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Colorado startup rents out stylish van conversions for the curious (Video)

Ever wondered what it's like to live in a renovated van? Here is one company that rents DIY van conversions out.




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Exhaustive new study looks at kitchen exhaust and household air quality

Designing kitchen ventilation that works in really tight houses seems almost impossible.




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Colorado could save $2.5 billion from shutting down coal

And people keep saying it's too expensive to deal with climate change.




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Why do cyclists break the law?

A new episode of the War on Cars looks at an issue dear to my heart.




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Make room for the e-bikes, the top-selling electric vehicles for the next decade

A new study from Deloitte predicts what we have said before: e-bikes will eat cars.




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Yellow is the new green: is pee-cycling greener than a composting toilet?

Urine for a surprise as Alex Wilson concludes that urine collection beats composting. I was, because they are not mutually exclusive.




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Peecycling in the city: Would you "stealth pee" in an urban yard?

Nutrient cycling is important. But it's not something you want to get arrested for.




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Are public toilets a right in public spaces? (Survey)

If you gotta go, you should have a clean private environmentally friendly place to go.




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Going Steady: 10 Animals More Monogamous Than Us (Slideshow)

Ah love. Woody Allen has some nice thoughts on this tricky thing that perhaps gets more thought around Valentine's Day. The recent swan divorce shocked us to the core, so we decided to ponder the happy




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Whatever, Tigers and Pandas: Lesser-Known Endangered Species Need Help Too (Slideshow)

With thousands of species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- and some 110,000




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Little Brown Bat Will Be Pushed to Extinction by Spreading White Nose Syndrome: New Study

photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr White nose syndrome, a disease caused by exposure to a particular fungus, first discovered in 2006, has been afflicting bats in the eastern United States and appears to be spreading. Considering that it's




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South Carolina Documents Its First Human Rabies Case in Over 50 Years

South Carolina health department announces a human rabies case sourced from a bat.




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Action-Flick Filming Takes Toll on Bulgarian Bat Cave

The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say.




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Scientists Estimate Up to 6.7 Million Bats Dead From Disease

White nose syndrome has decimated bat populations on the East Coast. Now scientists believe the disease, which is spreading, may have been worse than previously imagined.




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4 Ways to Participate in National Pollinator Week

It's National Pollinator Week! Start a garden, encourage pollinators, or join an event in your area.




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Adding Wildlife 'Passengers' to the Urban Commute

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.




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3D-printed robotic bat wing holds new possibilities for small aircraft

Dig out those old da Vinci drawings of winged flying machines, as he was really on to something!




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Mongolia embarks on clean energy future with first wind farm

While in Mongolia for World Environment Day, I toured the Salkhit Wind Farm.




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How to take control of consumerism during the holiday shopping season

The holidays are a time of joy, happiness, families and... waste? Estimates show that almost 25% of waste produced in the US comes from the six weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years. But we can change that, starting now.




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Episode 2: Don't malign the millenials; The kids are alright.

Once again, one has to parse the data to get the real story.




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Public charging station powers mobile devices with footsteps and solar panels

The ENGO charging station uses kinetic tiles and solar panels to charge up to 14 smartphones at a time, and provides free WiFi access and an emergency phone.




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State of the Union: “No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change”

President Obama’s State of the Union speech takes aim at climate change deniers.




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U.S. and India agree to “cooperate closely” on climate change

Yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a deal to work together against climate change.




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New imaging technique sees inside lithium batteries

A new way to see inside batteries in real time as they go through charging cycles could help prevent battery fires and increase battery lifespans




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Canada declares climate emergency, then approves pipeline expansion

Trudeau doesn't seem to understand what 'climate emergency' means.




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With Lolistraw, you can have your straw and eat it too

But even more exciting than its edibility is the Lolistraw's hyper-compostability.




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Take-out delivery giant trials sauce sachets made from seaweed

Perhaps more importantly, it's also giving customers the option of refusing such sachets in the first place.




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Edible, plastic-free packaging is created with fermentation, like kombucha (Video)

Using the same fermentation and bacterial and yeast culture that creates kombucha, this packaging is edible and compostable.




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10 ways to improve your recycling

Here are some tips for taking your recycling to the next level.




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Agenda 21 Update: Tinfoil Hats in Iowa, Republicans Fight Back

It's Crazytown in Des Moines as Republicans fight Soviet style collectivism, AKA sustainable development




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Environmentalists rejoice as Agenda 21 is implemented across North America!

A green, sustainable future awaits us all as the United Nations proposal for sustainable development becomes the law of the land.




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Boy Scouts of America introduce sustainability merit badge

It's a surprisingly well-rounded and thorough view of sustainability that shouldn't be limited to boy scouts.




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How North Carolina's Political Turmoil is Impacting the Environment

From reproductive rights to voter ID, there have been some battles in North Carolina of late. The environment has not escaped unharmed.




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This is why we can't have nice things. Like a functional government.

There is some exceptional the nonsense coming from Republican members of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Good grief.




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Cyclists are the new enemy of right wing politics

The War on Cars pitch wins conservative votes across North America.




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New study looks at how the Agenda 21 conspiracy is poisoning public discussion about sustainability

The Southern Poverty Law Center says “It is time to call out Agenda 21conspiracy theories and the people spreading them.”




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NRDC: Agenda 21 conspiracy theorists threaten cities' sustainability efforts

Jacob Scherr of NRDC (a group that helped write the Agenda 21 document) looks at the success that the conspiracy theorists are having.




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House of Representatives tells Pentagon to ignore climate change and Agenda 21

Just when you think it can't get any crazier in US politics, it does.




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The green split between the city and the suburbs is real, as new study shows we are increasingly polarized.

A new study from Pew Research is totally depressing, showing how left and right are moving further apart.




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Why plastic bag bans are like brown M&Ms

Adam Sternbergh finds that bag bans are a symbol of something much bigger.




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Agenda 21 is dead, but its legacy is still killing transit

Not to mention bike lanes, higher density housing, and bird sanctuaries.




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Dudes in pickup trucks are deliberately blocking Tesla superchargers

And yelling profanities in the process.




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Living with less car: three concepts for camping with your Mini

How to get away from it all while you take it all with you.




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Coca-Cola launches "natural" Coca-Cola Life.

After predicting that an Organic Coke would be the pinnacle of greenwashing five years ago, Next Nature Network reports that Coca-Cola has actually done it, launching a "natural" Coke called Coca-Cola Life in Argentina.




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Pittsburgh bike campaign is a lycra-free zone, showing cyclists as people

Why can't we all just get along? New campaign humanizes cyclists.




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Scenic America, and now Scenic Toronto, fight billboard blight

The new digital billboards taking over our cities bring a whole new set of problems. That's why we need these orgs.




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New ad reignites war between clean energy provider and big utilities

Ecotricity's collapsing cooling towers return. This time, they're tapping into popular anger over utility profits.




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Detroit Dirt and Ford do brilliant parody of Cadillac's ELR ad

If this is what advertisers do to promote electric and hybrid cars, I may just go buy a TV.




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Man to live on melting iceberg for one year to urge climate change action (Video)

To highlight the accelerating disappearance of Arctic sea ice, this man plans to survive alone on a melting iceberg for up to one year.




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City of Toronto pulls great anti-littering campaign

But really, they should have seen this coming.