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Scientists witness breathtaking polar sunrise over Greenland

Scientist captures stunning sunrise during a research mission to study polar ice in the Arctic circle.



  • Climate & Weather

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Spend 2 minutes as a wild polar bear in Alaska

Scientists have released the first 'point of view' video filmed by a wild polar bear, offering a glimpse into the animals' daily lives.




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Watch the Earth 'breathing' from space

A new visualization from NASA offers a unique view of life on Earth.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate bar goes fair trade

Cadbury will certify 300 million of its Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars as well as its packaged cocoa, at a cost of £1.5m ($2.1m), by the end of summer.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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World's skinniest house built in Poland

The narrowest building in Poland is the work of Israeli writer Edgar Keret.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Recycled Brazilian office warehouse has neat ideas for small living

In order to make its employees more comfortable when they want to take a break from work, a sports marketing company from Sao Paulo, Latin Sports, asked Brazili



  • Remodeling & Design

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Artist crochets fabulous playgrounds for kids

The idea behind Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam's lovely, loopy play structures was born when children started playing on the designer's crochet sculpture in an art ga



  • Arts & Culture

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16 clever uses for binder clips

There's less paper in need of binding these day, so put this simple contraption to work with these clever applications.




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Recipe: Strawberry Basil Sangria

Unlike many sangrias, this one is designed to showcase the wine, not cover it up.




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Bulldog uses zipline to get to his treehouse

Bulldog rides zipline to Costa Rican treehouse home




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Top 10 vegetables to grow in your garden

These nutritional powerhouse vegetables can flourish in your yard or in containers.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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The most beautiful waves ... ever

As you click through these incredible photos, you'll remember just why it's worth fighting to save our oceans.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Slow business: A manifesto for reclaiming our lives

Business as usual is destroying our lives and the environment.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Absurd Korean pop hit 'Gangnam Style' actually a subversive critique of consumerism

Could we be witnessing Korean pop's plunge into the cultural criticism arena?



  • Arts & Culture

b

iFixit: The website dedicated to fixers around the world

iFixit.org is dedicated to providing free repair manuals to every gadget on Earth.




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Artist carves vintage books into astoundingly intricate 3-D sculptures

Guy Laramee's work speaks to the 'erosion of cultures' and our over-reliance on analytical knowledge, symbolized by the book.



  • Arts & Culture

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Graffiti artists upcycle thousands of spray cans into botanical art

CANLOVE, a collective of graffiti artists, is on a mission to collect and upcycle as many spray cans as possible into art.




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6 of the best chicken coop tours in the U.S.

Apparently touring other people's chicken coops is what all the cool kids are doing these days.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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Man doing charity bike ride across Canada has bike stolen in Winnipeg (but he's not giving up!)

Anas Cheema, a 22-year-old economics student at the University of Victoria, decided to dedicate his summer.



  • Arts & Culture

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Polluted German cities eye free public transit

Several German cities are planning to fight air pollution by eliminating fares on public transport.




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Can a pollution tracker help us breathe easier?

Flow, a handheld tracking device by Plume Labs, wants to help us better understand — and avoid — urban air pollution.




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Don't underestimate the carbon-capturing power of the most basic backyard

Research conducted in Madison, Wisconsin, finds soil in developed residential landscapes is better at absorbing CO2 than forests.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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Taj Mahal gets beautifying mudpack treatments

To help erase unsightly yellowing brought on by air pollution, India's crown jewel is looking for new beauty miracles.



  • Arts & Culture

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French theme park teaches birds to collect litter

Smart rooks collect litter at Puy du Fou, a historical theme park in Western France, in exchange for food.




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You have a personal cloud of particles and bugs that follows you everywhere

Each of us is a cloud of microscopic particles, chemicals and microorganisms swirling around us that's always there. It's called an exposome, and it's unique.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Urban air pollution skyrockets as California wildfires burn

While the Camp Fire rages over 100 miles away in the Sierra Nevada foothills, San Francisco experiences an air pollution emergency.



  • Climate & Weather

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Why are blue whales changing the frequency of their songs?

