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Professional chefs are dumping gas for induction ranges

It lets them be creative with their cooking and the kind of spaces they set up in.




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Rooftop cooling system reflects sunlight and sends excess heat out into space

The technology uses radiative sky cooling to help cool buildings without electricity.




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Sir David Attenborough: Oceans under threat "as never before in human history"

The veteran naturalist and broadcaster is not holding back (this time).




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Kroger to create and adopt a no-deforestation policy

The largest grocery chain in the US will develop and implement a new plan to improve its protection of tropical forests.




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Here's how we are killing off the fireflies

Serious threats are endangering lightning bugs across the globe; and they are all thanks to humans.




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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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4 reasons why you shouldn't buy prefab tiny houses on Amazon

Caveat emptor.




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Quebec architects and prefab builders offer "eco-housing kits"

The promise of prefab was healthy, cost-effective, energy efficient homes designed by talented architects. Is it finally here?




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Plant Prefab goes tiny with the Sunset BUD LivingHome

They're designed as temporary living for Malibu fire victims, but nice enough that they might never leave.




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Coming to a backyard near you: Plant Prefab accessory dwelling units

With aging baby boomers and young people who can't afford housing, there's going to be a huge market for these.




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William McDonough at Dwell on Design: A More "Effective" Not Just More "Efficient" Future

A compact chicken coop for city dwellers that wheels around the yard and fertilizes soil is on display at "Dwell on Design" this weekend. The show's awards recognize




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The prefab dream: Talented architects working with a great builder offering original designs

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes




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The benefits of grouping houseplants together

Strategically clustering indoor plants in a group is a great idea, here's why and how to do it.




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In Defense Of TetraPak

TetraPak, the company that makes aseptic milk carton-like packaging that holds everything from wine to soup to tomato sauce, has been receiving a lot of coverage in the green media lately, both good and bad. This surge in




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Vedanta Resources' Orissa Bauxite Refinery Expansion Blocked by Indian Government

Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the




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Aluminum-clad Airship prefab is a durable, off-grid tiny home (Video)

Built using aluminum, stainless steel and wood, this modular prefab is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled.




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NASA's new efficient super computing facility will save 1.3 million gallons of water a year

The computing facility will help researchers with NASA missions while reducing its environmental impact.




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This tiny prefab's big mission is to help at-risk youth

This tiny house has a distinctive peaked roof and a warm, modern interior.




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Accessible tiny home helps elderly woman age in place gracefully (Video)

This lovely little home was built for a woman who wants to be closer to her loved ones, without losing her autonomy.




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Fairtrade International takes prize for most effective label

Despite recent criticisms, a new report shows that Fairtrade International is doing better work than any of its competitors.




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Only 7,100 cheetahs left on the planet

Huge decline surprises scientists who say that the world’s fastest land animal won’t escape extinction unless urgent conservation action is taken.




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Luxurious Lupine tiny house features grand kitchen for chefs

This spacious tiny home is great for entertaining and cooking up a storm.




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Off-grid 'micro-refuge' re-interprets the classic A-frame cabin

Visitors to this regional park can rent this minimalist cabin in the woods.




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Modular prefab Drop Box is a portable habitat for natural locations

Intended for short-term stays in nature, these prefab units can be transported and 'dropped into' almost any location.




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Can TWIN elevators make buildings more energy efficient?

Thyssenkrupp's TWIN elevators have a very unique feature that could save buildings energy and space.




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Hurry! 4 Days left in the Instructables Green Design Contest

There's just a few more days to submit your project to this fun contest, with the chance to win some great prizes!




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Alternative Social Housing: Prefab, Add-On Homes to Densify Suburbs

How to provide housing for the masses getting out of poverty and out of slums in the developing world, without creating sprawl? Argentine architects propose attaching new homes to existing structures.




