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The sharing economy comes into the commercial kitchen

Commercial kitchens are really expensive to build. Why not share?




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The sharing economy, Cadillac style

Cadillac introduces BOOK, which lets you book the car you want when you want it. We should all be so lucky.




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Grobike brings the sharing economy to kids’ bikes

Why buy a kid's size bike when you can rent the right size bike every year?




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Could Michigan replace lost manufacturing jobs with solar jobs?

It wouldn't solve everything, but becoming a solar power hub could give a new spark to the area.




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Sustainable Sole, Eggplant with Chili and Spring Onions and Heavy Turf

:: Make your soles sustainable with shoe shopping tips from Summer Rayne Oakes.




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Is Brown the New Green? Not Watering Lawns Works

It's catching on: homeowners letting lawns go fallow during the summer without wasting resources on watering. When I lived in Seattle it was a common practice. After the grass turns brown, come fall,




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Cornell Installs Indoor Lawn to Soothe Students During Finals (Video)

The university brings the outdoors in to help students relax and focus on studying.




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Staggering e-waste numbers revealed in grim new report

Picture this: In 2016 the world generated enough e-waste to fill a line of 18-wheelers from New York to Bangkok and back.




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We need a BYOC (bring your own cutlery) movement

Reusability beats out biodegradability any day.




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Wild City Mapping: Interactive online sharing of wild urban spaces (Video)

This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.




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Montreal reveals plans for an electric car sharing service, aims for 1,000 EVs by 2020

The city wants to become a leader in electric transportation, part of a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third.




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Let's bring back tasty waffle slabs

This architecture and engineering design used to be all the rage. What happened?




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Montreal considering separate traffic laws for cyclists

The age of vehicular cycling is coming to an end; cyclists want equity, not equality




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In celebration of MacGyvering: 90 hacks to welcome in a new word

With Oxford Dictionary’s addition of the verb 'MacGyver' to the official lexicon, we pay homage to the almighty hack.




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Pioneering green roofed building by Ted Cullinan saved from demolition

It was designed to stay cool without air conditioning, and the green roof was part of the strategy.




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Architecture For Humanity's Really Boring Year in Haiti

Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,




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Solar Brings Internet Connectivity to Haitian Schools

Haitian schools connect to the internet for the first time, powered by the sun.




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All-ages coloring book communicates the science behind climate change (Video)

Using officially documented research and color-it-yourself data visualizations, this project aims to convey climate change data in an engaging way.




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Jargon watch - "cocktail geoengineering" takes fixing the earth to the next level

If one geoengineering plan doesn't work, maybe two or three combined will




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Uncovering an Ancient City Felled by Urban Sprawl

With a population that approached 1 million and a surface area of more than 115 square miles, the Khmer city of Angkor in Cambodia was the largest preindustrial settlement on the planet. After coming into being during the ninth century A.D., it thrived




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Mass timber construction is about more than just storing carbon

It also can put people back to work and save our forests.




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In Canada, saying climate change is real could get you in trouble during the election

Because a fringe candidate is a climate denier, it's now a political issue.




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BMW Considering Launching EV by 2012?

During a recent interview, BMW chief executive Norbert Reithofer revealed that the German automaker was considering bringing a battery-powered vehicle to the U.S. market by 2012 in an effort to meet more stringent




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Star of Tesla-smearing Top Gear is now buying a BMW i3

In a funny twist, one of the stars of an extremely popular car show (Top Gear) whose script smeared Tesla is now going electric. James May is getting a BMW i3.




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Indoor Air Quality: Causes Of, Testing, and Monitoring Indoor Air Pollution

Pollution from power plants, cars, and other transportation is a well-known contributor to outdoor air pollution, but our indoor air quality is often worse; it can be up to 10 times worse for you than the air outside. Microbial pollutants like mold,




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How to bring green into the classroom

Teachers, are you looking for ways to teach green values to your students? We've got ideas lined up for you!




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Self-filtering water bottle also acts as a flashlight

The ÖKO Odyssey water bottle actually has six functions!




