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High Levels Of BPA Found In Cash Register Receipts, What You Can Do To Protect Yourself

Image Source: red5standingby Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC, has discovered that many cash register receipts contain levels of Bisphenol-A (BPA) hundreds of times higher than those found in




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Plywood homes were lighter and cheaper, and you could build them yourself

Another look back at some great designs for inexpensive homes.




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From bike lanes to solar, the UK has transformed itself since 2006

What a difference a decade makes.




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7 questions to ask yourself when planning a wedding

Challenge the notion that you have to blow the bank account just to throw a good party. There are smarter ways of doing it.




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'Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children' (book review)

Author Sara Zaske shows that it all comes down to respecting a child's right to independence.




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Compact self-sufficient house has a terraced roof garden

This proposed home for a young family incorporates an efficient roof garden.




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Hey Google, this rooftop solar cooker is perfect for your self-driving car

Why turn your car into a living room when it can also be a kitchen?




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NASA's Advanced Space Tech Gets Turned Into Self-Aware Eco Building

NASA is using decades of space exploration technology to build a new eco-aware base here in California.




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The First 3290% Energy Self-Sufficient Town In Japan

Yanaizu Town, Kawanuma District, Fukushima Prefecture is rural-at-best and about as far away as you can get from the big cities. The town recently made the news when Chiba




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Questions to ask yourself when buying clothes

Following these guidelines can help you to build a higher quality, longer-lasting wardrobe.




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Flip Side of Local - New Hampshire Sees Opportunity In Food Self-Sufficiency

University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally-produced food system. The good news: farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' of food -




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Six Selfish Reasons You Don't Want Dead Oceans

TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from




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Selfie-takers are trampling Dutch tulip fields

After thousands of euros' worth of damage, the tourism board is begging young people to be more respectful.




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This high-tech, grow-it-yourself medical cannabis kit is as easy as using an app

Seedo, creators of automated consumer grow labs, will shortly plant a seed in the U.S. medical marijuana market.




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Self-powered fish tag tracks fish for as long as they swim

Long-living fish can now be tracked for their whole lives with a single tag.




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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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The Honda IeMobi is a mobile autonomous living room and the future of self-driving cars

The car changed the design of our houses; the AV will change our houses and the way we live.




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How will self-driving cars affect our cities? Two views

Phil Levin thinks it will change real estate completely; Christian Wolmar thinks it is ludicrous tech nerd fantasy.




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Bike industry bigwig says bikes will need to communicate with self-driving cars

They want to build beacons into bikes. Will implants in pedestrians be next?




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Conservatives and pinkos unite in hating self-driving cars

Judging from what I am reading all over the political map, I suspect that autonomous cars are the new Juiceroo.




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There's a Ford self-driving round games/meeting room in your future

A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now.




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Pedestrians will have to be "lawful and considerate" in a world of self-driving cars

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.




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Self-driving car gets stuck in the slough of despond

In which we learn a new and useful word: techno-chauvinism.




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$80 billion has been spent on self-driving cars with nothing to show for it.

We are wasting too much time, energy and money on autonomous vehicles. We know what to do and it's not AVs.




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This robotic lawnmower fuels itself with the grass it cuts, then harvests excess biomass for later use

Could this be the lawnmower we've all been waiting for?




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If More of Us Love Nature, The Environment Will Take Care of Itself

Like the word 'sustainability', 'environmentalism' has become a hollow word, a word divorced from meaning, a word lacking in soul, separated from its essence.




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Google's self-driving car hits the road this summer

These may be limited to 25 MPH, but the era of autonomous cars is coming at us really fast.




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The troubling link between self-care and capitalism

The covering-yourself-with-blankets movement isn't nearly as cuddly as it seems.




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Solar wagon delivers a self-contained portable water purification system

One solution for purifying water in remote off-grid areas comes in the form of a wagon, complete with solar panel and water purification system.




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Self-filtering water bottle also acts as a flashlight

The ÖKO Odyssey water bottle actually has six functions!




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'Whimsical scientist' seals himself inside greenhouse for climate change experiment (Video)

This man wants to prove a point about rising global carbon dioxide levels by locking himself inside this DIY greenhouse for the next three days.




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Inquisitive Emperor penguins star in delightful selfie (video)

Australian Antarctic Division captures a vision of curious penguins ready for their close-up.




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Go knock yourself out with unconventional parenting, but please stop talking about it

"Most people are already operating ‘off grid’ in different ways to varying degrees, but the vast majority don’t feel the need to make a big lifestyle song and dance about it."




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Buenos Aires is doing a fantastic job of transforming itself into a more livable city!

Showing other cities around the world how it's done.




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You don't need to travel around the world to take selfies with art

Just take them with big photos, nobody will ever know.




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Boeing develops self-cleaning airplane loo

“If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.”




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Wildlife selfies are a terrible idea

The animals get distracted and distressed. Oh, and you could get your head bitten off.




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Photo: Pelican packs itself up like a pro

Our photo of the day is a lesson in efficiency.




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Self-sufficient couple builds their own floating off-grid island (Video)

Dubbed "Freedom Cove," this remarkable home is a decades-long labor of love built in an inlet in British Columbia.




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Just What We Needed Dept: A Bed That Makes Itself

How to waste a whole lot of technology and energy to do a very simple thing




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Costa Rica wants to stop animal selfies

The social media-driven practice is harmful both to wild animals and selfie-takers themselves.




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FREITAG introduces a "sweat-it-yourself" bag that is totally customized

Thought there wasn't enough variety? Now it is endless.




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Coming soon: the Robomart, a self driving vegetable bin

Silicon Valley keeps thinking up fresh new ways to clog our roads, kill jobs and destroy main streets





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Shield Your Home this Winter with #AHSWinterMaintenance Tips - Cover yourself with a home warranty

Be Prepared! Protect your home from sudden heating repairs with a home warranty from AHS this winter. Home warranties help homeowners control repair or replacement costs during a break down.








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West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. and HealthPrize Technologies Announce Self-Reporting and Barcoding Capabilities for Self-Injection Technology - West and HealthPrize Collaboration

West and HealthPrize are collaborating to provide an end to end connected health solution for pharmaceutical companies and the patients they serve.