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It's World Plumbing Day

We turn on the tap and run some of our favorite stories.




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Composting toilets are replacing the plastic portapotties

The big Glastonbury music festival is getting new composting loos




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Man builds $1,500 tiny house, forages & grows his own food (Video)

Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food.




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Chinese Fruit Bats Demonstrate Unusual Sexual Behavior Never Before Seen in Adult Animals

New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior. While the behavior has




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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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10 adorable bats that may or may not suck your blood

A lesson in loving flying nocturnal mammals.




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Cool High-Rise Bat Habitat Draws Nature's Pest-Fighters to New York Sculpture Park (Video)

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy "Bat Tower" being built to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area.




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Deadly White Nose Syndrome Keeps Spreading Among New York's Bat Population

New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been




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The Week in Animal News: Epically Lost Sea Turtle to be Released, Sylvester Stallone Movie Harms Bats, and More

A young sea turtle found in the Netherlands will be released after a three-year recovery. We also have the search for the "extinct" Javan tiger, Sylvester Stallone's bat cave incident, and more.




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The Week in Animal News: Powerful Sea Cucumber Poo, Giant Pythons Invade Florida and More

Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.




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How to remove a bat from indoors

In the face of a devastating epidemic, bats need our tender loving care more than ever. If one sneaks inside, here's how to remove it without toxicants or harm.




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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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Artists Build a 'Shanty Town' for Evicted Urban Birds

The 'Spatzenfavela' ('favela' for sparrows) provides a home for birds that have lost their city nests and roosts due to urban renewal.




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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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UK bird charity moves forward with gigantic wind turbine

This should take the wind out of the "all turbines are evil" crowd's sails.




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Become a bat detective with this plug-in device for your smartphone

The Echo Meter can detect, record and identify the sounds of bats nearby.




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The BatBnB is the perfect tiny home for your bug-eating guests

Tiny houses aren't just for people; bats can be comfy and warm in them too.




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Green documentary makers unite to form Reel Power collaborative

From Gasland II to Dirty Business, some of the most active environmental documentary makers in the country are joining forces to build a movement.




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Nuclear fusion milestone reached: more energy out than in

Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) achieve a major breakthrough on the path to the dream of fusion as a clean energy source




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Building a clean energy economy that works

Why Greens Should Support the Fight for Economic and Racial Justice




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Reggie Watts and Greenpeace team up for a greener cloud

Internet sensation Reggie Watts takes aim at Twitter and Amazon for Greenpeace's #ClickClean campaign, urging them to step up their clean energy game.




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Clean tech is better for economic growth than fossil fuels (take that, Big Oil!)

Anti-greens often try to make economic arguments against the big spring-cleaning that our civilization is going through.




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New Yorkers overwhelmingly support a clean energy future

The Nature Conservancy’s new research shows New Yorkers want to take action against climate change.




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Leo DiCaprio plays it safe with his new film, 'Before The Flood'

In his new climate change documentary, DiCaprio opts for caution and polite concern at a time when outrage is desperately needed.




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FireBee Power Tower turns any heat source into an electricity generator

This 5W thermoelectric generator converts heat from a chimney or camp stove into electricity for charging USB devices.




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Pop-up restaurant in soaring Swedish gondola opens for sustainable diners

Famed chef Magnus Nilsson will be serving dinner for three days in Åre, Sweden … 4,200 feet in the air.




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Prototypical incubator transforms plastic waste into edible mushroom cuisine (Video)

Is this the future of food -- eating mushrooms that have been fed with plastic waste?




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Modernist Kuskoa Bi is 'world's first 100% bioplastics chair'

Molded out of plant-based bioplastics and sitting on a wooden base, this curvaceous piece combines traditional craftsmanship and new industrial design.




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Mealworms can eat an all-plastic diet and not die

Researchers at Stanford found a way to speed up the process of breaking down Styrofoam and other types of polystyrene, with help from mealworms.




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Biodegradable semiconductors could help us curb our e-waste problem

The thin, skin-like electronics may usher in a future of earth-friendly gadgets.




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Corc Yoga mats are green and gorgeous, made from trees

Crafted from sustainably harvested cork in Portugal, these stunning mats will take your yoga practice to new eco-friendly heights.




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Shellworks creates sustainable packaging with seafood shells (Video)

This alternative to single-use plastics uses a range of custom-designed machines to create a recyclable and compostable bioplastic, sourced from discarded crustacean shells.




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Scandi design + Portuguese cork: Buy your next phone case from 15:21

It's so much nicer to feel a warm natural material in your pocket than cold slippery plastic.




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Actor Luke Perry was buried in this biodegradable mushroom suit

The biomix-infused suit helps break down a body, while neutralizing toxins and boosting plant growth.




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A Picture is Worth: Agenda 21 and The Green Movement as Marxist Plot

The cover of a new book by a leading Agender says it all: Sustainability is just the tip of the Marxist iceberg.




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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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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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Cobb County, Georgia sees Agenda 21 plot in bike lanes and sidewalks

Putting money into non-motorized transportation is just the thin edge of the Agenda 21 wedge.




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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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Build your own open source cargo bike (or buy it from XYZ Cycle)

It's more than just a bike; it is a different way of thinking about design and manufacturing.




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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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New studies measure the true cost of sprawl, and it's more than you think

It costs a lot more to run a suburb than it does to run a city.




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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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These postage stamps are considered too dangerous for children's eyes

The US postal service is destroying the whole series because of safety concerns.




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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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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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CarbonCure concrete blocks store CO2 for a lower carbon footprint

What to do about all that CO2 emitted when you make cement? Inject it back into the stuff and turn it back into limestone.




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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.




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Give charities free ad space on your smartphone's lock screen with Screen Donor

This app gives free ad space to deserving charities and NGOs on one of our tech-centric culture's most common screens - our smartphone lock screens.