Researchers suspect it could be in reaction to melting sea ice as well as human noise pollution.




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Mystery behind the beach invasion of Garfield phones finally solved

Decades after the first of the iconic orange phones began washing ashore, a French community finally has answers.



  • Wilderness & Resources

b

The Pliocene called. It wants its CO2 levels back.

Earth's atmosphere hasn't had this much CO2 in human history, and possibly not since the Pliocene Epoch about 3 million years ago.



  • Climate & Weather

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Coal: Jobs should not trump mountains

We need to give coal miners safe, productive, high paying jobs building the green future. Their jobs should not stand in the way of killing coal.




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Coal Country documentary debuts this week despite opposition from Big Coal

Documentary on coal mining’s effect on Appalachian communities premieres in West Virginia this Saturday.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Restoration no fix for mountains destroyed by coal mining

Federal law requires mining companies to restore strip mines to their original condition, but many don't bother.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Mountaintop removal: Battle for the mountains

While activists against mountaintop removal grow, miners of the region defend their practices as a way of life.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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A Wendy’s boycott

The fast food company allows some of its restaurants to display signs in support of mountain top removal.




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EPA gives us a day to celebrate

Today the EPA moves to veto the largest mountain top removal proposal, Spruce No. 1. Environmentalists have been pushing this for 3 years. Today we celebrate th



  • Research & Innovations

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Mountain lovers, don't get excited yet about EPA ruling on MTR

New EPA ruling on infilling valleys may limit future mountaintop mining permits, but it's only the first step in a long process to stop the 'Appalachian Apocaly



  • Research & Innovations

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The war is just beginning ... on Climate TV

Yours truly will be featured on the latest edition of Climate TV talking about mountaintop mining and the future of climate activism: 'The war is just beginning



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Ashley Judd talks mountaintop removal at National Press Club

Actress keynotes luncheon to denounce the harmful practice of mountaintop removal coal mining -- and its effects on the people of her native Kentucky.



  • Arts & Culture

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Ashley Judd mulling possible Senate run

Actress and environmental activist Ashley Judd has started reaching out to prospective supporters and fundraisers for a potential 2014 run.




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A recyclable phone with eco-awareness alerts

MBA students in a CSR course at Boston College were tasked to create a green business idea for Verizon and a recyclable phone project came out on top.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Mobile aid: Recycle your cell, help Haiti

Have an old cell phone stashed away? Recycle it with the Phones for Haiti program and you'll help the American Red Cross provide disaster relief in the earthqua




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Business owners: Recycle your company's cell phones

Communications Wireless Group works with business owners to recycle, refurbish, and reuse old wireless devices while maintaining a zero-landfill policy.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Sprint's in-store phone buyback program

Sprint customers can get instant credit on their phone bills by recycling old phones at local stores.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

b

How to build a greenhouse

Build a greenhouse. If you think a greenhouse is out of reach, think again: you can construct a simple structure, at an affordable price, in a weekend’s time.



  • Remodeling & Design

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The O'Neill Passive House: Cozy, comfortable and crazy efficient

The O'Neill Passive House, America's first passive house retrofit project, requires as much energy to operate as a standard hair dryer.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Canadian cob house achieves Living Building certification

Eco-Sense, described as North America's first code-approved, seismically engineered load-bearing insulated cob residence, is one of the first projects to gain s



  • Remodeling & Design

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At Unilever's Hamburg headquarters, sustainability is a side effect

On Hamburg's waterfront, world-class sustainable architecture has emerged not from lofty green goals but from practical questions like this one: How do you buil




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Michael Pollan: The problem with monocultures

Michael Pollan explains that if farmers are only growing one or two crops, that means people are only eating one or two crops, which does not make for a healthy



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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Michael Pollan: Get animals back on farms

Michael Pollan lists three things that need to be removed in order to get animals back on farms.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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Pollan weighs in on Obama's first 100 days

The president is getting a report card for his first 100 days in office from Michael Pollan and others. How's he doing on the food front?



  • Organic Farming & Gardening