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Finding structure within randomness

Following in the footsteps of Fibonacci and the Mandelbrot Set, a computer program creates beautiful structures of chaos.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Offset with Fair Trade carbon

Two fair trade pioneers get into the carbon market.



  • Research & Innovations

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Pearl Jam offsets 2009 tour with tree-planting initiative

MNN chats with guitarist Stone Gossard about the band's latest project and why the group is passionate about making a difference for the environment.



  • Arts & Culture

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Norfolk Southern partners with GreenTrees LLC

Norfolk Southern is working with GreenTrees LLC on a five-year reforestation project.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Video: Jane Lynch tries carpooling with Matthew Morrison

"Why do you have to sing everything like you just swallowed a pair of jazz hands?!"




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Carsharing expands (with apologies to Uber)

Car2Go is now the world's largest service, with a million members and a new outpost in Brooklyn.




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What's NASCAR without the noise?

Science Guy Bill Nye wants battery-powered stock car racers. But fans go for the noise.




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EcoSense for Living: Getting kids to reconnect with nature

This four-part series gives great advice on getting a new generation to enjoy the outdoors.




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Treehouse retreat with skate park appeals to nature lovers, 13-year-old boys

Beautiful and daring, Cinder Cone will resonate with those who have graduated from Thrasher to Dwell.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Oas1s offers the finest in treehouse living without actually living in a tree

It's a little bit Ewokian, a little bit New Urbanist and a whole lot intriguing.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Make It Right partners with FYI on tiny house in New Orleans

At long last, Brad Pitt's green rebuilding effort thinks smaller (but just as sustainable).



  • Remodeling & Design

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3 Solar Decathlon homes designed to withstand the next Katrina

Resilient design is showcased in competing homes hailing from New York, New Jersey and Missouri.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Net-zero home provides California farm laborers with heart and 'sol'

UC Davis students conceive a 'deliberate solution' to substandard farm worker housing.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Dying Silicon Valley mall to be reborn with world's largest green roof

The man-made foothills are most definitely alive in Cupertino.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Unplug, escape and leave the digital world behind with Slow Cabins

From the emphasis on nature to the secret location aspect, there's a lot to like about this off-grid lodging concept from Belgium.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Milan will counter climate change with help from 3 million new trees

Milan, Italy's smoggy second largest city, envisions a future that's cooler, cleaner and swathed in green.



  • Climate & Weather

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These shrew-like critters with dangerous sex lives are now officially endangered

Habitat loss and climate change have pushed the antechinus, a marsupial that looks like a small shrew, to the brink. And their sex lives don't help.




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Conservationists record a 'surreal' encounter with a rare forest rhino taking a mud bath

Only 68 critically endangered Javan rhinos are left on Earth.




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Tree frog with strange claw discovered in remote Andean dwarf forest

The newly identified species may already be at risk of extinction due to habitat loss, researchers report.




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It's a record season for sea turtles in Georgia, even with a hurricane

2019 has been a record year for the threatened species, even after Hurricane Dorian destroyed sea turtle nests in the state.




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An organic candy cane with no red dye or corn syrup

Do you or your kids like candy canes, but do you dislike the dye and corn syrup they contain? Look no further.




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Do good while you shop with DoneGood

DoneGood's browser extension and app let you shop for socially responsible alternatives to whatever you're looking for.




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Salazar shares his energy priorities with Congress

During an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, the secretary of the Interior outlines the Obama administration's energy wish list.




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Media Mayhem: Can Twitter save the earth?

How a social networking site beat the major media on a major environmental story.




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Mother Nature's greatest hits: 20 songs with an environmental side

Peter Dykstra counts down his top 20 eco-songs. Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, and a few other strange bands make the cut.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Pay your legal fees with carbon credits

Clients of the Cueto Law Group in Miami, Florida can now pay up to 20% of their legal fees with carbon credits.




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Geoengineering with space particles, artificial volcanoes and Special K

It's no substitute for simply getting rid of coal, but geo-engineering just may be our planet's Hail Mary pass.




