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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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How to improve the zero-waste shopping experience

A few tweaks by stores could make the process more efficient.




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Canadian grocers have a smart approach to food waste

They're using the Flashfood app to give customers steep discounts and divert food from landfill.




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Clean Energy Credit Union launches to support low carbon transition

The online-only financial institution will provide low cost loans for solar, electric cars and even electric-assist bicycles.




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Rock in a box with Arkitema Architects' shipping container housing project

Using shipping containers for housing near a Danish rock music museum makes sense, sort of.




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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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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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"Cows Do Not Belong in Fields" - UK Mega-Dairy Renews Application

When I reported on a planned 8,100 cow super-dairy in the UK, I noted that many dairy farmers were concerned that these industrial-scale operations would expose the public to the fact that even most smaller




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Not Icky At All; the Happy Pig Farm

If shrimp can be happy on a farm, why not pigs? For all the weekday vegetarians and omnivores out there, here is a way to obtain sausages, chorizos and bacon in a friendly way. First of all, plenty of indoor and outdoor space




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7 energy-sucking activities I stopped doing during quarantine

Some might say it's slovenly. I call it cutting down my carbon footprint.




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Why will there be free wrapping paper in Sunday's NY Times?

For the Sunday, December 8 issue, a centerspread ad has been designed as a piece of planet-friendly wrapping paper.




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Startup Takes Google Street View Approach to Home Energy Audits

What if the Google Street View car took thermal energy scans of all the country's buildings and then built a database of building energy efficiency information? That's the concept behind startup company Essess's approach to home energy audits.




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New peer-to-peer seed sharing platform aims to facilitate a diverse seed supply

The Center for Food Safety's recently launched network is a bid to preserve global plant biodiversity and work toward food security around the globe.




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Restoring nature is climate equivalent of stopping burning oil

One-third of emissions reductions needed for 2 degree target could be achieved with better land management.




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Stackt, an instant shipping container shopping and entertainment spot, is built in Toronto

Sometimes shipping container architecture makes perfect sense.




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This supportive housing project in Los Angeles could be the future of the construction industry

You have heard of "fast fashion." Get ready for fast architecture in container-sized modules.




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You CAN Be Too Thin: Apple Dumps Sustainable Design Principle For a Few Millimeters and A Smooth Bottom For Design Fetishists To Fondle

In cars, houses, furniture and electronics, The trend was toward increasing repairability and simplifying recycling. Apple goes its own way.




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Transformable water bottle supports clean drinking water projects

Meet Dopper, a Cradle to Cradle water bottle company that’s bringing clean water to Nepal.




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Gogoro launches the VIVA, a lighter, cheaper, electric scooter with a swappable battery

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.




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Micro Compact Home Dropped By Helicopter Onto Site in Switzerland

You can't call an aluminum guest house dropped by helicopter green, but you sure can call it cute.




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Happy 25th birthday, Linux!

There's a lot for TreeHuggers to love about the little operating system.




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Ingenious micro-apartment renovation includes a 'disappearing kitchen' (Video)

Plenty of clever spatial overlaps and multifunctional pieces of transformer furniture in this renovation of a 376-square-foot apartment in Melbourne.




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Just in time for Teacher Appreciation Week: Project Learning Tree announces 2019 Leadership in Education Award Winners

Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6-10, 2019, with National Teacher Day on May 7. Every year, Project Learning Tree (PLT) recognizes the educators who have made the most significant contributions to PLT with the Leadership in Education award.




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Top 10 reasons to attend SFI’s annual conference: Forests of Opportunity

Every year, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative community comes together to exchange ideas, share innovations, and inspire those who have a vision of a world that values and benefits from sustainably managed forests.




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How to support farmers with your food shopping

Your focus should be on local growers, rather than those overseas.




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Don't throw apple cores out the car window

They can dilute the wild varieties, threatening their existence.




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Latest drone view of Apple HQ shows a building as shiny as a new iPhone

Things are moving quickly; Apple employees might get updated offices before Mac users get updated computers.




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Latest drone videos of Apple parking garage shows landscaping being installed

Oh, and the donut building on top is coming along nicely too.




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Apple AirPods get a big fat easter egg for repairability from iFixit

Shorter post: They are " essentially, disposable. "




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Apple, Google, Facebook lead in clean energy and policies says latest Greenpeace report

But Amazon has some work to do.




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Apple's new product launch: Introducing Apple Park

I have complained about this building forever, but will admit that Norman Foster has designed a masterpiece.




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How green is Apple? A look at their Environmental Responsibility Report

It’s not perfect, but it is pretty impressive.




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Apple makes it tougher to text and drive

A new "do not disturb while driving" feature is coming with the next OS update. Will people use it?




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Apple Park is almost complete; it is still beautiful and still wrong

It is a jewel in suburban isolation.




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Apple employees are "in revolt" over open offices. Really?

They may be giving up four walls, but they are getting a lot in return.




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Is wireless charging the most important thing announced by Apple?

Our never-ending search for convenience comes at a cost.




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Former Facebook exec says social media is "ripping apart the social fabric"

At a recent talk Chamath Palihapitiya said he "doesn't use that sh**" and his kids aren't allowed to either.




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That's not a roof on the Chicago Apple store; it is the poster child for unsustainable design

It is a giant electric radiator that they forgot to turn on due to a software failure.




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Apple needs to do more to protect children, investors say

Up until now, Apple has offered no guidelines for using its devices responsibly. Investors want this to change.




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Apple employees keep walking into those gorgeous glass walls at Apple Park

C'mon guys, look where you are going. This is an Apple product and you are clearly using it wrong.




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Apple facilities now run 100% renewable world-wide

They are pushing their suppliers to go green too.




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This could be the last drone video flyover of Apple Park

Videographer Duncan Sinfield says "it's only a matter of time until the campus becomes shut-off to drones completely."




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With a push from Apple, a "revolutionary" process removes CO2 from aluminum smelting

Even when made using hydro-electricity, aluminum production had a big carbon footprint.




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What we learned about Apple Park from the keynote intro

Like Kremlinology in the cold war, you take what you can get.




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The new Apple AirPods 2 get a big fat zero for repairability

iFixit took them apart, but they can't put them together.




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Second best job ever taking applications now

And what happened to the guy who won the six figure salary to serve as caretaker of a barrier reef island anyhow?




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How to make your cat happy

Famed for their dogged indifference, cats just want to be understood and not terrified by your seemingly innocent human behavior. These tips can help ensure a happier, and thus healthier, kitty.




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In honor of Cecil: 7 lion conservation organizations to support

Turn your anger into action by supporting lion-loving charities that are doing great things for big cats.




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Happy holidays with a technotwist

May technological wonders help our children look forward to a bright season as well