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RubyMoon makes 'gym-to-swim' wear using recycled fabric

After all, why shouldn't you wear the same top to the beach as you do to the gym?




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No sweat in this shop: Garment factory is renovated to Passivhaus standard

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture has designed a revolutionary building for an industry that needs a revolution.




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After Keystone XL, what's next for the climate movement?

The climate movement must be about more than Keystone XL, write four climate activists.




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Will Alberta's tar sands create a Canadian "cancer alley"? Study finds high levels of carcinogens in air.

A new study has found that the air pollution from Alberta's massive tar sands operations is putting the health of downwind residents at risk by releasing unsafe levels of carcinogenic and toxic chemicals into the air.




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TarSandsSOS lets you track tar sands oil tankers

ForestEthics has launched a new tool called TarSandsSOS that lets citizens track supertankers hauling tar sands oil along the Pacific coast in real time.




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Tastes Like Tar Sands: Crashing the Corporate Beach Party

Activists deliver a "No Tar Sands!" message to Sustainable Brands corporate conference via kayak flotilla




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Teenager invents faster way to clean up toxic tar sands waste using sand and bacteria

The breakthrough also scored 18-year-old Hayley Todesco a Google Science Fair Award.




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U.S. House approves Keystone XL pipeline

House of Representatives voted in favor of the XL Keystone pipeline project, in an attempt to bypass executive authority.




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U.S. Senate votes down Keystone XL pipeline

After the House of Representatives approved legislation pushing the Keystone XL forward, the Senate has rejected it.




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Mounties call 'anti-petroleum movement' a security threat to Canada

Most people think of them as environmentalists, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have other ideas.




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Keystone XL’s builder asks for suspension of pipeline application

A new twist in the plot for the controversial pipeline, as TransCanada asks for a suspension of its application.




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Tiny House Warriors building tiny homes to block construction of oil pipeline (Video)

These are tiny homes with an activist bent, taking a stand against the incursion of a pipeline that could contaminate indigenous lands.




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New Hampshire Moves Closer to Renewable Energy Standard

Currently, New Hampshire is the only state in the northeastern United States that has not passed some form of renewable portfolio standards legislation. However, that may change soon. Last week, the New Hampshire House voted decisively in favor of a




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Green Co-Housing Community Development In Nubanusit

New Hampshire USA's first green co-housing community, Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm, features renewable energy ready and energy efficiently designed residences. The 29 total units include 7 single-family homes, 7 duplex units, and 2 quad units on a




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Field Guide to Eco-Friendly, Efficient, Effective Print

Design like you give a damn with the second edition of Monadnock Paper Mills' how-to guide for creating more-sustainable print materials. A Field Guide: Eco-Friendly, Efficient and Effective Print, accompanied by luscious illustrations by the




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Presidential Campaign Update: Al & Arnold At The New Hampsire Primary

This is wonderful. A bi-partisan political storm is brewing over New Hampshire because Al and Arnold have found a clever way to inject serious climate discussion into the coming US presidential primary season. Timing could not be better, with the IPCC




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Five Questions You Should Ask the Presidential Candidates

This next week is all politics, what with today's Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries on January 8. Most Americans are probably already tired of the election coverage, but we're hoping people stick it out and ask the these presidential




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Finally: Environment Plays a Role in a Presidential Election

For the first time in my lifetime the environment is a top-tier issue in a presidential race, as was clearly in evidence in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. It was next to impossible for a candidate to have any sort of press event




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The TH Interview: Gary Hirshberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm (Part One)

Before Stonyfield Farm was a $325 million company, Gary Hirshberg was milking the cows and trying to get the bills paid. Now, as the largest organic yogurt-maker, he is fulfilling the original mission: make money and save the world. From milk cows to




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The TH Interview: Gary Hirshberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm (Part Two)

Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here




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Mion's Floodgate Takes Recycling In Its Stride

Two years ago when Mion footwear won an ecodesign award we described them as something "you might expect the Jetsons to wear on the weekends." And we wanted the company to be more overt in their green product design. With their new models they've




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University of New Hampshire is First School in US to Run Off Landfill Gas

A few months back we heard about Middlebury College's efforts to green their electricity and heating. Well, over at the University of New Hampshire they're




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Helly Hansen's New Ekolab Line is Clean and Durable

If any of you have backpacked the Presidential Range and Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, you know that the weather can change in a hot minute. Over the past 20 years, we’ve hiked through hail, lightening storms, and




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Creating Energy from Landfill Gas Is Far From Myth

Video profile of University of New Hampshire Ecoline™ project. Video credit:UNH and Waste Management.The beginning of a new decade reminds us to also look back at the past 10 years to see how everything from daily tasks to new technologies have evolved.




