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From wave power to clean water: SAROS is a wave-powered desalination system

This system could produce 3,500 gallons of clean water per day, at half the cost of current desalination methods, using just the motion of the waves to power the Reverse Osmosis process.




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A solar-powered greenhouse in a waterless desert, and a 100% autonomous bus

The latest episode of Fully Charged appears to come to us from the future. Or, maybe just Australia...




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New peer-to-peer seed sharing platform aims to facilitate a diverse seed supply

The Center for Food Safety's recently launched network is a bid to preserve global plant biodiversity and work toward food security around the globe.




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Creating Equilibrium: What if environmentalists and the tech-crowd actually talked to each other?

An event on Lake Tahoe promises "world class minds, radical innovation and kickass rock 'n roll". And solutions to the biodiversity crisis, too.




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Care and feeding of a healthy microbiome

The secret to a diet that makes the microbes in your gut healthy, for fighting obesity and disease




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Earthworms lose weight in plastic-filled soil

When the earthworms are in trouble, we all are.




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Why federally protected lands are so crucial

Over the last 30 years, habitat loss for imperiled species in the U.S. was more than twice as great on non-protected private lands than on federally protected public lands.




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JUPE health is an 'immediate response to hospital overcrowding'

These flat-packed rest-and-recovery units could take the load off hospitals in a hurry.




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West Coast Green 2010: Michelle Kaufmann Interviews Eric Corey Freed

Eco-architect Michelle Kaufmann talks to Eric Corey Freed about his book Green Building for Dummies, disco balls and the death of Pergo floors in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Eric is the principal architect at organicARCHITECT, and




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Film Review: To Buy, To Throw Away, To Buy; the Secret History of Planned Obsolescence

Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the




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Upcycled Farm Steel and Wood Furniture That Thinks Cradle-to-Cradle

Using reclaimed wood and steel from old pig fences, this Dutch company makes exquisite tables, while recycling all byproducts into other useful goods -- cat litter, compost and alcohol..




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The Green Chair by Oscar-Nominated Design Studio Mariscal is Affordable and 100% Recyclable (Photos)

An affordable, long-lasting and attractive chair made from 100% recycled and recyclable plastic, designed in Barcelona by Estudio Mariscal. Need it far away? Then just buy the seat and get local legs!




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New Japanese House by Alts Design Office is influenced by traditional design

It is all about the progression through the spaces.




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RIP Ted Cullinan, "an architect who made the world better"

He was a pioneer of sustainable design.




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How our thinking changed in 2019: Upfront Carbon Emissions

Nobody cared much about this a few years ago. They do now.




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The prefab dream: Talented architects working with a great builder offering original designs

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes




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Every house needs a chalkboard

It's a powerful organizational tool that pulls a household together.




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Get houseplants delivered straight from the greenhouse

If you don't have an independent plant shop nearby, Bloomscape is the next best thing.




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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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Scrap Art Rocks: Bang a (Recycled) Gong, Get It On

With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged




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Vedanta Resources' Orissa Bauxite Refinery Expansion Blocked by Indian Government

Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the




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Alcoa, Major World Polluter, Brings Sustainable Transport to Bauxite Mine & Feeds Energy into Grid

It may sound like an oxymoron, bringing sustainable practices to mining operations, but unless we all stop consuming resources immediately, mining is also not going anywhere. So this is good news: since 2007, Alcoa's Jamalco




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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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Haunting Photos of the Hungarian Town a Toxic Sludge Spill Painted Red

The toxic red line that runs through this town -- as photographed by Palíndromo Mészáros -- is shocking evidence of what can go wrong.




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Someday we might get 100% of our aluminum from recycling (using only 5% of the energy)

Recycling aluminum uses about 95% less energy than making new one from bauxite ore, which compares very favorably with other types of recycling.




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Is using recycled aluminum sustainable and green? A new book raises questions

Yes, but we still have a problem, says Carl A. Zimrig in a new book "Aluminum Upcycled: sustainable design in historical perspective." Because we are using too much of the stuff.




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Japanese aluminum company fabricated data about strength, durability

Another reason that we have to use less of the stuff.




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Dirty coal-fired aluminum gets a boost with new Trump tariff

But hey, it's all in the interest of national security; Americans have to be ready to defend themselves from Canada.




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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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Portraits of rescued farm animals allowed to grow old

A new book, Allowed to Grow Old, reveals beautiful portraits of something we don't get to see very often: Elderly farm animals.




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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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Meet the monkeyface prickleback, the hero we all need

This vegetarian tidepool dweller could be an answer to dietary protein in times of climate crisis, but who could ever eat a charmer like this?




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The mini-computer market just got a lot more crowded with this $15 64-bit entry

Smaller, faster, cheaper! Single board computer (SBC) innovations are jumpstarting a whole new wave of DIY devices.




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Computer program solves mysteries of fossilized leaves

The new program can learn and classify leaves so well that it could reveal the "tree of life" of ancient plants.




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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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Having Facebook friends is associated with a longer life

A new study suggests that a social media community adds to longevity similar to an offline community.




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Computer models show how ancient people responded to climate change

The findings could help us deal with environmental changes happening now and in the future.




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Photo: Young weedy seadragon soars like a superhero

It's a bird ... it's a plane ... it's a weedy seadragon!




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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: Dark-eyed junco is the picture of spring

Our photo of the day comes from Jackson County, Oregon.




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Studded with sea debris, these wild paintings are ocean 'portals'

Aiming to spark conversations about marine conservation, these beautiful works reimagine the oceans in their pristine state.




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Here's the dirt on a rammed-earth renovation in Australia

Add heritage preservation, passive house design and a butterfly roof and it pushes a lot of buttons around here.




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Small carbon-neutral house in Australia built with recycled materials

Constructed as an "apartment-house" hybrid, this prototypical 753-square-foot house makes the most of a small lot.




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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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Blooming 3D jelly cakes are made with seaweed (Video)

Made carefully by hand, this food artisan's edible works of jelly art are bursting with colorful flora and fauna.




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Renovated terrace house has see-through stair of the week

This home has been redesigned to feel much more spacious, and connected to its surroundings.




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Photo: How are seashells formed?

Our photo of the day provides a lesson in the origins of seashells.




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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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Fred's Tiny Houses win big sustainability award

There is more to the tiny house movement than just living with less. It can also be a story about resilience, sustainability and adaptablility.