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Fish Farm Taps Biodiesel From Fish Guts

A commercial fish farm in El Borboton, Honduras is using fish guts--heads, skins, and internal organs--to produce biodiesel. Instead of dumping what's left after filleting for commercial sale, Saint Peter's cooks the parts down to produce 300,000




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Students Build Bike-Powered Charging Station from Scratch

Northern Arizona University student from a range of departments built the charging station piece-by-piece to educate fellow students on the energy used by their gadgets.




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Nanogenerator could charge your phone from the vibration of your moving car

Just keeping your phone in your car's console during a drive could charge the battery with this novel tiny generator.




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Kenya's Plastiki? Boat Made From Plastic Bottles & Old Flip Flops

It's not an 8,000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, but it's still pretty cool.




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Kenya to get 50% of electricity from solar by 2016

There's been much talk of Africa "leapfrogging" the paradigm of fossil fuel dependence. Kenya's latest announcement on solar power provides a vision of what that might look like.




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Hawaii flips switch on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion plant, harvesting clean energy from the sea

It's the first plant plant of its kind in the states that generates electricity from the temperature differences in the ocean.




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Honolulu bans pedestrians from “distracted walking”

More pedestrians are getting killed in the roads. Are their phones really the reason?




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Hawaiian volcano offers gifts of gemstones delivered from the sky

As if to say 'sorry,' Kilauea softens its fury by tossing shimmery green olivine to the humble humans below.




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300 tons of radioactive water has leaked from Fukushima

More than two years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan, the situation is worse than ever.




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Battery made from a diamond and nuclear waste could last thousands of years

The technology turns the problem of nuclear waste into a source of safe nuclear energy.




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What can we learn from a radioactive cloud over Europe?

Can a rare metal travel without a passport?




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On MNN: Bikes stopping for red lights! And other reporting from Copenhagen

Also a look at smart phones for boomers and for refugees, and making the Raspberry Pi higher.




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On MNN: Big beds, Working from home is the worst, the death of the stick shift.

And a really nice solar decathlon winner.




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On MNN: Digital memories, ads from the future, On telling time, and is Wellness the new Green?

and really, are Christmas lights screwing up your Wi-Fi?




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Final words from Be The Change 2007

The Be The Change conference last week was chock-a-block full of fascinating speakers, enlightening information and inspiring actions. So far we've shared George Monbiot and Richard Reed's presentations and Drew Dellinger's poetry. We're just sorry we




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It's time to free ourselves from our "thrall to the metal god"

George Monbiot on how electric vehicles are not the answer.




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Go ahead and AVA Byte of fresh produce from this countertop garden

This soil-free smart garden promises fresh greens and veggies that are grown as local as it gets.




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Device that harvests energy from human motion could be seamlessly integrated into clothing

The device is so thin it could be woven into fabric without changing the feel of it.




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This simple trick has saved 1000s of rare seabirds from death

Between 2002 and 2015, these 'streamer lines' helped reduce seabird by-catch in Alaskan fisheries by 78%.




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9 iconic animals brought back from the brink

The recovery of these beleaguered species proves that conservation action works.




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Walking Away From Haz Waste

On a cold and windy November weekday there aren't any cars lined up at the new Kretsloppsparken (Waste Park) Alelyckan outside Gothenburg, even though there are four lanes available - a veritable expressway! - for vehicular drop-off of practically every




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Get off-grid & emergency power from this solar briefcase & battery packs

The HANS Solar Briefcase and PowerPack systems do double duty by supporting the Billions in Change movement.




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Solros delivers sunlight in a cable from dish to table

A new way to deliver natural light to rooms without windows.




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Tea-growers enraged by Sainsbury's withdrawal from Fairtrade

The UK grocery chain has long been a Fairtrade champion, but recently announced it would invent its own 'fairly traded' certification scheme.




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Stylish apartments built from stonecutting town's wasted material (Video)

Shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Awards, this elegant building makes good use of wasted stone generated from a town's large stonecutting industry.




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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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Edible Garden Sprouts from Plastic Waste in Ethiopia

Artist Kebreab Demeke's colorful, functional sculpture is among around a dozen projects examining the meaning of 'the good life' on display at an exhibition in Berlin.




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London Exhibit Explores the Mysterious Human Brain, With Samples From Geniuses and Body Snatchers (Photos)

"Brains: The Mind as Matter" at the Wellcome Collection features 150 objects including real brains, anatomical models and artworks, and more.




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12 Innovative Ways to Rethink Our Cities From the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale

The U.S. Pavilion is spotlighting grassroots efforts to make cities and neighborhoods greener, safer, and happier places to live.




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Art Made from Mt. Everest Trash Exhibited in Nepal

Sixty-five porters and 75 yaks labored over two years to bring more than eight tons of trash down from the slopes of Mount Everest -- and into the hands of local artists.




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Eco-Ideas from Toronto's Green Living Show

It seemed a bit smaller and emptier this year, much like the green movement in general.




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Tim DeChristopher Barred From "Social Justice" Work While in Halfway House

Tim had planned on working at a Salt Lake City Unitarian church doing social outreach. That is, until the Federal Bureau of Prisons decided that wasn't a "safe" occupation for the climate activist.




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Naomi Klein's 'Leap Manifesto' calls on the Canadian government to divest from fossil fuels

Klein, author of 'This Changes Everything,' launched the Leap Manifesto at the Toronto International Film Festival. Read and sign it here to join the call for a more sustainable and equitable future.




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New York City's Mayor de Blasio to divest from big oil and sue the companies

Changes closer to home would be nice too.




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Notes from a digital detox

Or, what happens when you go without Facebook and Instagram for an entire month.




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5 new species from the Eastern Himalayas

As with many biodiversity hotspots, new discoveries are being made all the time.




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Dirty Rags; from old uniforms to funky object (Photos)

What can you do with 1.285 bright green used uniforms? This was the brief the design students at Elisava school in Barcelona received by Urbaser, a local waste collection and urban




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Trump administration will try to exempt specialty bulbs from energy efficiency standards

Mini-spots, reflectors and candelabra bulbs were supposed to become more efficient next year, saving 80 billion kWh.




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Small loads from Internet-connected devices all add up

Our always-on devices turn out to consume a lot of power. Do I really need to connect my garage door to the Internet?




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The top ten posts of the week, from good apartments to bad eggs

Also we've got electric motorcycles and hot rocks.




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The top <s>ten eleven</s> twelve posts of June from yoga mats to wind turbines

With a few tips from Grandma thrown in.




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Top ten posts of the week, from no poo to cozy rooms

Plus two ways to go green as we upgrade our popular series.




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Top ten posts of the week, from eating bugs to rolling coal

Not to mention getting buried in dirt or building with it.




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The top ten posts of the week, from Teslas to tiny houses

Plus lots of green things.




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Top 10 posts of the week from cupboards to toilets

With a visit to a festival and a brown lawn.




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The top ten posts of the week, from fair trade undies to fair trade coffee

And a few looks back at themes of the last ten years.




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From MNN: A roundup of roundups

Lloyd Alter's favorite stories from our sister site.




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Citing threat to human survival, doctors divest from fossil fuels

Climate change is already killing people around the world. Now the British Medical Association has vowed to do something about it.




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Petite Mort: Precious ethical furs handmade from roadkill

Millions of animals are accidentally killed on US roads every year. Here's how one company is turning these sad statistics into something useful, beautiful and respectful.




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London assembly tells mayor: Divest £4.8B pension fund from fossil fuels

The motion is non-binding, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter.