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Dhaka, Manila & Jakarta Worst Climate-Affected Asian Mega-Cities - Hits Closer to Home Than You Might Think

Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it? Well, WWF has just released a new report that ranks 11 of them




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Chinese boat crashes in protected coral reef... with thousands of illegally killed pangolins on board

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.




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'Naming and shaming' is a powerful tool in the fight against plastic waste

Companies will do anything to protect their brand – maybe even redesign packaging.




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A Christian Perspective on Organic Dairy Farming and Positive Child Labor (Video)

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether




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Should green homes have gas stoves and wood fireplaces?

One Passive House architect gives his clients what they want.




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Ontario's Doug Ford's proposed natural gas expansion is like putting 42,560 cars on the road

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.




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More Protests in Peru Against U.S.-Owned Gold Mine

The Conga mine, which is majority owned by Newmont Mining Corp, would produce gold as well as copper and silver. Protesters are concerned the mine will contaminate their water and affect a major aquifer.




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Alternative's spring collection features organic cottons made in Peru

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.




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An organic diet rapidly reduces pesticide exposure

When four American families switched to all-organic diets for a week, the results were dramatic.




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Stair of the week creates a Jenga-like office

Belgian architects build a tower in a barn. But my, it uses a lot of lumber.




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Stair of the week stores a ton of art, leads to gorgeous new garret

Syte Architects insert a mezzanine and a terrific storage stair in existing loft.




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Stair of the week is a loft bed in Singapore hotel

Sometimes you wonder what they were thinking.




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NASA mission reveals beautiful swirling gases on Jupiter (Video)

These incredible images sent back by the Juno spacecraft gives us a detailed look at Jupiter.




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1 Gigawatt Hydro-Wind Power Project Planned in Morocco Will Double Nation's Capacity

Morocco is making good on it's stated goals of increasing renewable energy development, leading towards 40% of electricity from renewables over the next decade.




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Turbine Taps Irrigation Canals for Power

A new type of hydrokinetic turbine sits within irrigation canals and could power several homes from the flow of water.




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Ontario might get a 400MW pumped storage station five times the height of Niagara Falls

While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).




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HydroBee charges your gadgets with hydropower

Just float the device in a river or stream and soon enough you'll have enough juice to charge a smartphone, GPS or other device.




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Ecotricity proposes "green gas mills" at every UK fracking site

Income for farmers, or fracked natural gas—will communities be allowed to decide?




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Despite Trump, US coal and gas generation down—renewables up

The war on coal, it seems, may be ongoing, no matter who's in charge in Washington.




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UK energy company offering 'poop gas' for heating/cooking

UK households can now buy 15 percent green gas and 100 percent green electricity with one easy tariff.




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I just switched to "green" gas from Bullfrog Power

We used to be able to justify burning a bit of fossil gas, but we cannot anymore.




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Netherlands to ban natural gas by 2050

It's part of a much bigger energy transition, and sounds a lot like wishful thinking.




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The sheer joy (and simplicity) of not buying gas

Drivers of traditional "ICE" cars often underestimate the convenience of going electric.




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Power-generating insole lets you charge your gadgets with your steps

The removable insole that's now on Kickstarter can fit into almost any kind of shoe.




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Teen inventor creates a coffee mug to power your gadgets

The same inventor who brought us the body heat-powered flashlight is at it again.




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Remembering Wangari Maathai, Monday November 14th in NYC

A public memorial ceremony will be held in NYC for Wangari Maathai on November 14.




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It’s time to treat illegal wildlife trade like a serious crime

A new report calls for international collaboration to fight the crime organizations behind the illegal trade in wood and wildlife.




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3 East African countries unite to fight illegal logging

Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are banding together to combat unlawful timber products and curb deforestation.




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Generation gap: wind opens big lead over nuclear in China

In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent.




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Wind is cheaper than coal, oil and gas, says European Union study

If your price doesn't reflect the true cost of your product, then there's no such thing as a free market.




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Let's Do The Time Warp Again: Monbiot and May vs Lomberg and Lawson

It is the battle of the M&Ms; vs the L&Ls; the Munk debate in Toronto about the statement "Climate change is mankind's defining crisis, and demands a commensurate international response" with Bjorn Lomberg and Nigel Lawson duking it out




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Do electric cars generate as much particulate pollution as gas and diesel powered cars?

No they don't. Whether or not you buy into this study, the fact remains that cars are cars are cars.




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Low-Tech Magazine switches to a low-tech, low carbon website

Blogging like it's 1999 might make sense for a lot of people.




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Go ahead and AVA Byte of fresh produce from this countertop garden

This soil-free smart garden promises fresh greens and veggies that are grown as local as it gets.




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Your new indoor garden could be a tree -- a Living Farming Tree, that is

This aeroponic indoor gardening system from the Italian startup Hexagro is modular, scalable, and automated.




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Automated hydroponic gardens help you grow fresh produce indoor year-round

Grow some of your own greens, veggies, and herbs indoors with one of these automated hydroponic growing systems.




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I.P. Freely - On The Organic Cabbages

What makes this post great for today




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Tree Ring Study Heats Up Battle of Climate Change Skeptics Against Scientists

Can't we all stop fencing for political position and start talking about using the overwhelming amount of data to solve problems?




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The John Hope Gateway is a pioneer in modern wood construction

What a joy to stumble upon this 2009 gem by Cullinan Studio.




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Glasgow School of Art burns down. Again.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh didn't do a lot of buildings, and this was his biggest and best.




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Deja vu all over again as Voltaic introduces a new generation of solar backpacks

This is where we started.




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Mobile solar-plus-storage device could be an entry-level gateway to clean energy

The SolPad Mobile device offers a scaled-up solar charging and battery solution for both home and off-grid applications.




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This solar briefcase will charge your phone, laptop, and a host of other gadgets

Another large-sized solar charger and battery system is about to hit the market, as an off-grid solar generator in a briefcase.




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Jenni is a gateway device for small-scale solar for apartment & condo dwellers

The Jenni solar charger and battery pack aims to make it easy to begin going solar at home, starting with your portable electronics




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Make your own DIY biogas digester

Clean energy is sometimes touted as space-age technology. Some of the principles, however, can be pretty darned simple.




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Hurrah for Sean Hannity! Welcome to the fight against the pod people!

It's a win-win all around as K-cup users on both sides of the political divide find reasons to smash their Keurigs.




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Islamic Cycling, Space Tourism, Norway by Bike & Ski? Wend Magazine Has It All

Wend magazine continues to bring together intriguing stories about human powered adventures from around the world. In the current issue, they inform us that in 2010 officials in Isfahan,




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Never lose that wrench again: flatpack furniture is held together with magnets

Dutch designer Benjamin Vermeulen solves the problem of the missing nut or screw.




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Greenwash Action fights back against the attacks on LEED green building certification

It's about time that someone did, too.




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Forest garden with 500 edible plants takes a few hours of work a month

Working with nature instead of against it, forest gardens promise abundance, as well as the kind of resilience a changing climate demands.