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Most Huggable: Football Mangroves in Florida, Bristol's Renewable Street Lights, Frank Capra's "Truth"

To carbon neutralize the Super Bowl, the NFL plants mangroves in Florida




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Local Currency Goes City-Wide and High-tech

The Bristol Pound is not your average local currency scheme. A new video sets out the vision for this ambitious, city-wide scheme.




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7 Short and Senseless Flights We'd Love to Ban

Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane. Not only do you




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FDA Punts On Banning Bisphenol A; NRDC is Outraged, But I Think They Got It Right

It is one thing to ban something, it is another thing to have something to replace it with at hand. We don't.




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'BPA-free' plastics often uses Bisphenol-S ... which might be just as bad

From one problem to the next...




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Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms

Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region




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Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass

Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native




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Planting Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Fight Dangerous Dust Storms in Seoul

Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.




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Why is Canada fighting over a gas pipeline to nowhere?

The world is awash in LNG that's a lot closer to the ocean and a lot cheaper to move.




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Two dead because trucks don't have side guards and cyclists apparently can't stay upright

In Brooklyn and Toronto, the same story: "accidents" where cyclists somehow lose control, fall under rear wheels.




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Wood House Sits Lightly On Landscape

One can build a house out of wood and cover it up, or one can celebrate the nature of wood, as this one in Slavonice, Czech Republic does. Designed by E - M.R.A.K. | Martin Rajniš, Kamila Amblerová, Václav Horecký, it is built out of unplaned, uncut




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Radical Product Transparency Via Carbon Mapping- Highlight from Opportunity Green

This past Thursday, at the business conference Opportunity Green, one panel entitled Next Generation Carbon Mapping: Radical Transparency and Truth in Advertising captured the attention of the standing room only audience at




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Improved Cooking Technique Slashes Coal Use. Is Funded Through Carbon Offsets (Video)

Carbon offsets have traditionally gone to technological improvements or reforestation. One group is teaching a different way of cooking. And it's using offset funds for the training.




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Solavore Sport solar oven offers zero-carbon cooking in a lightweight package (review)

Simmer like a crock pot and bake like an oven, using the clean energy of sunlight.




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Is outdoor play a child's want or right?

A debate between a child and teacher reveals all that's wrong with our education system today.




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Annual photo contest reveals dangers of ghost nets

Distressing photos received by the Ocean Conservancy show just how helpless marine animals are in the face of drifting nets.




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This app is just what you need to fight food waste

Businesses can list surplus food and customers buy it at a discount.




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Beautifully simple corrugated plywood furniture is lightweight, strong & user-friendly (Video)

Made with a patented energy- and wood-saving technique, this Corelam collection is perfect for those who move a lot.




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Split design on sit-stand adjustable height desk lets you do both (Video)

This modern work desk lets more than one person sit and stand -- at the same time.




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German politicians propose much higher meat tax

If the goal is to reduce meat consumption, then why not make it more expensive?




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The Week in Pictures: Rot-Proof Apple, Surprises at GreenBuild, Bacteria Lights Up Landmines, and More

From the news that scientists have created a bacteria that lights up around landmines to the development of a rot-proof apple--that stays fresh for 4 months--a lot happened this week in green. A new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and




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Art Photo of the Day: Jessica Rath Uses Sculpture to Highlight Hybrid and Endangered Apples

Artist Jessica Rath uses sculpture and photography to highlight the problem with new hybrid apples and endangered varieties.




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The judges get it right with the 2019 Evolo Skyscraper Competition

Lots of great ideas for green building in this year's crop.




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Fancy food guide adds sustainability symbol to highlight green restaurants

Considered to be the highest award a restaurant can receive, the Michelin Guide's 2020 French edition now gives a nod to environmentally minded restaurants.




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Coworking-inspired school gets kids to learn through interactive play

Created by BIG and WeWork, this open-plan school in NYC offers another model for education.




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Illegal Amazon Gold: Fight to Protect the Amazon Unites Celebrity Artists, War Journalists, and You

"How are we going to protect it if we don't understand what's at stake?"




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Beautiful new see-through frog puts whole heart on display

The new-to-science Amazonian glassfrog has skin so transparent that its tiny heart can be seen beating in its chest.




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The Weight of the Evidence: How We Know the Planet is Warming

In this excerpt from the latest book by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the authors explain why we're standing at a climate crossroads&dmash;and how serious the next decision really is.




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On MNN: Boomer posts I thought were OK

On our sister site I write about issues affecting the baby boomer generation. Here are some of my favorites from the year.




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Tick tock tick tock: Doomsday Clock nears midnight

It is now 100 seconds to midnight, closer to midnight than at any point since the clock's creation in 1947.




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The President of Iceland is right: Ban pineapple pizza.

This is a silly post, about a silly bit of news, but is a reminder that we really should think about what we eat.




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This is what it looks like when 35,000 walrus can’t find enough sea ice

Tens of thousands of walrus haul out on Alaska’s shore.




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Mesmerizing short film follows photographer through the Arctic, wolves and polar bears ensue (video)

Take a breathtaking 9-minute journey with wildlife photographer Vincent Munier through the beautifully bleak frozen North, you won’t be sorry.




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Maersk to send first container ship through the Northeast Passage

They call it a "one-off" but it is the shape of things to come.




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See what polar bears are up to right now

There's a new polar bear live cam in town ...




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Blue light rots the brains of fruit flies

Is it doing the same for people?




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Jake Dyson introduces lamp that adjusts for the daylight where you live

The LightCycle follows our circadian rhythms via your phone and GPS.




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How much does your car weigh?

The late artist Chris Burden balanced a Porsche 914 with a meteorite.




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Phenomenal murals highlight extraordinary lives of humble pigeons

Pigeons live large in these big artworks that celebrate the remarkable qualities of these overlooked birds.




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Women With High PBDE Levels 50 Percent Slower to Conceive, New Study Says

Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section.




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Water gets weirder as new properties come to light

This ubiquitous liquid, water, continues to amaze us with its just plain weirdness




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Lake Erie now has its own Bill of Rights

A triumphant win for Toledo residents means that the Great Lake's wellbeing is now an official top priority.




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Lake Erie's new Bill of Rights has angered Ohio farmers

But others consider it a good opportunity to reevaluate agricultural practices.




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Gas prices are going up. What will this do to light truck sales?

The only things that ever seems to affect SUV and pickup sales are the economy and the price of gas.




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Train Accident in Buenos Aires Leaves 51 Dead and 703 Injured, Sheds Light on State of Public Transport

A train that reportedly left a workshop yesterday failed to brake when entering a major station and crashed against the end-of-the-line barrier




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Irregular Neon Fence Lights Up Parking Lot in Buenos Aires, Changes Fencing Perception

Parking lots will never be green, period. But design can make them less of an eye sore. And who knew a fence could look cool?




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Duetta: Shared two-person bike weighs and costs less than a tandem (Video)

Designed for safety and comfort, this sharing bike looks similar to a standard bike, allowing friends to easily hop on and off.




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Mystery killer behind tragic right whale deaths likely identified

Deaths of the endangered whales, mostly young calves, leapt 10-fold from 2005 to 2014. No one knew why until possibly now.




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Meet 'Steve,' a new kind of northern lights discovered by aurora chasers (Video)

This green and purple mystery finally gets its own name and some attention from aurora enthusiasts and researchers alike.




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Johnson & Johnson's half-hearted switch from plastic to paper cotton buds isn't good enough

It's only happening in half the world. The rest of us can keep using plastic sticks. (Don't they know about ocean currents?)