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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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Beautiful, historic town in Sicily is selling homes for $1

Sambuca, the "City of Splendor" is hoping to save its historic structures and revive a waning community.




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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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Dutch denim company lets you lease organic and recycled jeans

Mud Jeans are bringing apparel to the circular economy.




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Coclico’s gorgeous shoes come with carbon offsets

These designer shoes embody traditional craftsmanship and a Slow Fashion aesthetic.




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Petite Marin repurposes men's dress shirts into beautiful and durable children's clothes

This new California-based company is run by two entrepreneurial moms who understand the value of local production, quality fabrics, and reducing one's environmental impact.




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8 slow fashion dresses for spring and summer

Ethically sourced dresses for this spring, summer and many more sunny days to come.




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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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Seaweed key to a sustainable T-shirt

Apparel hasn't gotten more sustainable since we started TreeHugger, but a new day for the old T-shirt could be near.




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Native Americans protest tar sands pipeline with horseback ride along proposed route

This week, Anishinaabe tribal members began riding horseback along the proposed route of a what could possibly become the largest tar sands pipeline in the United States.




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U.S. House approves Keystone XL pipeline

House of Representatives voted in favor of the XL Keystone pipeline project, in an attempt to bypass executive authority.




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U.S. Senate votes down Keystone XL pipeline

After the House of Representatives approved legislation pushing the Keystone XL forward, the Senate has rejected it.




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Mounties call 'anti-petroleum movement' a security threat to Canada

Most people think of them as environmentalists, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have other ideas.




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Tiny House Warriors building tiny homes to block construction of oil pipeline (Video)

These are tiny homes with an activist bent, taking a stand against the incursion of a pipeline that could contaminate indigenous lands.




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New Hampshire Moves Closer to Renewable Energy Standard

Currently, New Hampshire is the only state in the northeastern United States that has not passed some form of renewable portfolio standards legislation. However, that may change soon. Last week, the New Hampshire House voted decisively in favor of a




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

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Flip Side of Local - New Hampshire Sees Opportunity In Food Self-Sufficiency

University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally-produced food system. The good news: farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' of food -




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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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Why There's No New Coal When Reserves Run Out & How That Could Help Biofuels

New research rewrites our understanding of why no new coal deposits develop -- but offers hope for post-coal energy solutions.




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Did Peak Oil Doomers Fixate On a False Scenario?

The problem is not too little oil, says a new IEA report, it's too much oil. And it illustrates why activists should not presume to know the future.




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Rap News video presents our energy crises, global warming denial, Elon Musk on Mars, and our #1 energy solution

This rapper nails it, imho.




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Sooner than you think? A prediction that electric cars will cause the next oil crisis

It actually won't take that much to reduce oil demand enough to cause serious trouble.




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Forward Labs solar roof promises higher production, lower cost than Tesla's

The unicorn of cheap clean home energy will most likely be found in an affordable solar roof that doesn't look like a solar roof, and that can pay for itself quickly. This startup may have developed it.




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IKEA is now selling solar systems, no Allen key required

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.




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Tesla tiny house integrates solar with Powerwall, towed by Model X (Video)

Tesla's tiny house integrates solar power and its Powerwall home battery into a seamless system, and can be towed by the Model X.




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Solar 'smart' greenhouses produce both clean electricity & food crops

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.




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The 1948 Dover Sun House used phase change materials to store heat

Pioneering solar house was designed and engineered by women




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In praise of the dumb fridge

A smart fridge might well make you fatter and poorer.




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Sengled Element system offers app-controlled dimmable & tunable LED lighting (Review)

In which I try out a smart lighting system in my dumb home.




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High-performance #TinyLab house is the "Tesla of tiny houses" (Video)

This home for a family of three and two cats has been built with efficiency, comfort and health in mind.




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Life with a Sense home energy monitor: More devices, real savings

I knew that real-time data on our energy use would be interesting. But I wasn't sure how much it would actually save us.




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EcoChic Design Award Challenges Chinese Fashion Designers to Face Local Problems

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.




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We Love Tiny Houses and Apartments, But 16 Square Feet Is Just Too Small.

It is both a parody of the real estate business and a shocking exposé of Hong Kong Housing




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4 Tons of Illegal Ivory Seized in Hong Kong

A stark example of the the scale of the illegal trade in ivory, and the financial rewards for doing so.




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Hong Kong's housing crisis seen through 40 sq.ft. "cubicle" apartments (Photos)

The growing disparity between wealthy and poor is reflected in this shocking photo report on the tiny island city's critical lack of affordable housing.




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These stylish beanbags are filled with 4,000 recycled plastic bottle caps

One design attempts to deal with the problem of plastic bottle caps -- which often get discarded rather than recycled.




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Multifunction and multi-user desk is shared by people and cats

The CATable will keep the cat off the keyboard.




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Stool ZERO: Handwoven seating made from recycled fans & wire

Vibrantly colored wire is saved from the landfill and woven into recycled fan cages to produce these fresh pieces of furniture.




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Butterply: Digitally fabricated multipurpose desk is assembled without screws (Video)

Featuring an interlocking system that's inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, this desk also has a swappable, modular system for organizing your stuff.




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Small Hong Kong apartment uses low-tech ideas to maximize space

No high-tech bells and whistles here, but tried-and-true strategies are used in this renovation to make a small space feel much bigger.




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Does sewer pipe architecture make sense?

A new proposal for Hong Kong tries to fit people into pipes.




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The fight against food waste requires a new mindset

Toni Desrosiers, founder of Abeego beeswax wraps, wants people to start thinking about the natural life cycle of food.




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Photo: Demure seahorse plays coy in the coral

Our photo of the day comes from the waters off Sydney, Australia.




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Jobless Man Builds House That's Literally Made of Money

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real estate market, and an uncertain currency future, make a house out of shredded-up money.




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House Made of a Billion Euro Notes Opens to the Public

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.




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Horsemeat scandal in UK and Europe continues to threaten confidence in food chain

The horsemeat scandal in the UK and Europe could make more people turn to vegetarianism.




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Passive House, Passivhaus, what's in a name?

We have been asking that question for a while and it keeps coming up.




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Seven new architects' works on show and touch at London's Royal Academy

Seven architects have created massive and impressive new structures inside a building from the 1700's.




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Magical thatched wooden pavilion contains "portals to the universes" (Video)

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long-vanished lake.