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The best, worst and shark-jumpingest shipping container architecture of 2017

There is a shipping container building revolution coming, but it won't look like a bunch of silly boxes.




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Citing threat to human survival, doctors divest from fossil fuels

Climate change is already killing people around the world. Now the British Medical Association has vowed to do something about it.




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Why we buy organic and fair trade: Feelings matter

New research identifies the emotions that motivate some people to make ethical choices day after day.




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Petite Mort: Precious ethical furs handmade from roadkill

Millions of animals are accidentally killed on US roads every year. Here's how one company is turning these sad statistics into something useful, beautiful and respectful.




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Your guide to ethical and sustainable leggings

Leggings are a wardrobe staple for many, whether we’re keeping our legs warm in the winter or staying comfy at yoga all year long.




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How to create an ethical wardrobe for less money

Ethical fashion brands tend to be very expensive, but there are ways to make the transition without spending a pile of money.




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Mammoth Outerwear keeps you warm without animal products

This new Canadian startup offers fabulous winter parkas and bombers that are entirely ethical and vegan.




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It's better to have a job than no job... but it's not that simple

Just because garment workers are desperate doesn't mean we should exploit them.




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Sierra Club and Aspiration launch new platform for sustainable investing

Putting your money to work for sustainability is probably one of the most important things you can do. It just got easier.




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Ethical consumers are perceived as odd, boring, unattractive, and not stylish

An amusing new study delves into the social consequences of one person witnessing another person doing the 'ethical thing' -- and why it makes them uncomfortable.




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Is it possible to be a frugal and ethical shopper?

These two values can feel deeply at odds with each other, which can make shopping decisions very challenging.




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10 casual shoes and sandals for vegans

This is fashion with compassion -- beautiful footwear that causes no harm to animals and minimal damage to the planet.




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World Bank will stop financing oil and gas exploration and production

And they are not alone...




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An entire country just divested from fossil fuels

This is beginning to get real.




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Coal divestment reaches Japan

Nippon Life Insurance will become first major Japanese institutional investor to ditch coal.




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Audubon Releases Birding the Net, the Opposite of Angry Birds

Tweet tweet. Collect enough virtual birds and you could make it to the Galapagos.




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Facebook and Opower Launch Social Energy App

Ready to share kilowatts? Facebook launched its social energy app today that will enable users to share and compare their home energy consumption.




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BBC Launches Facebook App "Meet Your Planet"

A new app from BBC allows you to explore content from their great nature documentaries.




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Follow the eye candy even if you cannot be at eCarTec

If you cannot be live in Munich for eCarTec, check out the photo updates on their facebook page




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Facebook wants to use solar drones to bring internet access to the world

The company would use the Solara solar-powered drone, which can remain in flight for five years at a time!




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Best of Show, Booth Design at Greenbuild: Kohler And Living Machine

The point of having a booth at Greenbuild is to attract attention, and like with everything else, design matters. I immediately fell in love with the Kohler booth; In some ways it is so 2005 green, with its recycled materials




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LEED-Bashing: USA Today Series Says It's Too Easy To Be Green (and a Whole Lot More)

The rating system is attacked in 2012 for its 2002 standard and the timing couldn't be worse.




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CREE Brings Wood and Concrete Hybrid Construction To North America

The Austrian system can build at 30 storey high-rise in thirty days




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Rick Fedrizzi Defends LEED, Attacks The Naysayers and Delivers Barn-Burner Defense of Green Building

The CEO of the USGBC brings it on and fights back against the Plastic People their poodles in Congress




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New LEED standards mean healthier, greener buildings on the way

LEED v4 is here.




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Amazing glass that tints on demand is now solar powered

This glass makes your window treatments obsolete.




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Best in Show: The Nexus eWater recycler saves water and energy

Waste water and waste heat recovery together at last, perhaps the most interesting new thing at Greenbuild.




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Greenbuild roundup: Heroes, villains and vinyl

All kinds of interesting people were at Greenbuild.




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Storing bikes? The Pushbike Arc lets anyone pack'em, stack'em and rack'em

This Australian design takes the work out of parking bikes.




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Scottish architect's Design-Build company MAKAR is doing wonders with wood

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.




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People, things and the Best of Show at Greenbuild

There were inspiring people and some neat new things at Greenbuild, and my biggest ever Best of Show.




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Is LEED tough enough to stop climate change? Is it even the right question?

What do we really want from a building certification system?




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Priest in Brazil Replaces Prayer With Tree-Planting

Planting trees may be a great way to help save the environment, but thanks to one Catholic diocese in Brazil, it's having a similar effect on parishioners' immortal souls. In an effort to bring a bit of green back




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Copper Mine Threatens Ancient Afghan Monastery

A decade ago, the Taliban's destruction of two 1,500-year-old Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley drew worldwide attention to Afghanistan's rich archaeological




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Solar Panels, Reforestation Project in Works for Armenia's First Green Pilgrimage Site

The Echmiadzin Cathedral complex in Armenia is one of 12 spiritual destinations that are becoming more sustainable.




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Christians Aren't Behind America's Climate Problem, But They May Be the Solution

Religious communities may be wide open to fighting climate change, new evidence reveals.




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The Shakers' Design Sense is Still an Influence in America

The Shakers may be long gone but their simplicity of design still has an influence on American furniture.




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We Are Sacred As The Earth: An Interview With Earth Activist Starhawk

"I believe that the earth is calling to us and that we are here to serve the planet as a whole by our ability to appreciate, to give gratitude and praise, to become ecstatic with wonder for the earth."




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Is Anti-Science Environmentalism a Real Problem?

We often criticize climate denialists for being anti-science, and yet many environmentalists reject science that clashes with their own worldview.




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Interfaith Preach In On Climate Change Will Pressure Obama To Act

Religious communities across the country will gather to reflect on the moral implications of climate change and our imperative to act. One man, in particular, should pay heed.




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Pope Benedict quits; Was advocate of a cleaner, greener lifestyle

When Copenhagen failed in 2010, he denounced the failure.




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Church of England to fight "great demon" climate change, mulls divestment from fossil fuels

Inspired by massive flooding in the UK, the Church of England is renewing its commitment to fighting climate change. And that's sending a signal to the markets.




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Union Theological Seminary and Catholic university both divest from fossil fuels

Fossil fuel divestment is a moral issue. Religious institutions appear to be taking a stand.




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6,000 mosques to go solar in Jordan

With high energy prices and a whole lot of mosques, Jordan has every incentive to support solar-powered worship.




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Why I hate the word 'humanism'

My problem with the word "humane" and the humanism movement




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Witches are hexing Brett Kavanaugh

Witches are holding events to publically curse the guy.




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Saudi Prince building solar powered city with robots, glowing sand and an artificial moon

Will NEOM be "an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization" or "a totalitarian surveillance state"?




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Reconnecting with nature has environmental and mental health benefits

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee at The Guardian writes about the deeper human issue at risk in our ongoing environmental crises - a disconnection from the ecosystem.




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Meet the Plastisphere: Ocean plastic pollution is so bad, it is now its own ecosystem.

Scientists have named a new marine ecological community, the Plastisphere, comprised of, you guessed it, plastic -- and all the organisms that now call ocean plastic home.




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Could climate change be any worse? Yes. BEARS!

Just when you think climate change couldn't get any worse... BEARS!