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School Joins Frontlines of Energy Efficiency with Absorption Chiller

It's not every day the more industrial inner workings of a school district are featured on the front page of TreeHugger, but if you’re looking for a school that’s on the cutting edge of energy conservation and making smart use of taxpayer dollars look




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Where Wiffle Ball's a Crime There May Be No Child Left Outside

With kids across America suffering from a severe case of nature deficit disorder as technology creeps in and takes over their room for creative play it may come as a surprise that a group of kids putting together their very own field of dreams on which




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California Leads the Energy Efficiency Race: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Releases 2008 Scorecard

So you think you're doing everything you can to improve your home's energy efficiency. And if you haven't done everything you can do personally, both TreeHugger and Planet Green have plenty of tips on how you can get up to




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Mountain Lion Walked 1,800 Miles Before Being Hit by Car

Last month, a mountain lion was struck and killed by a car in Connecticut -- and new details have emerged suggesting the animal had an incredible, record-breaking journey before it met that sad end. Following the accident,




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Health benefits of walkable cities won't be realised without reducing automobile use

Yet more ways that cars and trucks are killing us and ruining cities.




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8 steps for using a paper planner effectively

Paper planners are effective only if you use them properly and regularly. Here are some ways to get into the groove, if you're not yet an addict!




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Job-creating bags will reuse lifejackets & boats of refugee crisis (Video)

Mountains of discarded materials sourced from refugees' boats and lifejackets will be transformed into bags -- by asylum seekers themselves, for a decent wage.




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Lost Property clothing library is a brilliant solution to wasteful fashion

A collective wardrobe spares resources, reduces clutter, and provides a steady stream of fabulous outfits. It's win-win all around.




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Efficient City Farming wins top award at the "Academy Awards of Cleantech"

Taking the category and best in show prizes will help Efficient City Farming get the funding to grow!




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Teledisko: Defunct payphone booths repurposed as mini-discos

You thought disco was dead? Not with these old payphone booths, now transformed into ultra-exclusive, tiny dance clubs, complete with the disco ball.




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Globalized Beef, Palm Oil & Timber Corporations Now Main Cause of Tropical Deforestation

Confirming what previous studies have shown, new research from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that the main threats to tropical forests are no longer from




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BPI's Response to Outrage Over Ground Beef? 3 Governors and a T-Shirt

Beef Products Inc took its best shot at making up for its silence during weeks of public lashing over what has been dubbed “pink slime,” an additive in ground beef made through a high-tech process that BPI invented.




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Pink Slime Makers Sue ABC News For Defamation

The suit, brought in South Dakota court, seeks over a billion dollars in damages against ABC News -- even though ABC never originated the term and was just reporting what everyone else was calling it.




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Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef

The world quietly reached a milestone in the evolution of the human diet in 2011. For the first time in modern history, world farmed fish production topped beef production.




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McDonalds to begin buying "sustainable beef" in 2016

A new initiative from the fast food giant aims to rethink the global meat industry. But is that even possible?




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How many showers would you skip to help the beef industry?

Would you go stinky for steak? By skipping 26 showers for every 4 oz hamburger you eat, you can offset the water used to produce it.




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Danish Council on Ethics releases its report on beef as a 'climate damaging food'

The report argues why a beef tax would be an effective step toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions and why we should all be paying more for climate-damaging foods.




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Study says grass-fed beef isn't better for the planet

Under perfect circumstances, grazing cattle do sequester carbon, but most of the time that's not the case.




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Grass-fed beef is threatened by nutritionally-deficient grass

"Since the mid-90s, levels of crude protein in the plants, which cattle need to grow, have dropped by nearly 20 percent."




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What is castile soap? Uses and benefits

It's the most versatile household cleaning product you can buy.




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In last-ditch effort, scientists create embryos of almost extinct rhinos

There are only two northern white rhinos left, and they are both female; but now scientists have created two viable embryos and there is hope.




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Refreshing tiny house is built using gooseneck trailer

This kind of trailer means you can eliminate the head-banging sleeping loft.




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Chinese Fruit Bats Demonstrate Unusual Sexual Behavior Never Before Seen in Adult Animals

New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior. While the behavior has