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9 plants to grow for your medicine cabinet

From sleep aids to pain relievers, here's how to grow your own natural remedies.




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5 forgiving houseplants that don't ask for much

Perfect for beginners, brown thumbs, or people on the go, these easy indoor plants don't mind low light, low humidity, or irregular watering.




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How to care for houseplants during the winter

Colder weather provides some unique challenges for indoor plants; here's how to how to help them get through it.




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The top houseplant trends for 2020

Get ahead of the crowd with these indoor plant predictions from the all-knowing Plant Mom.




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Put a houseplant on your desk to decrease anxiety significantly

A new study reveals stress-reducing benefits for office workers when even just viewing a small plant on their desk.




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10 houseplant decor ideas for big impact

You don't have to have an entire garden room to make a statement with your indoor plants.




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14 houseplants perfect for Valentine's Day

From love potion plants and heart-shaped leaves to love goddess blooms, these plants are like a valentine from Mother Nature.




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20 of the most practical plants you can grow

Even if doomsday never comes, these 20 plants are some of the most practical you can grow.




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How to get your houseplants through the winter

From watering needs to ideal temperatures, here's what to know to help your indoor plants survive the cooler months.




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Gogoro launches the VIVA, a lighter, cheaper, electric scooter with a swappable battery

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.




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Hungary Declares State of Emergency As Toxic Industrial Sludge Covers Villages (Photos)

Four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing in Hungary as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. A




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Zero Energy Christmas Decoration Lights Up Under Existing Streetlamps

How about using the light from already existing street lamps to spark off the festive season? Here are some off-the-grid parasite lamps so to speak, that look good by day!




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Micro Compact Home Dropped By Helicopter Onto Site in Switzerland

You can't call an aluminum guest house dropped by helicopter green, but you sure can call it cute.




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Aluminum-clad Airship prefab is a durable, off-grid tiny home (Video)

Built using aluminum, stainless steel and wood, this modular prefab is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled.




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Beer and pop cans are not being recycled because car and airplane makers don't like recycled aluminum

Remember how aluminum cans are "100 percent recyclable into pure aluminum"? They lied.




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Declawing linked to chronic pain and aggression in cats

Declawing cats often leads to long-term pain and unwanted behaviors.




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Lawsuit filed over awful changes to Endangered Species Act

Environmental and animal protection groups have sued the administration over the Trump-Bernhardt 'extinction plan.'




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Just what we needed dept.: IBM's Watson mixing our granola

So much intelligence and so much technology, to what end.




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Superbook turns your Android smart phone into a complete laptop

It may well be all most people need as a computer, and it may well be what we have been waiting for.




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Growing virtual plants could teach farmers how to best grow real ones

Researchers are developing computer simulations that can improve agricultural success.




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Microsoft's data centers in Ireland are getting an influx of wind power

The tech giant just agreed to purchase all of the energy from GE's Tullahennel wind farm.




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Microsoft submerges data center off Scotland's Orkney Islands

This is the second deployment of the tech company's underwater data center project.




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Photo: The magnificent eyes and ears of a black-tailed jackrabbit

Our photo of the day comes from Merced, California.




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Photo: Gelada baboon is regal in the winter sun

Our photo of the day comes from "The Wild Place Project."




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Photo: Caterpillars, a love story

Our photo of the day comes from the romantic rain forest of Ecuador.




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Australia slashed plastic bag use by 80% in 3 months – here's how

After a few big players entered the ring, the environment was spared some 1.5 billion plastic shopping bags in under 100 days.




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Photo: Carijoa coral is a vision of snowflakes

Our photo of the day delivers a bit of winter reverie from the waters of Australia.




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Accessible tiny home helps elderly woman age in place gracefully (Video)

This lovely little home was built for a woman who wants to be closer to her loved ones, without losing her autonomy.




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Yardstix delivers modern, compact "backyard architecture" made from cross-laminated timber

This company creates modern, energy-efficient versions of the backyard 'granny flat'.




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Australia drops food to hungry wallabies

Thousands of kilos of vegetables will hopefully prevent starvation in burned-out regions.




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Look for the label: the SFI logo is a sign of sustainable forestry

Where did your paper coffee cup come from? Does it support a red-cockaded woodpecker? Or a gopher tortoise?




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Connecting kids to nature: Latest free activity downloads from Project Learning Tree

Does your family PLT? Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an award-winning environmental education program for children and teens in all grades.




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How sustainable forestry can help the legacy of African American Landowners

As we recognize African American History Month, it is important to highlight a lesser known part of this history - the legacy of forest ownership among the black community, and the leaders who are working to preserve it.




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New webinars engage the marketplace on responsible forest sourcing

GreenBlue is challenging companies throughout the United States and Canada to change their thinking about sustainable sourcing.




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5 things everyone can do to protect the planet's soil

Here's why soil is one of our most valuable natural resources and what you can do to support it.




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Let's turn barren farmland into nature reserves

A new study finds that degraded agricultural lands could be low-hanging fruit for expanding the world’s conservation areas.




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Sri Lankan farmers have an ingenious way to deter wild elephants

It involves planting another surprising crop.




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Lab-grown meat is coming to your plate

Memphis Meats will soon start construction on a pilot facility that will scale up production.




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Fairtrade International takes prize for most effective label

Despite recent criticisms, a new report shows that Fairtrade International is doing better work than any of its competitors.




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Latest drone view of Apple HQ shows a building as shiny as a new iPhone

Things are moving quickly; Apple employees might get updated offices before Mac users get updated computers.




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Latest drone videos of Apple parking garage shows landscaping being installed

Oh, and the donut building on top is coming along nicely too.




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Apple, Google, Facebook lead in clean energy and policies says latest Greenpeace report

But Amazon has some work to do.




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Apple's new product launch: Introducing Apple Park

I have complained about this building forever, but will admit that Norman Foster has designed a masterpiece.




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Why is Silicon Valley planning so stuck in the 1950s?

Allison Arieff asks that and a lot of other questions.




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Apple employees keep walking into those gorgeous glass walls at Apple Park

C'mon guys, look where you are going. This is an Apple product and you are clearly using it wrong.




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This could be the last drone video flyover of Apple Park

Videographer Duncan Sinfield says "it's only a matter of time until the campus becomes shut-off to drones completely."




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Resist disastrous planned obsolescence by making old iPhones sexy again

Fight Apple’s annual seduction dance by buying a perfectly restored iPhone from a company rallying against thoughtless consumerism and e-waste.




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From bomb to bracelet, Lao artisans turn shrapnel into jewelry

Somehow, beauty and hope for the future are found amid the wreckage of war.




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India follows China's lead, bans plastic waste imports

Another door has closed for Western nations hoping to dump their trash overseas. Maybe it's time for another model?




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Only 7,100 cheetahs left on the planet

Huge decline surprises scientists who say that the world’s fastest land animal won’t escape extinction unless urgent conservation action is taken.