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Ecollywood: Arianna Huffington and Nancy O'Dell

Video: Get green tips from Arianna Huffington and Nancy O'Dell.



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EcoSense for Living: Smarter grocery choices

Learn the keys to making smarter choices at the grocery store.




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EcoSense for Living: Home energy audit

Learn how a home energy audit can save big money in monthly energy bills




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EcoSense for Living: Save money on home energy costs

Clark Howard tells Jennie Garlington about one of his favorite energy-saving devices




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EcoSense for Living: Weather stripping and light bulbs

Clark Howard offers more money saving tips on weather stripping and light bulbs.




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Ecollywood: Look who's talking about MNN

Video: From Jeff Goldblum to Tricia Helfer to Arianna Huffington — see who is talking about the Mother Nature Network.



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In the Green Room: Building a sustainable community

Chuck visits a unique community with an organic farm, three restaurants, thousands of acres of green space and EarthCraft homes.



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In the Green Room: New community preserves green space

Learn how a community was built with pedestrians in mind.



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Ecollywood: Niecy Nash and Peter Fonda

Video: Niecy Nash and Peter Fonda share what? Their smart eco-tips.



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Ecollywood: Tia Carrere and Wilmer Valderrama

Video: Get eco-tips from Tia and Wilmer. Get eco-tips from Tia Carrere and Wilmer Valderrama. (Video by Gerri Miller)



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Ecollywood: Greg Grunberg & Wendy Davis

Video: Greg Grunberg & Wendy Davis offer their eco-tips.



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Green Dog of the Year Contest: Meet the dogs of MNN

NN and Eukanuba are looking for the Green Dog of the Year. Enter your dog for a chance to win a year's supply of Eukanuba Naturally Wild Formula




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8 cool no-carve pumpkins you can use every year

These creative Halloween ideas don't require carving and can be used over and over again.




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10 Halloween costumes made of cardboard

Whip up some cool Halloween costume ideas, starting with simple cardboard.




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How to make easy coasters with an animal theme

These coasters are a cinch to customize for the animal-lovers in your life.




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Make these Christmas decorations with a little help from science

Geometric crystal ornaments bring on the color, and they're easy to make too.




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10 cool things made from cardboard

Who know you could build a functional car or virtual reality goggles from cardboard?



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An eco-friendlier digital TV conversion

Keep your old TV and get an EnergyStar DTA converter if you want to take the environmentally friendly route.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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No green building codes for Wyoming

Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal feels that his state doesn’t need green building codes.




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Cool roofs: Basking in reflected glory

The U.S. Energy Department wants you to save green by painting your roof white -- as long as it doesn't make your neighbors see red.



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DOE funding for an eco-friendly accessible car

The U.S. Department of Energy is providing a $50 million loan to Vehicle Production Group for the creation of an eco-friendly accessible car.




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Behind the wheel at the EcoCAR college engineer competition

Sixteen teams from colleges across the country spent three years building hybrids, plug-in hybrids and even hydrogen cars. This week in Washington, they met in




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DOE launches Apps for Energy competition

App developers can enter to win up to $30,000.




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Watch: Energy efficiency at Luther College

The College's partnership with Decorah, Iowa is featured in this DOE video.



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Coca-Cola, Dell and others join Workplace Charging Challenge

Some of the nation's most recognized brands are joining the Department of Energy's Workplace Charging Challenge.




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Tiny vignettes of garden beauty come to life in these macro photos

The International Garden Photographer of the Year honors 16 photographers for their macro images of plants and animals.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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10 remarkable caterpillars and what they become

Ever wondered what different types of caterpillars look like before they transform into butterflies? Here are 10 instagram-worthy before-and-after photos



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When this smelly corpse flower bloomed, did it make gardening history?

A hybrid that would be cold-hardy and suitable for outdoor planting may be available for home landscapes in a few years.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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How the Painted Turtle gives sick kids a complete summer camp experience

Newman’s Own gives all of its profits to charity, like the one that helps Kadin Hoven and his family escape the difficulties of chronic illness.



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North Dakota woman donates 3,727 pounds of vegetables from community garden

Gardener Donna Stumphf wanted to grow a few vegetables for the needy and ended up with more than 1.5 tons.



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Could Mickey Mouse give you the flu?

Vacationers are becoming wary of theme parks as the swine flu outbreak worsens.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Contamination transformation

Contaminated sites being used to house wind farms, solar arrays and geothermal power plants.




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IKEA's contamination woes continue with pork-tainted moose lasagna

Moose lasagna, a hot seller at European stores operated by the world-dominating purveyor of flat-pack furnishings, is found to contain trace amounts of pork.




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Which has more germs: Doctors' hands, or their stethoscopes?

A new study suggests there should be official rules on how often doctors clean these essential tools.




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8 shipwrecks that could sink the environment

Dozens of sunken ships off U.S. coasts, such as the Jacob Luckenbach and USS Arizona, are leaking oil or could in the future.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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8 clever ways to decorate with tools

Reusing old household items can give your home a fun, rustic dimension.




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'Deposit shelf'-equipped trash bins lend helping hand to Copenhagen's bottle collectors

Millions of bottle deposits go unclaimed in the exceptionally tidy Danish capital each year.




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In Seattle, curbside composting takes a turn for the litigious

Hey nosey garbage man, you got a warrant?




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Styrofoam containers squeak back into NYC's waste stream

A fleeting ban on the ubiquitous landfill-clogger is overturned by a Manhattan judge.




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Scotland is winning the plastic shopping bag war

Meanwhile in England, shopping basket theft is on the rise.




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Pizza boxes get new life on this college campus

North Carolina State University's new pizza box composting project raises the bar for college recycling programs.




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Bacteria that devours plastic discovered near Japanese recycling facility

Japanese scientists have found a special bacteria, Ideonella sakainesis, that likes to eat polyethylene terephthalate, better known as PET.




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Bonnaroo's food recovery program hits all the right notes

Bonnaroo's food waste program gets food to those who need it most and composts the rest.




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8 cooking liquids you shouldn't toss

Kitchen 'waste' liquids like pickle juice and potato water can be reused to enhance culinary creations and a whole lot more.




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12 things you should never compost

Though composting is great for your garden, there are some man-made and natural items that can ruin the whole pile.




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Why the world should look to Norway when it comes to plastic bottle recycling

The deposit-based Norwegian approach to plastic bottle recycling is an attractive, effective one.




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Starbucks proves you can recycle coffee cups

Starbucks just recycled 25 million unused Starbucks cups, and that's good news. But don't ditch your reusable travel mug just yet.




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Why confusion may be good for you

A new study suggests confusion can be a powerful learning tool, but only under the right circumstances.



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From coffee beans to car parts: How Ford and McDonald's are teaming up for sustainable solutions

By turning coffee waste into auto parts, this collaboration builds on the two companies' commitments to environmental stewardship.



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This biodegradable, edible wrapper could replace single-use plastics for food

A 'living' wrapper called kombucha slime could ease the world's plastic pain.



  • Research & Innovations