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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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Great bathroom reading: 'Essential Composting Toilets' (book review)

Gord Baird and Ann Baird have written the definitive guide.




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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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European Bats Resistant to Deadly Fungus

Since 2006, bat populations in the northeastern United States have been decimated by a mysterious condition known as "white-nose syndrome." Caused by a fungus,




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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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Whatever, Tigers and Pandas: Lesser-Known Endangered Species Need Help Too (Slideshow)

With thousands of species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- and some 110,000




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Amazon Tribe Battles Rabid Vampire Bats

At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been




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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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Fascinating New Species Found in Papua New Guinea

When it comes to finding fascinating species previously unknown to science, it turns out that forests of Papua New Guinea are a darn good place to look. Researchers have recently disclosed their




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Billboard Houses Bats and Translates Their Speech, Tells Us What's Up

If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a




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South Carolina Documents Its First Human Rabies Case in Over 50 Years

South Carolina health department announces a human rabies case sourced from a bat.




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Action-Flick Filming Takes Toll on Bulgarian Bat Cave

The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say.




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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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Scientists Estimate Up to 6.7 Million Bats Dead From Disease

White nose syndrome has decimated bat populations on the East Coast. Now scientists believe the disease, which is spreading, may have been worse than previously imagined.




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Why Bats Need a 'Happy Hour' and Swedes Try to Comply

Wind power is not just a Danish success story - Swedish wind is growing leaps and bounds. But the bats may suffer, so the Swedes are trying to impose 'bat happy hour'




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Small Wind Turbines May Cut Bat Activity in Half

A study of the impact of small residential wind turbine installations on local wildlife populations shows a potential loss of habitat for bats and a steep reduction in activity around the units.




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Holy Bat Cloud: Designer's Eco-Sculpture Boosts Bat Biodiversity

One architect creates a series of intriguing artificial habitats for threatened bat populations.




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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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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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Bat Week 2019: fascinating facts & free activities

Did you know that Bat Week takes place every year, October 24–31? The time is set aside to raise awareness of the many contributions that bats make to the planet and encourage conservation of bat species.




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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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Brazil wants to build enough wind turbines to power Sao Paulo within 7 years

Brazil's economy is growing fast, and it is expected to need an increase of 50% in power generation capacity over the next decade.




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Do fossil fuel industries understand how unpopular they are?

As alternatives to Big Oil and Big Coal emerge, it would be a mistake for executives to rely on loyalty or love from the public.




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Public charging station powers mobile devices with footsteps and solar panels

The ENGO charging station uses kinetic tiles and solar panels to charge up to 14 smartphones at a time, and provides free WiFi access and an emergency phone.




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State of the Union: “No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change”

President Obama’s State of the Union speech takes aim at climate change deniers.




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Almost everyone is underestimating renewables

Most reports suggest a gradual increase in renewable energy. But don't believe the anti-hype.




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These biodegradable bio-photovoltaics use moss to generate electricity (Video)

Using digital fabrication, moss and clay, this designer's "moss voltaics" would use these hardy plants to transform sunlight into electricity.




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Developing countries outspent developed ones on renewable energy last year

For the first time, developing countries outpaced wealthier nations in green energy development.




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New imaging technique sees inside lithium batteries

A new way to see inside batteries in real time as they go through charging cycles could help prevent battery fires and increase battery lifespans




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Innovative floating tidal-power turbine generates 3 GWh of energy in its first year of testing

The floating tidal stream turbine off the coast of Scotland has proven that it can produce power safely and cheaply year round.




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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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Canada declares climate emergency, then approves pipeline expansion

Trudeau doesn't seem to understand what 'climate emergency' means.




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Biodegradable disposable plates are made from food waste

Here's a new take on disposable tableware: these are made from discarded food.




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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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The risks of single use plastic alternatives

As the war on plastics heats up, could the alternatives be worse for sustainability?




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The humble beeswax wrap is a zero waste superstar

These clever, all-natural wraps cut down on plastic use and make food last longer, too.




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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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The Month in Design, From Micro-Apartments to GlennBeckistan

Also tanks in your backyard and killer stairs




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Why happiness is a global issue

Nic Marks at The Guardian writes on the importance of seeing happiness as a business and political issue.




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A year ago in TreeHugger, from zombies to shotguns

It was hot last year, too.




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Quote of the day ties Agenda 21 to everything from Benghazi to Paula Deen

We learn that Agenda 21 is part of a much larger Mainstream Media plot to hide the UN takeover of the American government.




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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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Is Home Depot giving up on "Going Green" Strategies?

Nope. It is just another example of the anti-environmental, anti-sustainability, climate-change denying, anti-Agenda 21 crowd hard at work.




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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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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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Agenda 21 Update: The battle in the bike lanes

It's the election cycle, and Agenda 21 has become an issue.




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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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Dudes in pickup trucks are deliberately blocking Tesla superchargers

And yelling profanities in the process.