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How can I take an ecologically sensitive cruise vacation with my family?

A few ocean liners have been working to cut back on their pollution. But you're still free to be a glutton at the buffet.




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Americans are curbing their love affair with beef

Americans are curbing their love affair with beef and the result is a 10 percent reduction in food-related emissions.




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Ed Begley Jr.'s back with new book and third season of 'Living With Ed'

Ed Begley Jr.'s back with new book and third season of 'Living With Ed.' Green guru follows up his 2008 book with 'Guide to Sustainable Living' and takes his re



  • Arts & Culture

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With Philips latest LED release, color and convenience comes at a cost

Philips, a company known for its L Prize-winning, checking account-busting incandescent replacements, enters the web-enabled LED market with a spendy, smart and




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Price of budget-friendly LEDs to drop further with Energy Star certification

Thanks to Energy Star qualification, the most affordable high-quality LED on the market, the Cree LED Bulb, just got even cheaper.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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War on light bulb efficiency rages on with GOP-backed rider

Just when you thought energy-efficient light bulb uprisings were a thing of the past, the DOE is now powerless when it comes to enforcing efficiency standards.




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GE joins smart LED race with 'commercially viable' Link bulb

Although not the flashiest thing on the block, GE unveils a WiFi-connected LED bulb with a more agreeable price point than its peers.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Ahead of Valentine's Day, GE calls it quits with the CFL bulb

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, pigtail.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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The problem with vanity sizing

The variability in clothing sizes is frustrating, wasteful and erodes consumer confidence.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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The Hunt helps online shoppers with difficult-to-find items

If you've ever had trouble finding something online, a new website is here to help.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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5 ways to wear fall's lace trend (without looking like a bride)

Lace has broken way outside the bridal realm and can now be found on a plethora of accessories.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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Show your love with Made With Love bracelets

The stylish recycled rubber bracelets provide fair wages to the women who craft them, and sales of the bracelets support children in Africa.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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A new hot denim company with a heart of green

Eva & Paul jeans are a crowdfunded sustainable denim company that's obsessed with fit.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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San Francisco eyes last season's fashions with new recycling initiative

Feel free to leave your heart in San Francisco, but don't forget to drop those old boxer shorts and blouses in one of the city's new textile recycling bins.




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Stay warm and keep it hyperlocal-ish with this homegrown hoodie

The North Face releases a limited edition hooded sweatshirt (mostly) designed and manufactured within the Bay Area.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Embrace your inner couch potato with these socially responsible robes

Jackie Nelson and Evan Streusand's company Highway Robery brings sustainability and a fun, sustainable vibe to lounging around.




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Q&A with Nick Cope of Green Painting

Meet my friendly neighborhood green painter: Nick Cope of Green Painting, a Red Hook, Brooklyn-based 'eco-responsible' housepainting firm.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Heartfelt horticulture: Q&A with Margaret Roach

Margaret Roach, high-powered Manhattan media player turned solitude-seeking garden blogger, releases a memoir, 'And I Shall Have Some Peace There.'



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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Quayle Hodek: A young CEO running with the wind

Quayle Hodek is the 33-year-old founder and CEO of one of the leading companies in wind energy. Find out what he thinks the energy grid will look like in 50 yea




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15 minutes with author Rebecca Cohen

Rebecca Cohen, author of '15 Minutes Outside,' dishes the dirt on how to get kids off the couch and out the door.




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An eye for nature: Q&A with artist Dan McCarthy

Screen printing maven chats about early inspiration, storytelling, and dinosaurs.



  • Arts & Culture

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A bunkie of one's own: Q&A with Sarah Richardson

On 'Sarah's Summer House,' interior designer Sarah Richardson tackles a most formidable challenge: The eco-renovation of her off the grid summer cottage located



  • Remodeling & Design

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Catching up with the editor of Green Talk

Blogger and editor Anna Hackman chats with MNN about green buildings, green business and bar mitzvahs.