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Power plants = fish choppers

Lend your voice to calls for power plants to upgrade their water systems to prevent millions of fish from being chopped to bits.




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Amsterdam's most beneficent tourist activity is fishing for plastic

Plucking litter from canals while sightseeing is one of the more singular ways to spend a couple hours in the Dutch city.




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Atlanta, Seattle named first winners in American Cities Climate Challenge

The two cities will receive substantial financial and technical assistance from Bloomberg Philanthropies to help combat combat climate change.



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Why was a creepy nursery rhyme playing on repeat in this English town?

The town of Ipswich has been haunted by a nursery rhyme playing over a loudspeaker for more than a year.



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Woodland hawks lured to the big city by cornucopia of backyard birds

Woodland hawks, attracted by the songbirds that love backyard feeders, are thriving in cities.




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More than 95% of the world's population is breathing unsafe air

A new report from the Health Effects Institute says are breathing air that's considered unsafe by the World Health Organization.




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Tulsa kicks off 2019 with a world-class new park

Spread across nearly 70 action-packed acres, Tulsa's newest public green space champions sustainability, accessibility and inclusion.



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'Green inequity' plagues U.S. cities, study finds

New research shows that urban green space largely benefits the wealthy and educated, not the underserved communities that need it most.




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Chicago lawmakers make the case for bird-friendly buildings

Located on the Mississippi Flyway, Chicago is one of the deadliest American cities for migrating birds. But the Windy City is trying to change that statistic.




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How making lower Manhattan larger will protect it from future flooding

Mayor Bill de Blasio's $10B climate resiliency plan would extend the Manhattan shoreline by as much as 500 feet into the East River.



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Watch: Plans for a LEED Platinum orphanage

Project Haiti Orphanage and Children's Center will provide a safe and healthy home for Haitian children.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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The Loop Isla Vista brings green to UCSB student ghetto

In Isla Vista, Calif., an easy-going but architectural outdated beachside college community where the median age is just 21, a new LEED certified student housin



  • Remodeling & Design

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Tour Atlantic Canada's first LEED Silver certified home

The Salmon Cove home was built with the environment in mind.



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Perkins+Will's Atlanta office earns 95 LEED-NC points

The office is the highest scoring LEED-NC version 2009 project in the Northern Hemisphere.



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Green Classroom Professional Certificate now available

The new certificate is offered by the U.S. Green Building Council's Center for Green Schools.



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Clif Bar headquarters earns LEED Platinum

The company's Emeryville, California headquarters earns top green building honors.




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Tour a LEED Platinum certified denim factory

Tour a LEED Platinum certified denim factory. The VDS Group factory in Bangladesh received LEED Platinum certification.



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Barnes Foundation earns LEED Platinum

The building is the first major art and education facility to earn Platinum level LEED certification.




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Method Homes really packs in the green with latest prefab series

Attractive but not arresting in appearance, the Paradigm series of green prefabs from Seattle's Method Homes has the potential to achieve recognition from the w



  • Remodeling & Design

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Atlanta Hawks purchase green energy for arena

The Hawks and Philips Arena have purchased enough clean energy to power the facility for the 2012-2013 basketball season.



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Prefab brings modern day sustainability to historic planned community

In observation of one of the original New Urbanist-style planned communities' 75th anniversary, Norris, Tenn. gets a self-sufficient prefab demo home.



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Hayden Place: A dreamy green workplace

If I had to work in an office, Cuningham Group Architecture's Hayden Place would be my dream green workplace.




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BIG-designed tower aims to liven up white collar downtown Calgary

Calgary will be getting yet another show-stopping skyscraper, this one a LEED Platinum-exceeding mixed-use development designed by Bjarke Ingels Group.



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Languishing landmark YMCA reborn as green housing in South L.A.

Paul Williams' landmark 28th Street YMCA in South L.A. emerges from a LEED Gold restoration project, historically significant identity still intact.