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Winters Were Colder in Your Parents' Day: New England Trees Get 10 Days More Growing Season Than Pre-1970

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Flip Side of Local - New Hampshire Sees Opportunity In Food Self-Sufficiency

University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally-produced food system. The good news: farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' of food -




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Photo of the Day: An Ice Climber Ascending the Shoestring Gully in New Hampshire

As the temperature drops in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, locals bundle up and get excited. While most wait for the first snow to cover the ski runs, others hold out for those first cold nights to freeze the area's waterfalls.




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Stop the presses for Labor Day

The North American holiday actually has its roots in a newspaper strike in Toronto, a fight over toxic working conditions.




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Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!

Today is Canadian Thanksgiving, a mysterious holiday that Americans are either surprised to learn exists or assume is the same as theirs.




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Today is Boxing Day, a great idea that turned into wretched excess

Most of the english speaking world has the day off today, in what started as a tradition of helping and sharing, and ended up at the mall.




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Energy News Recap: Hurricanes Versus Wind Farms; Nuclear Power & Childhood Leukemia; More

Beyond the headline, a really great overview of how globalization may well be entirely reshaped by energy constraints, for the betterment of local economies in places where manufacturing has been outsourced for years.




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When Governments and Activists Say "Resilience", They Do Not Mean the Same Thing

Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins sets out what Resilience 2.0 might look like.




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Sustainability Lessons from the Great Depression

A pioneer of peak oil community action sits down to talk with her mother about a previous crisis and how she survived it.




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Panic Buying of Fuel Grips UK Motorists

Panic by UK motorists causes fuel supplies to run dry, all because of a few careless words from the Prime Minister.




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Why There's No New Coal When Reserves Run Out & How That Could Help Biofuels

New research rewrites our understanding of why no new coal deposits develop -- but offers hope for post-coal energy solutions.




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Is Peak Oil Really a Thing of the Past?

George Monbiot claims that peak oil is no longer a major concern. Is he right?




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Can a Bike-Powered Blender Really Change the World?

Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.




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Richard Heinberg's Tiny Fibonacci Studio

Author, activist and post-carbon rabble rouser Richard Heinberg is also a dabbler in green building. Take a tour of his tiny hand-built backyard studio.




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Is The Post-Fossil Fuel Economy Already Emerging?

Growing bike sales, a boom in sharing, and an interest in growing your own food are ust some of the signs that we could be moving beyond our current energy paradigm. Add your own to the list.




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Rap News video presents our energy crises, global warming denial, Elon Musk on Mars, and our #1 energy solution

This rapper nails it, imho.




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Does Peak Helium Mean We Should Stop With The Big Balloons Already?

We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.




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Have we reached Peak Curtains? IKEA's head of sustainability thinks so.

We have lots of stuff, it's just unevenly distributed.




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Sooner than you think? A prediction that electric cars will cause the next oil crisis

It actually won't take that much to reduce oil demand enough to cause serious trouble.




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Are we approaching Peak Oil Demand? Not if the oil industry can help it

Peak oil used to be about running out of supply; now some think that we will run out of demand. The oil companies will ensure that we never run out of demand.




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Flecks of "solar glitter" can make almost anything solar powered

The tiny, flexible solar cells can be integrated into objects of any shape or size.




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This solar panel produces up to 5 liters of drinking water per day from the air

Zero Mass Water's SOURCE device is a rooftop solar device that produces water instead of just electricity.




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Solar paint produces hydrogen from sunlight and water vapor

The unique paint could provide clean power to homes at a low cost.




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Solar-activated canopy creates interactive environment that responds to light (Video)

This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.




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IKEA is now selling solar systems, no Allen key required

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.




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This concentrated solar power plant is totally tubular & easily transported

The HELIOtube is a radical departure from conventional CSP technology, as it is based around tubes of inflatable plastic film.