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Isoude: Gorgeous Green Fashion That's Built to Last (Slideshow)

A couple of years ago, I made the New Year's resolution that my new clothing purchases would be limited to green garments. With the quality and selection of ">green fashion that's become available recently, it's been a promise




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Perfect Plant? 7 Great Uses For Industrial Hemp

Not to overly play into the stereotype of the TreeHugger moniker, but today is 4/20 so a quick review of all the great uses for industrial hemp--you




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Sourcing Sustainable Fabrics Made Easy with New Online Marketplace from Summer Rayne Oakes

When I caught up with Summer Rayne Oakes at a Fashion Delivers event in June, she only briefly mentioned her forthcoming project: Source 4 Style, an online marketing




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Hemp Bound: A playbook for the next US agricultural revolution

Doug Fine, author and solar-powered goat herder, takes us behind the scenes of what could be America's next billion dollar industry: the hemp economy.




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Patagonia launches new Workwear line made with innovative hemp fabric

Finally, there is now an ethical and practical alternative work wear option to Carhartt and Dickies.




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How to make apples last (almost) forever

No more excuses for soft, moldy apples in your fruit bowl!




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Man converts Boeing 727 airplane into home in the woods (Video)

Home is where and what you make of it -- this Oregon man made his in an old aircraft.




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Oregon's Lost Lake is disappearing through a strange hole

Bye bye, lake. Where it's going, nobody knows for sure.




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Cross-Laminated Timber is now made in the USA

Our favorite green building material is now made in Oregon




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This man is cloning old-growth redwoods and planting them in safe places (video)

David Milarch is on a quest to save California's coast redwoods, some of the world's oldest and largest living things; he may be saving the planet along the way.




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Framework Tall Wood Tower in Portland sprouting soon

"Forest to frame" is the new "farm to table."




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Refillable beer bottling system launched in Oregon

It is by far the most energy efficient way of packaging beer. It tastes better and there is no BPA.




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Handmade Online Marketplace Etsy Raises $20 Million Financing

Handmade is becoming big business -- reeeally big. Etsy -- the online marketplace for handmade items -- announced earlier this week that it has raised $20 million in venture capital financing and has now tripled its valuation at $300 million (not




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Wearable Planters Turn Live Plants into Jewelry

Portable tiny gardens set in gem-like planters give new life to the concept of jewelry.




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Modern classic jewelry made with recycled domino & Scrabble pieces

'Slow' games make a comeback, as stylish jewelry with a twist.




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Petit Beast: Hanging air plant sculptures look like graceful jellyfish

Combining low-maintenance air plants with reused sea urchin shells, these unique creations look very much like mysterious jellyfish.




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These fabulous, classic bags are made from stuffy old men's suits

You might not give an outdated wool suit a second look, but these trendy bags make the most of discarded suit fabrics, transforming old into something new and fashionable.




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Adidas sold 1 million pairs of shoes made from ocean plastic last year

Finally, green shoe design is reaching mainstream levels.




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Zero waste is a priority for Maori communities in New Zealand

A group called Para Kore has been working since 2009 to spread the message of waste reduction and diversion.




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There's a secret hidden continent beneath New Zealand

Scientists have been studying the huge submerged landmass for decades and are now pushing for its recognition as a continent.




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Giant 5-foot tall penguins roamed New Zealand with the dinosaurs

The discovery of one of the oldest penguin fossils in the world reveals higher diversity of early penguins than previously assumed.




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'Teeny tiny' houses are becoming a big thing in New Zealand and Australia

This is a trend that should catch on everywhere -- just building what you need.




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The Boomer is an elegant, steel-framed, open-plan tiny home

Made in New Zealand, this modern little house looks clean and bright inside and out.




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Want an avocado tree in New Zealand? Get in line!

Demand for this 'green gold' is so high that people are waiting months to get a sapling for backyard planting.




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All-glass solar-powered PurePods are for glamping out in the open

Made out of glass, these rentable cabins in New Zealand's wilderness are meant to reconnect guests with nature.




