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Art prints illustrate Europe's great cities

Russian artist, Xenia Bystrova has created a charming series of posters of some of Europe's great cities.




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Film your love life on a bike. No, seriously. And win prizes

Submit your witty, artful, or entertaining short film for the 2014 VELOBerlin Film Award.




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Efficient City Farming wins top award at the "Academy Awards of Cleantech"

Taking the category and best in show prizes will help Efficient City Farming get the funding to grow!




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Ruby Cup: "Buy one, give one" menstrual cup on a social mission to help African schoolgirls (Video)

Did your fear of stains stop you from going to school or work? Probably not. But this company is aiming to bring menstrual cups to African schoolgirls who miss school because they have their period and cannot afford disposables.




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Film awards stir controversy with angry bike anthem

The public has cast their votes, and if the winner is any indication, there are some angry bikers tired of fighting the battle for clean transportation.




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Cohousing: The real sharing economy at its best, and a great example in Berlin

This is a housing form that we should be building a lot more of.




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Find your favorite bicycle-themed film short

As its reputation grows, the VeloBerlin film awards attract more talent




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You can see Tesla's shop on the KuDamm, but not the cars: where is Germany's incentive program?

Tesla's new boutique shop on Berlin's famous KuDamm beckons, but where is Germany's national strategy for electric cars?




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Could real-time water monitoring have helped in Flint, Michigan?

It can take hours before test results clue authorities about hazards in water supplies. The AquaBioTox uses biological sensors for immediate feedback.




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Teledisko: Defunct payphone booths repurposed as mini-discos

You thought disco was dead? Not with these old payphone booths, now transformed into ultra-exclusive, tiny dance clubs, complete with the disco ball.




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Guerilla Architects build mobile office in a trailer

And they figure out where to put it, because "future architecture means city-hacking."




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Whoever drives in Berlin has too much time

In which a brash-talking politician takes on the lobbyists - and everybody wins (hint: the "lobbyists" aren't who you think!)




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Gardens make "bad hombres" into good neighbors

All this talk of "bad hombres" got you down? Here's an antidote.




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Solar powered scooter engineer needs a hundred monkeys

If you dream of testing the limits of solar powered mobility, but don't have the DIY gene, here is someone who can help




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New option to retrofit your bike into an e-pedelec, and more at VELO Berlin

Innovation and local products featured prominently at the bike show




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Electric scooter share doesn't even require charging stations

Just pick a scooter, drive it, then park it. Someone else takes care of the charging.




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Biking and walking in Berlin is a breath of fresh air (metaphorically, not literally)

It is a strange and wonderful experience where you don't know what's around the corner.




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Grain silo converted into solar-powered home for father & daughter (Video)

Made out of an old grain silo, this renovated micro-home is bursting with delightful creativity.




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Berlin public transport system sponsors shoe with an annual transport pass

An advertising gimmick that gives a whole new meaning to the words "training shoes."




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After 4 killed in crash, Berliners call for ban on SUVs

Mayor says "Such tank-like SUVs do not belong in the city"




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Coal Ash Spill in Lake Michigan Occurs Within Days of New EPA Data on Hazardous Coal Ash Ponds

Researchers concluded that the spill probably doesn't pose a significant environmental risk, but the ash contained heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury.




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Obama Administration Just As Bad On Environment As Bush, Says New Report

"Tucked in a corner of the Old Executive Office Building, an obscure group of some three dozen economists exerts extraordinary power over federal rules intended to protect public health, worker and consumer safety, and the environment."




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3 Years After Tennessee Coal Ash Spill, Other TVA Ponds Just As Unstable

“The dangerous conditions behind the Kingston disaster were not isolated."




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The Week in Pictures: "Roadkill Couture," Egg Nog Pancakes, and More

High Fashion from roadkill? We also have an art installation that sent Estonians into the trees, egg nog pancakes, the year in gingerbread design, and more.




