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Irish Anti-littering PSA Tackles the Problem with Humor (Video)

Anti-littering ad reminds Dublin residents to put trash in its rightful place--or else!




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Ireland may make high visibility clothing mandatory for cyclists, pedestrians and dog-walkers

People are "risking their lives every winter by wearing dark clothing."




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News Corporation Announces New Sustainability Targets for 2015 and Beyond

News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral.




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Bloomberg News Launches Sustainability Section

The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.




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A bike parking facility in Tilburg is even more beautiful than their bus station

It even has moving sidewalks for bikes. This is how you get people out of cars.




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Personal electric mobility is taking over Paris

Instead of banning these technologies, we have to figure out how to manage them. Because they are inevitable.




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4 foes of frugality

Look out for these things if you want to save money and consume less.




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Mayon Volcano Ready to Erupt, May Cause a Little Climate Cooling

Mayon is the largest of the Philippines' 22 active volcanoes, at 8,070 feet. The plumes of smoke and flows of lava make it seem like it is already erupting, yet scientists say the big fireworks could be still to come, and more than 40,000 people have




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Our urban problems aren't caused by restrictions on density, but by inequality

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.




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Sainte-Marie among the Hurons is lit by 5,000 candles at Christmastime

Called 'First Light,' this now-famous event at Ontario's first European-built settlement is a special experience for the whole family.




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Ontario Conservative politicians running from carbon taxes

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario




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Everywhere you look, the urban-rural divide is changing politics and stopping climate action

Populist leaders are more interested in cutting the price of gas than they are in stopping climate change.




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Montalba Architects' Bex & Arts pavilion is an evocative little box

This portable pavilion has a clever lightweight structure where the bookshelves hold up the roof.




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Cell phones charged by sound are now closer to becoming a reality

Nanotechnology breakthroughs have lead to a successful prototype of a device that could charge your cell phone with ambient noise or the conversations of users.




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Tiny entangled seahorse rescued, rehabilitated, and returned to the sea

Tangled in fishing line with things looking grim, the story of Frito's rescue is inspiring all around.




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Sawmill House by Olson Kundig wins COTE award for "design and sustainability"

I get the design part, but is it really sustainable?




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Greenpeace tech product guide ranks Apple, Samsung low on repairability

A consumer product guide compiled along with iFixit shows which brands make it easy to fix our gadgets and which don't.




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Make little museums part of your next car trip

There are everywhere, they are fun, and there is so much to learn from them.




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URIDU fights poverty & empowers rural illiterate women with solar powered MP3 players

The MP3ForLife device is loaded with 400+ answers to common questions about health, nutrition, family planning, and more, translated into more than 100 languages.




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This solar hydropanel can pull 10 liters of drinking water per day out of the air

SOURCE is a solar-powered and self-contained device capable of harvesting up to 10 liters of clean drinking water per day from the air.




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Anti-Littering Campaigns: An Idea Whose Time Has (More Than) Come in Turkey and Iran

In the northeastern reaches of Turkey, outside the city of Kars, I came across one of the most bucolic scenes I'd ever laid eyes on in the




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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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There are toxic 'little monsters' lurking in your children's new clothes

Join the DETOX campaign to pressure the fashion industry to stop exposing our kids to hazardous chemicals and contaminating waterways.




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A Note to Mayor de Blasio: Don’t forget the environment as a cause of inequality

Environmental initiatives are integral to addressing the "tale of two cities" that Mayor de Blasio campaigned on.




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RIP Nano, the little car that couldn’t

Tata kills the world’s cheapest car that nobody wanted.




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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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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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Do you eat for health or environmental sustainability? The Double Pyramid says you can do both

The Double Pyramid is an innovative way of portraying how the ecological footprints of our food compare to their nutritional value.




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Interactive exhibit tells a sustainability story through the lens of contemporary art

Art Works For Change is using a unique online exhibit to inspire change through storytelling, including 'featured tours' of the galleries by leading eco-organizations.




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Why sustainability photography needs to change

This could be why so many people ignore global warming.




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Should cities be allowed to ban Little Free Libraries?

There are reasonable limits on what people can do on their properties. But this goes too far.




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The iPhone is greener, but that's not the big sustainability story

The fact that it is supposed to last longer is a bigger deal.




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A Responsibility To Defend A Fragile & Glorious World: Judaism & The Environment

"A Jewish ecology is 'not




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CA approves utilities' massive $738 million electric vehicle proposal

This will mark a significant scaling of electrified transportation—including trucks and buses too.




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California utility offers rebates and incentives for going all-electric

SMUD demonstrate that all-electric living is actually cheaper than gas.




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California utilities will pay you to drive electric

And why not?




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The awful reality of e-waste as told in numbers

From 50 million tons of e-waste generated annually to 350,000 cell phones thrown away every day, the numbers behind our digital addiction are staggering.




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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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Rethinking The Food Label To "Inspire Food Literacy"

The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's News21 program and Good Magazine have shortlisted the three finalists in a competition to design a better food label. They "asked for designs that were informative, instructive and




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Energy Star Finally Starts Thinking About Health, Durability and House Size

One of the big beefs with Energy Star for housing is that all it cared about was energy; beat the standard code by 15% and you got it. No matter that the best way to make a house efficient is to make it tight, leading to all kinds of air quality




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Are Walmart's Eco-Efforts Enough? Balancing Sustainability & Social Responsibility at America's Largest Retailer

Walmart has been in the sustainability spotlight over the last few years, both for implementing its own efficiency measures and for raising the bar for industry at large. Some view these initiatives with skepticism because the




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Maryland Politicians Chicken Out on Arsenic Ban

Maryland's ban on arsenic in chicken feed would have been groundbreaking, but the bill has been gutted by lobbyists.




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Pioneering green roofed building by Ted Cullinan saved from demolition

It was designed to stay cool without air conditioning, and the green roof was part of the strategy.




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New hotel in Singapore "combines sustainability with delight."

A tropical skyscraper by WOHA and Patricia Urquiola is wrapped in a vine-covered sunscreen.




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Could this plan force politicians to work together?

This simple idea could change how governments deal with the environment.




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Save the trees! Sign up for Rainforest Alliance's 30-Day Sustainability Challenge

Get simple but powerful personal actions delivered to your inbox every 3 days; 30 actions in all – are you up to the challenge?




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Is London moving its carbon neutrality goal forward by 20 years?

A growing number of cities are getting serious about tackling the climate emergency.




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If we care about sustainability, should we still be building super-tall skyscrapers?

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?




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BMW Shows "Deep Commitment to Sustainability" With Pavilion for London Olympics

One more example of how words can become completely meaningless and even contradictory.




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Indoor Air Quality: Causes Of, Testing, and Monitoring Indoor Air Pollution

Pollution from power plants, cars, and other transportation is a well-known contributor to outdoor air pollution, but our indoor air quality is often worse; it can be up to 10 times worse for you than the air outside. Microbial pollutants like mold,