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These 4D printed aquatic plants create an immersive organic experience (Video)

This industrial designer's 3D/4D printed, life-like forms ask the question of whether we can design and engineer "intelligent" plants that can adapt to environmental changes.




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Could wool fibers replace glass fibers in FRP?

In New Zealand, surfboard maker Paul Barron has developed a new wild and wooly composite.




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Florida's official culture of driving blames pedestrians (and cellphones) for "vast majority" of deaths

A Today Show bit today is perhaps the grossest example yet.




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Florida study finds that drivers flout the law more than cyclists

But cyclists all run stop signs and red lights! Don't they?




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"ReNEWable Living Home" opens Orlando Builders Show, and it's not totally horrible

There are lessons to be learned from this model home built by Meritage, even if it is big and beige.




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Italian designer reinvents the classic Vespa for the electric age

So what if it doesn't have pedals and isn't as practical as an e-bike, it's so elegant and minimal.




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3D printed house displayed at Milan Design Week

Massimiliano Locatelli is writing a new language of design that reflects the new technology.




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Huge modular 3D printer creates $1,000 tiny house out of mud (Video)

This affordable tiny house was 3D printed using mud, rice husks and straw to create a "zero-kilometre" structure.




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Minimalist Monocabin is a modular 291 sq. ft. prefab

This modern prefab from Italy is conceived with energy efficiency and ease of assembly in mind.




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Italian island of Capri bans single-use plastics

But there's a strange loophole for biodegradable plastics, which we know aren't much better.




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Slow fashion advocate Zady launches “Essentials” collection

Zady is working to build a better clothing company from the ground up.




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Oil pipeline regulation is broken, admits US top oil pipeline regulator

In a shocking exclusive report, Marcus Stern and Sebastian Jones at InsideClimate News write that the top official of the agency that regulates oil and gas pipelines recently admitted that he's essentially powerless as a regulator.




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Church of England divests from dirtiest fossil fuels

Tar sands and thermal coal are out but natural gas and conventional oil can stay. For now...




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Contemplations On Obama's DeSmogBlog "Award," Blogging, And Presidential Politics

DeSmogBlog has conferred a controversial award on US Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama: It's called the "2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming." Joe Romm's reaction in Climate Progress is here: "DeSmogBlog owes Obama




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Finally: Environment Plays a Role in a Presidential Election

For the first time in my lifetime the environment is a top-tier issue in a presidential race, as was clearly in evidence in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. It was next to impossible for a candidate to have any sort of press event




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University of New Hampshire is First School in US to Run Off Landfill Gas

A few months back we heard about Middlebury College's efforts to green their electricity and heating. Well, over at the University of New Hampshire they're




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Helly Hansen's New Ekolab Line is Clean and Durable

If any of you have backpacked the Presidential Range and Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, you know that the weather can change in a hot minute. Over the past 20 years, we’ve hiked through hail, lightening storms, and




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Creating Energy from Landfill Gas Is Far From Myth

Video profile of University of New Hampshire Ecoline™ project. Video credit:UNH and Waste Management.The beginning of a new decade reminds us to also look back at the past 10 years to see how everything from daily tasks to new technologies have evolved.




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Winters Were Colder in Your Parents' Day: New England Trees Get 10 Days More Growing Season Than Pre-1970

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Ron Wallace is the 'Lord of the Gourd' with Record-Breaking Giant Pumpkin

How would you like to carve a Jack-o-lantern from one of these three record-breaking pumpkins from this weekend?




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Stop the presses for Labor Day

The North American holiday actually has its roots in a newspaper strike in Toronto, a fight over toxic working conditions.




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Transition Town to Plant 60,000 Trees

A community group plans massive tree planting effort to reforest one of Europe's least wooded areas.




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Peak Copper is back, thanks to Teslas and smart tech

It takes a lot of metal to make this stuff.




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Flecks of "solar glitter" can make almost anything solar powered

The tiny, flexible solar cells can be integrated into objects of any shape or size.




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This solar panel produces up to 5 liters of drinking water per day from the air

Zero Mass Water's SOURCE device is a rooftop solar device that produces water instead of just electricity.