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Ping pong holds promise for improving Parkinson’s symptoms

After weekly ping pong sessions, participants in a pilot study had significant improvements in speech, handwriting, getting dressed, getting out of bed, and walking.




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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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Shop class deserves a more prominent role in schools

Girls and boys have a lot to gain from learning to work with their hands




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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.




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Canadian Conservative leader (and possible Prime Minister) promises the earth

Andrew Scheer is a climate arsonist.




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Home design lessons from the coronavirus

It's time for a rethink about what's really important in a home.




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Roman concrete lasts a long time, but it won't stop rising seas

New research sheds new light on why Roman concrete is so strong and water resistant, but let's not get carried away here.




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Soccket Soccer Ball Generates Power from Play

Just 30 minutes of play time can power a lamp for three hours.




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Urinal generates power from pee in England

The toilets could be used to power lighting in refugee camps.




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Batteries from old smartphones could light up rural areas

The batteries could provide back-up power for small solar power systems.




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Looking forward from World Water Day 2018

World Water Day may be one day out of the year, but taking the time to reflect can help us make long-lasting impacts that we can carry forward.




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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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All short-haul flights from Norway could be electric by 2040

When the heck did electric commercial flight become a realistic prospect?!




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Artist's polychromatic quilts tell powerful stories using recycled fabrics

Using various vintage fabrics, many with a story behind them, this artist portrays ordinary people and historical figures with an artful eye.




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Can "green growth" save us from the climate crisis?

Do we have the political will to do what has to be done? Simon Kuper doesn't think so. I do.




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KLM to fly on 'sustainable aviation fuel' made from cooking oil

They say it reduces CO2 emissions by 80 percent. Does it really?




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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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Unilever promises to cut plastic use in half by 2025

The consumer products giant says it will "fundamentally rethink its approach to packaging."




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Bon Appétit's Test Kitchen promises to be more sustainable in 2020

A list of 10 resolutions shows that big changes are coming to the professional food world.




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Marriott removing plastic straws from its 6,500 hotels

The largest hotel chain in the world joins the move against straws.




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SodaStream launches device to clean plastics from ocean

This is the first-known attempt of a commercial company to undertake a physical clean-up of trash from open waters.




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Patagonia gave $10m from 'irresponsible tax cut' to eco causes

'Instead of putting the money back into our business, we’re responding by putting $10 million back into the planet. Our home planet needs it more than we do.'




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Dreamy Danish holiday workshop village is entirely built from trash

Artist Thomas Dambo and his team of elves built this wonderful recycled village in Copenhagen where DIYers can make all of their gifts for free.




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Picks and pans from the INDEX: Design To Improve Life Competition

A look at some of the nominees which are brilliant, and others that are something else.




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Water sports center is built from old shipping containers

The project in Denmark is a good object lesson.




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Maersk to end carbon emissions from shipping by 2050

They don't know how they are going to do it, but it is a bold promise.




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Cows, Goats Escape from Slaughterhouse, Only to be Forced Back In

Dozens of sheep and goats broke out of a slaughterhouse in upstate New York on Tuesday night, and gave police quite the runaround.




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The UK's Most Expensive Milk..From the World's Happiest Cows?

It's cow bliss at a dairy in Hertfordshire, England run by the Hare Krishnas. There are only 44 of them but life is sweet: On this farm all the cows have names, they are hand-milked whilst listening to Sanskrit music and




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Ancient clams give forth glassy pearls that came from outer space

Researchers studying fossil clams in Florida believe they found the souvenirs of an ancient meteorite.




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Energy from subway tunnels could heat and cool thousands of homes

Another good reason to pile density onto subway lines: Almost free heat and cooling.




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How to cook grains from the bulk bin

From amaranth to wheat berries, here's how to cook grains that don't come with instructions.




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This Christmas, we should take a lesson from the Germans

Stand around a fire and sip mulled wine. Skip the last-minute shopping. Give time, not stuff.




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Scientists may have just saved the northern white rhino from extinction

With only two members of the species left, a successful egg harvest and fertilization could mean all is not lost.




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The TH Interview: Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth - Middle East (Part One)

Bromberg, then a young lawyer working for an environmental NGO in Tel Aviv, was frustrated that environmental issues were not




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The TH Interview: Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth - Middle East (Part Two)

In part one of this interview, Gidon discussed FoEME's work in promoting cross-border




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From wave power to clean water: SAROS is a wave-powered desalination system

This system could produce 3,500 gallons of clean water per day, at half the cost of current desalination methods, using just the motion of the waves to power the Reverse Osmosis process.




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From Gnocchi to Toffee Pudding: 8 Gluten-Free Recipes from the Blackbird Bakery Cookbook

Who says wheat-free can't mean indulgent? Best-selling cookbook author Karen Morgan offers up irresistible (and also vegetarian) main courses, snacks, and desserts.




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Where did COVID-19 come from?

To end new zoonotic diseases like coronavirus (COVID-19), humans need to start staying in their lanes.




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Citizen M hotel is a demonstration of the promise of prefabrication

It's an industrial design approach, a product that is refined almost to perfection.




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Stealing from the Future

The omission of ecological services in economics is the equivalent of double bookkeeping: one set that looks (relatively) rosy for us and another for our children.




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Get houseplants delivered straight from the greenhouse

If you don't have an independent plant shop nearby, Bloomscape is the next best thing.




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Third Time Lucky, the NeoRomántico Bench Goes Cradle to Cradle (Photos)

Santa & Cole takes its environmental policy one step further by obtaining the Cradle to Cradle Certification (C2C) for its 100% Aluminum NeoRomántico Liviano Bench




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Someday we might get 100% of our aluminum from recycling (using only 5% of the energy)

Recycling aluminum uses about 95% less energy than making new one from bauxite ore, which compares very favorably with other types of recycling.