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Wild City Mapping: Interactive online sharing of wild urban spaces (Video)

This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.




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How Corn Is Expanding Our Waistlines And Crippling Our Health System

Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore's Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights, "the magazine for clean capitalism", Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes




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Ask Pablo: Should I Get A New Washing Machine?

Of course the balance between environmental impact and personal




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Lighting facts: Did you know that 70% of lightbulbs in the U.S. are still inefficient models?

If every home in the U.S. switched just one inefficient light for an Energy Star one, that would be equivalent to taking 800,000 vehicles off the road in term of greenhouse gas emissions




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Clever technical breakthrough could make LEDs as inexpensive as incandescents

It was only a few years ago that I was testing LED bulbs that cost $100 each...




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Local Businesses, Government Officials and Environmental Agencies Unite to Protect Maryland Wetlands

The state of Maryland has already shown a proclivity towards environmental programs—it has embraced wind power via positive legislation, for one. Now, it's going to clean up its wetlands. The Maryland chapter of the




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Recirculating Marine Aquaculture: Farmed Fish Minus the Pollution

Image credit: UMBI Center of Marine Biotechnology Fully Contained, Indoor Fish Farming Update: Karin has reported on this initiative before under Fish Farming Moves to the Condos, and Lloyd also covered it under the Future of Food. Great to see it still




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Two Men Fined After Rescuing Deer From Icy River

To many people, Jim Hart and Khalil Abusakran are heroes. When the two men from Maryland saw a deer stranded in the icy waters of the Patapsco River, they did what few others would dare. With an




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New hotel in Singapore "combines sustainability with delight."

A tropical skyscraper by WOHA and Patricia Urquiola is wrapped in a vine-covered sunscreen.




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Business park plans 15 MW, unsubsidized solar farm

As subsidy-free renewables proliferate, it will become harder to derail decarbonization.




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Spain closes coal mines. Mining unions celebrate.

It turns out that helping mining regions move on is just good politics.




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Support Small Business Saturday, and Shop Small everyday

Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.




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Terroir matters as much for wood as it does for wine

A new organic winery for Pizzolato, designed by MADE, is built almost entirely out of local, sustainably harvested wood.




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Jargon watch - "cocktail geoengineering" takes fixing the earth to the next level

If one geoengineering plan doesn't work, maybe two or three combined will




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Sentinel-5P puts eyes in the sky to monitor progress in reducing atmospheric pollution

The successful launch of Sentinel-5P means scientists will soon have access to the most accurate monitoring yet of pollution and climate change related gases in earth's atmosphere




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Conservation Canines Trained To Sniff Out Tigers in Cambodia

For the first time, conservationists from WWF are putting dogs' superb sense of smell on the trail of tigers in Cambodia. Coming from the University of Washington Conservation Canines program, the dogs are trained to sniff out




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Purple Buddha: Cambodia's hidden mines upcycled into jewelry (Video)

Metals from Cambodia's mines, left buried since its civil war, are recycled into elegant jewelry, made by locally trained and fairly paid artisans.




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RIBA guide outlines radical plan for a sustainable future

"This is our last chance to avert a climate disaster. We must act now."




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German Engineers Join Hybrid Game

Anticipation hangs palpably ahead of the Frankfurt International Motor Show: what will German engineers bring to the green table? After bucking the trend for several years in favor of the already well-established "clean diesel" technology, German car




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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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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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Oregon 'solar apiary' combines energy production with honey

Pollinator power, y'all.




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Vestas unveils gigantic 10 MW wind turbine

This is green energy writ large. Very large...




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The power of 'puppy dog eyes' explained

The gaze between human and dog can share physiological properties similar to that of mother and infant, a new study finds.




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After sightings, the search is on for extinct thylacine

The last of these dog-like animals, also known as Tasmanian tigers, was thought to have died in 1936. But might they still be lurking elusively in the wild?




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Solar wagon delivers a self-contained portable water purification system

One solution for purifying water in remote off-grid areas comes in the form of a wagon, complete with solar panel and water purification system.




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Wine has barely changed since Roman times, and that's a problem

Lack of diversity makes grapes vulnerable to climate change.




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14 pink animals to celebrate St. Valentine

Consider these blushing beauties a love letter from Mother Nature.




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The "Stopping EPA Overreach Act" redefines what a pollutant is and stops regulation of greenhouse gases

This is beyond climate denial, it's science denial




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U.S. Asian Carp Czar Says Poison, Genetic Engineering Among Solutions

The Obama administration loves its czars almost as much as the media loves using the title. So here goes: The U.S. Asian Carp Czar, also known as John Goss, says he has a multi-pronged strategy to help keep Asian carp from




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Michigan bans bans on plastic bags, takeout food containers, styrofoam cups and just about anything else

Restaurants win; Great Lakes lose.




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Streamlined bamboo DIY kits make converting a van a breeze

These high-end kits make converting a van into a home-on-wheels an easier proposition.




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Vancouver says no more foam food containers

A ban will take place in the new year, followed by crackdowns on straws and grocery bags.




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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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Maine Legislates 30% Reduction in Oil Use by 2030

Maine's taking a stand against oil usage and oil dependency--frankly the bigger issue than where we get our oil from, tar sands and other unconventional oil sources aside. As NRDC Switchboard reports, the state has passed a law




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First Commercial Tidal Power Project in US Launches in Maine

Though only powering 75-100 homes at launch, the TidGen Cobscook Bay project, in Eastport, Maine, is slated to expand to ten times its initial size.




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Residents Band Together to Protect Maine’s Woods from Development

Picture having a massive, beautiful expanse of woods near your home. You go there to hike, fish, hunt -- just to enjoy nature. Now picture a highway running through it.




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BrightBuilt Home introduces line of healthy, net-zero modular designs

A mix of modern and traditional design elements that are appropriate for the Northeast make these very interesting houses.




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Maine conference brings together the "most experienced passive house minds on the planet"

It's the first conference of the North American Passive House Network and it sounds like it was a lot of fun.




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Maine legislators move to speed up GMO labeling law

Some legislators in Maine want the state's food to be labeled sooner.




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Drones join search and rescue operations in Maine

The flying robots will start helping officials to locate lost hikers.




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Towns in Maine declare food sovereignty with local ordinances

In an effort to support local food production and defend customers' rights to buy and eat whatever local farm products they want, 16 towns in Maine have created their own local food ordinances.




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Maine student rejects scholarship from bottled water company

Despite needing to pay a hefty tuition bill this fall, Hannah Rousey refused to take money from Poland Spring Bottling Co., a subsidiary of Nestlé.




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Good luck finding Maine's Katahdin Woods and Waters; The governor has banned signs and directions.

It's another national monument established by Obama and threatened by Trump.




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Climate change protestors ask fashion industry to "stop business as usual"

London Fashion Week was disrupted by protesters who want the industry to declare a climate emergency.




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New California law helps diners to bring their own containers

It's still up to a restaurant to decide to fill them, but the law provides detailed guidelines on how to do it safely.




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Ecotricity's 'Global Cooling Machines': Stunning Video

We like Ecotricity, the UK-based green energy company that is busy planning and erecting urban wind turbines across the country. We’ve written about their partnership with Popeye, we’ve brought news of their collaborations with Lotus and Ben and




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Headline of the week: Suburbs will thrive forever

Forever is a very long time.




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Link Between BPA and Heart Disease Seen in Urine, New Study Reports

A new study finds those with heart disease had higher concentrations of BPA in their urine.




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Popeye the Sailor Man after a life of eating from BPA lined cans

Cartoonist Joe Mohr shows how the chemical might have affected the cartoon hero