsenic from drinking water

The aquatic moss clears 80 percent of arsenic from a container of water in less than an hour.




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Dream of the 1920s: Complex from 1927 in Buenos Aires is Everything a Green Home Should Be

Low rise buildings, green common spaces, culture, and community living in a housing complex which has become the it living spot for Buenos Aires’ artistic types.




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Soon they will be shipping oil from the Alberta oil sands in little plastic tubs

Canadian National Railways figures out a crazy new way to mix oil and plastic – to what end?




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FYE Shoes - Fashionable, Affordable, Green & Responsible Footwear from France

Shoe lovers have more and more choice when it comes to buying eco-friendly shoes: Simple Shoes, Worn Again or TOMS are just a few of my favourites and I just found a new brand from France. FYE (for your earth) is a relatively young company that started




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Will Your Next T-Shirt be Made from Trees?

Photo: Flickr, CC Bye-Bye Cotton, Hello Cellulose Fibers Cotton is a great fiber to make clothes with, but unfortunately, growing it causes huge environmental problems. It's a crop that uses a lot of water, and most large cotton monocultures are doused




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"Save Fish, Eat Chips" and More Quirky Christmas Gift Ideas from DesignMarketo (Photos)

Great gift ideas from DesignMarketo, a platform diffusing up-and-coming designers’ small and limited productions. Our favourite: "Save Fish, Eat Chips" t-shirts!




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Levi's Launches Jeans Spun From Plastic Bottles

Levi's new denim line will incorporate on average, eight 12 to 20-ounce plastic soda bottles per jean.




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Johnson & Johnson's half-hearted switch from plastic to paper cotton buds isn't good enough

It's only happening in half the world. The rest of us can keep using plastic sticks. (Don't they know about ocean currents?)




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New Lessons From Old Buildings: Bin Laden's Medieval Hideout

I write often about the lessons that one can learn from old buildings, usually discussing ventilation and lighting. It turns out that there are lessons in security and defence as well; Eli Lehrer of Frum Forum notices some




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Wood Design from Spain; Bicycles, Trees and Heritage - Part 1 (Photos)

After the beautiful Xylophone of the Forest I shared with you last month, I came across a selection of amazing wooden designs from Spain, both century-old and brand new ones. Confemadera put together an impressive selection




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Wood Design from Spain: Fab Lab Houses, Wooden Islands and Spanish Guitars - Part 2 (Photos)

Last week I posted a stunning wooden bicycle, and the beautiful heritage of wooden ceilings in Andalusia from a series of wood design from Spain that Confeadera put together. Other works include the Fab Lab House, some




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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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From A to Zierfische; Obsolete Signs are Being Saved from the Dump at the Buchstabenmuseum in Berlin (Photos)

The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other!




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Orkney Islands: From diesel power to 100% renewables

Huge wind turbines, solar, wave power, battery storage and a lot of electric cars—these remote Scottish islands may provide a glimpse of the future.




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Hangar One makes vodka from San Francisco fog

It might cost $125 a bottle, but it tells a cool story about sustainability.




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9 tips to avoid illness from salad greens

In a cruel twist of irony, some of the world's healthiest food – leafy greens – have become some of the riskiest in terms of foodborne illness.




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Stay away from toddler milks

These new sweetened beverages are flying off store shelves, much to doctors' chagrin – and to children's detriment.




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10 ways to get the most from walking

No gym required: From frequency and stride to what to do with your arms, here’s how to get the world's easiest fitness fix.




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Industries And Power Plants Downstream From Atlanta Also Need Water: Not Just For Endangered Species After All

When Governor Sonny Perdue of the US State of Georgia filed a legal complaint and then formally asked for the support of the Bush Administration to force the US Army Corps of Engineers to stop releasing water from Atlanta's Lake Lanier, perhaps he did




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From Zero Waste to Buy Nothing: A family's quest for simpler, greener living

Adopting a waste-conscious and anti-consumerist lifestyle is not something that happens overnight. Sometimes it's nice to hear about other people who are just starting out, like this young family from southwestern Ontario, Canada.




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Learn to build a tiny house from salvaged building materials

Building and living in a tiny house can be a big step toward living more sustainably, but using repurposed salvaged building materials to build one might be the Holy Grail of green living.




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From Designboom: Update on Holedeck's tasty waffle slabs

Here is a way to squeeze six stories of building in the space of five.




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Staten Island residents fight to save green space from becoming condos

Mount Manresa was a community space owned by Jesuits, but has now been sold to developers.




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DIY dome homes built from AirCrete are an affordable & ecofriendly option

First there was foamcrete, then there was papercrete and hempcrete, and now we've got AirCrete, a foamy mixture of air bubbles and cement.




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20 foods you can make from scratch to avoid plastic

When you stop buying prepackaged foods, you have to start cooking them yourself. It's not that hard once you get into the swing of it.




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California hotels banned from offering mini toiletries in plastic

It's part of a statewide effort to crack down on plastic waste.