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Wisconsin Town Legally Prevented From Tightening Coal Ash Regulations

A town is prevented from creating regulations stricter than the state's rules, despite residents' concerns about groundwater contamination.




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North Carolina Finds Excess Toxic Metals In Water Near Coal Plants

State regulators have found boron, arsenic, selenium and other toxic metals near 14 power plants, all in excess of state health standards.




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Coal Ash Activists Acquitted in Filipino Court

Filipino activists had been charged with trespassing in December 2009 to document toxic coal ash.




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Greenpeace Protests Coal & Mountaintop Removal Atop 400 Ft Power Plant

The green activist group's stunt seeks to draw attention to the devastation wrought by coal.




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Environmental Groups Sue the EPA Over Delay on Coal Ash Regulations

The EPA pledged new regulations after the TVA coal ash spill, but has been sitting on two proposals for two years now, and the problems that led to TVA are still rampant nationwide.




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Nothing Says We Are All Doomed Like This Coal Plant Snow Globe

If you are sick and tired of being optimistic, I have the perfect thing for you, a No Globe snow globe. The tchotchke is a one of a kind--kinda. Only two were made and only one is left to purchase, so act quickly.




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Things of Intrinsic Worth shows how coal power damages Montana's ranching lifestyle

Things of Intrinsic Worth is a feature-length documentary which focuses on the ways coal mining is harming the livelihoods of Montana ranchers.




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Activists Raise Awareness of Toxic Coal Pollution in Our Waterways

New report shows shocking amounts of coal pollution in U.S. waterways.




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Five years after tragic Tennessee disaster, still no coal ash safeguards

The coal industry continues to fight for profits over people, even though coal ash is extremely toxic.




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Oil, coal and gas disasters that are costing us all

Accidents happen. But when they involve toxic chemicals and combustible substances, those accidents can cost a fortune.




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Don Blankenship charged with conspiracy over mine explosion that killed 29

A roundup of our Blankenship coverage over the years, and what led up to this tragedy and this indictment.




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Grassroots anti-coal movements to watch

A new report details some of the world's major on-going grassroots fights against coal.




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The realities of living near coal ash

In advance of EPA's coal ash standards, a mother of four talks about her family's health problems due to nearby coal ash ponds.




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Don Blankenship gets a year in jail for conspiracy over mine explosion that killed 29

But this is probably not the last we will hear from him.




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The EPA just made toxic coal ash more dangerous

A giant wave of pollution glop in 2008 convinced the EPA to regulate coal dumps more closely. But the Trump administration is changing that.




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The smartphone that just got smarter – by testing water and treating food

A 24-year-old food scientist at the University of Copenhagen has developed a prototype that could potentially save millions of lives.




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Danish design students create sustainable waste bins to solve public trash problems

The award-winning DropBucket is a recycled cardboard trash can that can be reused and/or recycled.




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Trash talking: Cities finding smarter ways to collect our waste

How urban waste management is wising up.




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Plantable pencils sprout into flowers, vegetables and trees

Done with that pencil? Sink it in the soil for a second life.




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A petal-powered bike project in Denmark’s second city

Green-fingered volunteers in the Danish city of Aarhus have given abandoned bicycles a new lease of life – by turning them into tiny urban gardens.




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The Kissing Bridge in Copenhagen stops being the Missing Bridge, finally opens

It's been a long time coming. Was it worth the wait?




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Elate Cosmetics now offers 'Perfectly Imperfect' packaging

The bamboo palettes and compacts have minor flaws that, in a way, make them even more special.




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My 10 favorite green products from 2019

These are the items I'd buy again because they're well made and make our world a better, cleaner place.




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Now your hair ties and scrunchies can be fair-trade, plastic-free

These handy accessories tick all the boxes for ethics and eco-friendliness.




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The remarkable history and healing power of honey

How did honey go from being the world's most important food to an undervalued afterthought?




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This is what life without bees would look like

One in three bites of food depends on pollinators; these images show how bleak our plates would be without our partners in pollination.