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Architect Wants to Rebuild Haiti with Recycled Tires, Needs Your Help (Photos)

Argentine architect Carlos Levinton, who we've seen help Bolivian communities with PET, was asked by the UN White Helmets Comission to collaborate with ideas for the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.




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Is Brooks Running the Best Green Source for Runners?

You a runner? Or an exercise-oholic? And you want your workouts to reflect your green lifestyle? Well, the race is ON or at least for me and a few friends to find the best performing green running equipment.




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Heating our homes kills 10,000 Americans per year

We have to decarbonize, not just because of carbon dioxide and climate change in the longer term, but because it is killing us directly right now.




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Children take U.S. government to court over climate change

The health of young people is disproportionately harmed by climate change, and the government has failed to keep them safe.




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Beautiful Handbags - From Your Cat's Fur

"Chatangora" — that's what Simpsonville, South Carolina-based business Catty Shack Creations is calling "cat hair yarn" — used to create affordable, one-of-a-kind handbags from Persian and Angora cat hair. Professional groomer Danelle




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The Electric Bicycle World Tour and What The World Looks Like from an E-Bike (video)

Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage




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Sustainable skills, sustainable resources: Nonprofit helps sex trafficking survivors

Nomi Network helps to provide training and jobs to women in India and Cambodia.




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Why you shouldn't use your washer's delicate cycle

It uses twice as much water and releases 800,000 more plastic microparticles per load than a regular cycle.




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Forget 2030 or targets; we need to reduce our carbon emissions right now

George Monbiot says you don't set targets in an emergency, you act.




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Your Ecological Footprint: Defining, Calculating, and Reducing Your Environmental Footprint

Ecological footprint: what is it? An analysis that gauges our impact on the planet's biological systems, the ecological footprint measures human consumption of natural resources in comparison to Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate them.




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Your Carbon Footprint: Calculating, Reducing and Offsetting Your Impact

In addition to metrics like ecological footprint, each of us (and each of the products and services we use and consume every day) has a carbon footprint; it's a way to measure the relative impact of our actions -- as individuals, as businesses,




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How to green your cleaning routine

Cleaning products are everywhere in our homes and offices: on dishes, countertops, furniture, clothes, floors, windows, and floating through the air. In our war on dirt and germs we may often actually be making things worse.




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10 ways to green your work ethic

A greener workplace can mean a lighter ecological footprint, a healthier and more productive place to work and good news for the bottom line.




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By 2050 We're All Likely To Be Using Fewer Resources, Whether We Like It Or Not

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.




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Peak People? Are We Actually Running Out of Our Most Valuable Resource?

Everyone is worried about population growth, but in fact it may well be going the other way.




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Population Growth Takes Just Five Hours to Fill Wrigley Field

How to slow it? Access to voluntary family planning for all women. It more than pays for itself, reducing unwanted pregnancies, abortions, unplanned births... And helps reduce humanity's environmental impact.




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Wired Magazine Tells Us "Don't Worry, Be Happy" About Climate, Population, Resources, Pandemics

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.




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OVER illustrates perils of overshoot and impacts of human overpopulation on our planet (review)

This large format photo book features hundreds of stunning images highlighting the effects that our global population of 7 billion (and growing) has on the Earth.




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For World Vasectomy Day, men encouraged to 'get whacked for wildlife'

Concerned about the overpopulation of our planet and the effect it has on wildlife? Perhaps it's time to talk about the most effective form of male contraception.




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How many books is your social media habit replacing?

The number is probably far higher than you think.




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Iceland asks tourists to drink tap water instead of bottled

After all, who wouldn't want a glass of "pure glacial water filtered through lava"?




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Learn the footprint of your meat consumption with the Omni Calculator

Some useful tools for working on a 1.5 degree lifestyle.




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This bacon-scented patch could help kick your meat habit

Wannabe vegetarians can fulfill their cravings using scent, rather than the real thing.




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Teenager invents way to videochat with your pet, give it treats

The device uses a tablet or smartphone to connect you with your pet during the day, give it treats and make sure it's not tearing up the furniture.




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Is your dog scratching because of a meat allergy?

Who would have thought our canine companions could have allergies to a carnivorous diet?




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Can a computer train your dog?

Researchers are experimenting with software and a smart harness for carrying out basic dog training.




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Train your kid like a dog

If you've trained a dog well, then you'll probably be fine when it comes to raising infants and young children.




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Egg Maps and Green Routes Create Vegetable Tourism in the Incredible Edible Town Todmorden

Todmorden is a town that embraced the local food movement by growing their own fruit and veg anywhere in public spaces. They also have an Egg Map and a Green Route for the Vegetable Tourists!




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Explore history from your couch with Google Maps Gallery

Travel back in time and explore the geography of history from the comfort of your home with the new gallery of Google Maps.




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What's your bikeshed?

If you're in the Netherlands, your bikeshed must be huge, but what qualifies as a bikeshed in your city?




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Stash this collapsible water bottle in your pocket and turn back to the tap

It's time we made water bottles part of our every day carry (EDC) kit. This handy little bottle squishes down small enough to go everywhere you do.




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Study shows that climate change is really bad for your health

Along with climate-killing CO2, there are a lot of people-killing pollutants. Perhaps we should change our message.




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Nobody is taking away your air conditioner; there are lots of alternatives to HFCs

Only in America are they hard to find. How does that happen?




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This is your contribution to melting Arctic ice

New research calculates how individual CO2 emissions affect the Arctic's shrinking summer sea ice.




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Our soaring love of meat is bad news for the planet

The average amount of meat consumed per person globally has nearly doubled in the past 50 years, a trend with terrible consequences for environment, scientists warn.




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Make your own coconut rose sugar scrub

Or, how to get glowing skin with just a few simple ingredients.




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7 natural ingredients to exfoliate your skin

As plastic microbead bans take effect, you'll need to find alternative ways to give your skin a good scrubbing.




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Build your own bike at the Bamboo Bicycle Club

It's a miracle of sorts, transforming a pile of sticks into a traveling machine.




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10 ways to reject capitalism in your personal life

Take subversive action in small ways.




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How our thinking changed in 2019: recycling and plastics

We are now prisoners of the petrochemical industry.




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Is plastic a 'necessary evil' in our food system?

Perhaps yes, if our food system stays the way it is, but maybe that's what we should be challenging.




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Is your tea steeped in plastic?

A new study shows that all-plastic tea bags release billions of particles into hot water.




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How to grocery shop when you can't bring your own containers

Learning which plastics are most harmful to health is one thing you can do.




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Buy Your Own (Official) Hobbit Hole

A small family business is selling replicas/interpretations of the homes made famous by J.R.R. Tolkien.




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5 ways to get enough fiber in your diet

Most of us aren't getting enough fiber, and that's a problem. Here's how to get more.




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People with these conditions should sleep at least 6 hours a night

New research finds that normal sleep may be protective against early death for people with certain health risks.




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To clean our air we have to stop pollution at the source

Filters on buses and smog-eating towers are not the answer.




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Where our kitchens came from and where they are going

How do you design a green, sustainable and healthy kitchen?




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Should your kitchen have a recirculating or a direct-exhaust hood? I am exhausted just thinking about it

It is a real problem when designing energy efficient homes, and it seems that there is no good solution except ordering in.




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Hang your hobs on the wall when you aren't cooking with them

Adriano Studio shows the future of induction cooking with Ordine