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Climate change could bring stronger winds, more wind power

A 1.5-degrees-Celsius warmer world would bring bigger gusts of wind more regularly.




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Our soaring love of meat is bad news for the planet

The average amount of meat consumed per person globally has nearly doubled in the past 50 years, a trend with terrible consequences for environment, scientists warn.




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U.S. Asian Carp Czar Says Poison, Genetic Engineering Among Solutions

The Obama administration loves its czars almost as much as the media loves using the title. So here goes: The U.S. Asian Carp Czar, also known as John Goss, says he has a multi-pronged strategy to help keep Asian carp from




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Feds Hiring Unemployed for Great Lakes Cleanup

Who says we have to choose between jobs and the environment? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is starting a sort of Public Works program for the Great Lakes --- prioritizing funding for restoration projects that put the




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Satellite-connected Raspberry Pi cameras allows for real-time monitoring of Antarctic penguins

Scientists will be able to easier monitor the population of penguins, thanks to a high-tech solar-powered remote camera setup.




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How to grocery shop when you can't bring your own containers

Learning which plastics are most harmful to health is one thing you can do.




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"Pay-As-You-Throw" Trash Metering Cuts Landfill Waste by 50% in a Month

Some places have looked at paying people to recycle, but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead. When the UK talked about implementing a "pay-as-you-throw" scheme for trash, our readers were




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Maine conference brings together the "most experienced passive house minds on the planet"

It's the first conference of the North American Passive House Network and it sounds like it was a lot of fun.




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EcoCor brings Swedish building tech to the USA to produce passivhaus prefabs

It's a mix of good design, a tough standard and sophisticated engineering.




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Seattle Kids Are Exploring Trees Inside And Out

Trees are the longest living and largest living organisms on earth. One acre of forest absorbs six tones of carbon dioxide and puts out four tones of oxygen. Trees are good noise barriers, making a city and neighborhood quieter. This is just the tip of




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New California law helps diners to bring their own containers

It's still up to a restaurant to decide to fill them, but the law provides detailed guidelines on how to do it safely.




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Warm autumn weather brings out troops of amorous tarantulas

An extended mating season is bringing California's tarantulas out in droves; here's a reminder to go easy on the gentle giants.




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Dramatic Projections Bring Climate Change Impacts Home

Stunning Art Project Projects Impacts of Climate Change TreeHugger was founded on the idea that art and design can help solve the ecological crisis we are facing - most recently evidenced by our round up of environmental artists shaking up the art




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Bald eagles are littering Seattle backyards with landfill trash

Some 200 bald eagles are scavenging the goods at Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dumping the leftovers in suburban backyards.




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Photo: California towhee is the picture of spring

Our photo of the day comes from Atascadero, California.




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Why are London's house sparrows disappearing?

If you guessed that climate-crisis-fueled, disease-carrying mosquitoes are wiping them out, you may be correct.




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Brooklyn's new community micro-grid will allow for peer-to-peer renewable energy sharing

Solar panels, distributed energy, resilient microgrids, and blockchain. Oh my!




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Kids need these 3 things, but parents aren't delivering

It's one thing to criticize kids' tech habits, but what alternatives do parents offer them?




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How to thrive during a lockdown with kids

School closures mean kids will be spending a lot more time at home. Here's some advice on how to cope.




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7 strategies for curing the urge to shop

Constantly fulfilling your desires leads to financial problems. Learn how to get that under control.




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The Tiny Home Bed is a minimalist, decluttering space-saver

This sturdy bed helps to declutter small spaces by combining sleeping and storage.




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Alaskan mom builds lovely tiny house -- and is offering the plans for free (Video)

With the aim of inspiring others to start building things, this self-taught carpenter mother of two is giving away the DIY plans for this tiny house and the furniture inside for free.




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Odin the dog protects his goats during Sonoma fire, takes in baby deer too

The stubborn hero refused to leave his goats ... miraculously, they all survived the firestorm.