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Supportive housing community in Portland recognized on AIA Top Green list

Holst Architecture's Bud Clark Commons project joins an eclectic assortment of notable green buildings on the 2014 AIA COTE annual top 10 list.




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Ambient earth noise aids scientists in probing planet's interior

The Earth's globally-perceptible seismic 'hum' is now being used to peer into its depths, shedding new light on the planet's inner layers.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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If your apple tastes mealier, you can blame climate change

Japanese scientists have discovered that some apples have changed in flavor and firmness over the past few decades. Science says climate change may be to blame.




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Ancient volcanic landslide triggered 800-foot 'monster' wave

Researchers say the giant tsunami occured in the Cape Verde Islands 73,000 years ago.



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Mysterious 'earthquake lights' captured over New Zealand

Unexplained natural phenomena, which is regularly observed in the aftermath of quakes, occurred during last week's 7.8 magnitude earthquake.



  • Climate & Weather

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Plants 'gossip' about aboveground goings-on

Plants have a specialized form of communication to compensate for their inability to move, a PLOS One study finds.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Invasive plant that can cause blindness pops up in Virginia for first time

Touching a giant hogweed can cause burns and even blindness.



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Plants and animals don't care for AC/DC

Urban noise — and AC/DC — may be wreaking havoc on ecosystems.



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Underwater drone spies 'incredible' shark nursery off the coast of Ireland

A drone has found a vast catshark nursery on the seafloor west of Ireland, say scientists with the SeaRover survey.




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Why NASA is studying an island that didn't exist until 4 years ago

The extremely rare South Pacific island is one of three new islands to form in the last 150 years.



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Scientists create a new type of plastic that can be recycled forever

New plastic PDK can be broken down at a molecular level and come back just as strong to be reused again and again.



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A new material that's part plastic and part rock is forming on this Portuguese island

​Nearly 10 percent of rocky surfaces on the island paradise of Madeira are covered in 'plasticrust.'



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Last Call: 12/30

The oil bubble bursts as Brazil and Hawaii say "yes we cane" to ethanol. Also: saving elephants by buying ivory, saving trees by using paper, and saving endange



  • Green News Roundup

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Miranda Kerr to host yoga class for Earth Hour

Supermodel once again named Global Earth Hour Ambassador in preparation for the lights-out moment on March 31.



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Internet Explorer launches the virtual Carbon Grove

Get daily reminders about your carbon footprint and IE will plant a tree of your choice.




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Can 1 miracle plant solve the world's 3 greatest problems?

Kenaf, the carbon-sequestering monster plant, provides food, shelter and carbon credits.



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8 of the best carbon calculators

MNN rounds up some of the Web's most useful tools for shrinking your footprint.



  • Climate & Weather

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Carbon offsets don't ease airplane emissions

Travel company cancels offset program citing its inability to reduce global emissions.




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Government research lab brings jobs to Coal Country

More than 1,000 workers will study the environmental effects of energy production.




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Pearl Jam offsets 2009 tour with tree-planting initiative

MNN chats with guitarist Stone Gossard about the band's latest project and why the group is passionate about making a difference for the environment.



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Play the Carbon Lottery

Buy a ticket for your chance to winning millions while fighting climate change.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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New carbon offset project launches

COTAP will focus its carbon offsetting projects in impoverished countries.



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Climate change's kryptonite: The green rock that could help save our planet

Olivine is a miracle green rock that absorbs carbon dioxide naturally from the air.



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How can I save gas while playing taxi driver to my kids?

Morieka Johnson can help you maximize those trips to school, tae kwon do, gymnastics, soccer ...




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A low-car diet gets popular

Many city dwellers are opting to give up driving their own cars for a month to take Zipcar's Low-Car Diet challenge. Could you go car-lite for 30 days?




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Rent a Tesla for $25 an hour

If you're a San Francisco resident, 30+ years old, and have a clean driving record, you can rent a Tesla for $25 an hour through Getaround.