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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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10 ways to live better electrically

The cost of electricity is going up (both in dollars and in environmental and health impacts). Here are some tips for reducing your costs and impacts.




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Nobody's perfect, and you don't have to be

We all have to change the way we live or we are in big trouble. But let's be real about it.




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Morocco pledges to ax fossil fuel subsidies

A level playing field for renewables is about to get a step closer, at least in Morocco.




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2050 carbon goals are great, but we must cut emissions now

End goals for CO2 emissions are just one part of the picture. How fast we start moving toward them is just as important.




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First ever porous liquid shows promise for carbon capture

Up until now, only solid materials have offered the ability to capture materials using the filtering power of pores




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Why we should all aim to be carbon positive

Minimizing your footprint is nice. Maximising your impact is better.




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What's the environmental impact of a loaf of bread?

Researchers were shocked to discover what part of the bread-making process generates most emissions.




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New carbon capture technology could help microbreweries recycle CO2 & cut costs

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.




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Smokestack America is back!

President Trump will unleash America's "vast energy wealth." Just watch.




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This Swiss facility is sucking carbon dioxide out of the air for growing veggies (Video)

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.




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Definition of irony: Britain hit by CO2 shortage

It's also affecting everything from meat packing to crumpets.




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CO2 doesn't know borders, but we are shipping embodied carbon all over the world

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."




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Happy 10th Birthday, Bitcoin. Now go away before you fry us all.

The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.




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High fiber diets are good for buildings, too

Natural materials are the only ones that sequester carbon rather than produce it.




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Report: Scotland could reach 'net zero' emissions by 2045

The goal could be reached even earlier, if Scots changed what they eat.




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By 2050 We're All Likely To Be Using Fewer Resources, Whether We Like It Or Not

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.




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Peak People? Are We Actually Running Out of Our Most Valuable Resource?

Everyone is worried about population growth, but in fact it may well be going the other way.




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Why Birth Control is as Important as a Climate Treaty or Food Aid

Excessive population growth presents an immediate environmental danger greater than climate change.




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Global Economy Expanded More Slowly Than Expected in 2011

Without a more comprehensive vision of economic health and better ways to measure it, we are flying blind on a path to economic decline and collapse.




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Expect 2°C Temperature Rise by Mid-Century, Club of Rome Report Says

On a more positive note, the report also notes that population growth with stabilize sooner than expected, at about 8 billion people by 2042.




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Reproductive Rights Scrubbed From Rio+20 Text - Why That's Bad News for the Planet

Opposition from the G77 Nations and the Vatican led to the removal of the words 'reproductive rights' from the Rio+20 text, leaving in 'acceptable modern methods of family planning'.




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Wired Magazine Tells Us "Don't Worry, Be Happy" About Climate, Population, Resources, Pandemics

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.




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David Attenborough Calls Humans a "Plague Upon the Earth"

And there are plenty of humans who would agree.




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Hans Rosling debunks myths of child birth and the "developing world"

The brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so-called developed and developing countries.




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Women Must Be Heard in the Climate Change Debate

Women are more affected by climate disruption worldwide, so their voices must be heard.




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Hans Rosling: Debunking the myth that helping the poor is causing overpopulation (video)

The incomparable Swedish medical doctor and statistician Hans Rosling tackles a very perverse and tenacious myth about overpopulation.




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Can we prevent a food breakdown?

As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself.




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World population likely to surpass 11 billion by end of century

Says the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.




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We've already spent nature's budget for the year, 6 days earlier than last year

Today is Earth Overshoot Day, but it's not exactly something we should be celebrating. It's actually a wakeup call for humanity.




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U.S. birth rate has dropped to lowest in 30 years

Demographers are complaining, but Americans have many good reasons for not wanting so many kids.




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22 perfect words about books and reading

On National Book Lovers Day, we celebrate the ultimate slow hobby.




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How many books is your social media habit replacing?

The number is probably far higher than you think.




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Which is greener, books or e-books? Neither.

There is a third, more sustainable option: the library.




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India may smash its 175 GW renewables target several years early

It's not revising up its official targets, but the government is hinting that it may now achieve 225 GW by 2022.




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Oregon 'solar apiary' combines energy production with honey

Pollinator power, y'all.




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Help crowdfund solar for affordable housing

The Bay Area needs affordable housing. And it needs clean energy. A new campaign supports both.




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Just add water and sunlight to these gold stars to create renewable energy

In a double breakthrough, scientists find a material four times more efficient at making hydrogen by photocatalysis and demonstrate how to make it at low temperature




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Scientists created mutant bacteria that collect solar power on cloudy days

Move over, regular solar panels.




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UK renewables produced nearly 30% of electricity last year

Primary energy consumption was down, too.




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Sweden to reach its 2030 renewables target 12 years early!

For those who say it's too difficult...




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Cleveland, birthplace of Standard Oil, promises 100% renewable energy

There's symbolism here. Let's hope there's substance too.




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Vestas unveils gigantic 10 MW wind turbine

This is green energy writ large. Very large...




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Scottish utility goes 100% renewable, pushes electric vehicles too

One of the UK's "Big Six" energy companies has gone a dark shade of green.




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UK now has more renewables capacity than fossil fuels

The country's onward march of low carbon energy shows no signs of stopping.




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Coal-fired power plant to become solar-powered village

Now that's progress...




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Renewables overtook coal in Germany last year

It's an important inflection point. But a lot of work still remains.




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By 2030, 1/3 of UK energy will come from offshore wind

The British government sees offshore wind as a genuine opportunity to lead.




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Community solar-plus-storage goes big in Massachusetts

Home owners are going solar, without having to put anything on their roof.




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Scotland produced enough wind energy for double its homes in last 6 months

In the first half of 2019, Scottish wind generated enough electricity to power the equivalent of 4.47 million homes, almost double the number of homes there.