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You CAN Be Too Thin: Apple Dumps Sustainable Design Principle For a Few Millimeters and A Smooth Bottom For Design Fetishists To Fondle

In cars, houses, furniture and electronics, The trend was toward increasing repairability and simplifying recycling. Apple goes its own way.




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How to choose green furniture

Buying green furniture can be tricky, so we've lined up some tips to help you furnish your house.




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Cradle to Cradle products could be key to a healthy house

C2C products were featured in the Unity Home seen at Greenbuild.




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Transformable water bottle supports clean drinking water projects

Meet Dopper, a Cradle to Cradle water bottle company that’s bringing clean water to Nepal.




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A bark shingle is very first Cradle to Cradle Platinum product

It is hard to imagine a greener product than natural tree bark.




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New Japanese House by Alts Design Office is influenced by traditional design

It is all about the progression through the spaces.




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RIP Roger Taillibert, architect of the Big O

People have complained about his building since they started pouring the concrete.




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All over the world, engineers declare climate and biodiversity emergency

This is turning into a really big bandwagon.




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RIP Ted Cullinan, "an architect who made the world better"

He was a pioneer of sustainable design.




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How our thinking changed in 2019: Upfront Carbon Emissions

Nobody cared much about this a few years ago. They do now.




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The prefab dream: Talented architects working with a great builder offering original designs

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes




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How to water houseplants correctly

Watering problems are the leading cause of poor health for houseplants; here’s how to give them what they need.




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8 of the easiest houseplants to care for

Looking for indoor plants that are hard to kill? These green troopers are resilient and don't demand too much from their keepers.




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How to make your jack-o-lantern last longer

Carved pumpkins are susceptible to rot, but there are ways to stave it off.




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Turn plastic waste into spooky Halloween decorations

You'll be surprised at the decorative potential contained within the recycling bin.




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Every house needs a chalkboard

It's a powerful organizational tool that pulls a household together.




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A critique of minimalism

Or why the trend toward simplicity is not all it's cracked up to be.




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12 groups of companion plants to make your vegetable garden thrive

Some plants help each other enormously, while others hinder their neighbors – use this cheat sheet to ensure harmony in the vegetable plot.




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Doctors are prescribing houseplants for anxiety, depression, and loneliness

A medical practice in Manchester, England is giving patients indoor plants to help boost wellness.




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Why succulents make such good houseplants

Learn about the advantages of indoor succulents, plus everything you need to know about their light and watering needs.




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9 plants to grow for your medicine cabinet

From sleep aids to pain relievers, here's how to grow your own natural remedies.




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5 forgiving houseplants that don't ask for much

Perfect for beginners, brown thumbs, or people on the go, these easy indoor plants don't mind low light, low humidity, or irregular watering.




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How to care for houseplants during the winter

Colder weather provides some unique challenges for indoor plants; here's how to how to help them get through it.




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Put a houseplant on your desk to decrease anxiety significantly

A new study reveals stress-reducing benefits for office workers when even just viewing a small plant on their desk.




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10 houseplant decor ideas for big impact

You don't have to have an entire garden room to make a statement with your indoor plants.




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14 houseplants perfect for Valentine's Day

From love potion plants and heart-shaped leaves to love goddess blooms, these plants are like a valentine from Mother Nature.




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20 of the most practical plants you can grow

Even if doomsday never comes, these 20 plants are some of the most practical you can grow.




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Gogoro launches the VIVA, a lighter, cheaper, electric scooter with a swappable battery

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.




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The e-bike revolution advances with the Swytch conversion kit

There are some significant advantages to an affordable kit like this.




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Want to buy a high-tech, low-carbon electric vehicle company? Organic Transit is for sale.

Why aren't people lining up for this enclosed solar powered e-cargo tricycle? It pushed every button.




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The RadRover Step-Thru could be the perfect e-bike that anyone can ride anywhere

Roll over everything and get on and off easily on this powerful fatbike.




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Jeep introduces a big electric mountain bike

Bill Murray looks like he is enjoying the ride. Others might go a bit faster.




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Does recycling waste precious water?

Photo credit: jcheng @ Flickr




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GreenCookingPots Offer Le Creuset Designer Style Without the Designer Price Tag

Thanks to the folks at Daily Candy for this awesome tip! With the holidays coming up, and that inevitable office party or family gathering, maybe it's time to freshen up your kitchen




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Scrap Art Rocks: Bang a (Recycled) Gong, Get It On

With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged




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Graypants, the Kings of Cardboard, Move into Metal

We have been fans of Seattle's Graypants for a while; Seth, Jonathan and Jon "strive to come up with designs and ideas that are thoughtful and have an impact, whether it be furniture, lighting, architecture or graphics." Most of the work we have shown




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Hungary Declares State of Emergency As Toxic Industrial Sludge Covers Villages (Photos)

Four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing in Hungary as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. A




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Hungary Toxic Sludge Flood Reaches Danube River

The flood of toxic red sludge, which burst forth from a containment pond in Ajka, Hungary and covered several villages earlier in the week, reached a branch of the River Danube today. According to the head of the




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Vedanta Resources' Orissa Bauxite Refinery Expansion Blocked by Indian Government

Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the




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Alcoa, Major World Polluter, Brings Sustainable Transport to Bauxite Mine & Feeds Energy into Grid

It may sound like an oxymoron, bringing sustainable practices to mining operations, but unless we all stop consuming resources immediately, mining is also not going anywhere. So this is good news: since 2007, Alcoa's Jamalco




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Third Time Lucky, the NeoRomántico Bench Goes Cradle to Cradle (Photos)

Santa & Cole takes its environmental policy one step further by obtaining the Cradle to Cradle Certification (C2C) for its 100% Aluminum NeoRomántico Liviano Bench




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Zero Energy Christmas Decoration Lights Up Under Existing Streetlamps

How about using the light from already existing street lamps to spark off the festive season? Here are some off-the-grid parasite lamps so to speak, that look good by day!




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Micro Compact Home Dropped By Helicopter Onto Site in Switzerland

You can't call an aluminum guest house dropped by helicopter green, but you sure can call it cute.




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Haunting Photos of the Hungarian Town a Toxic Sludge Spill Painted Red

The toxic red line that runs through this town -- as photographed by Palíndromo Mészáros -- is shocking evidence of what can go wrong.




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Someday we might get 100% of our aluminum from recycling (using only 5% of the energy)

Recycling aluminum uses about 95% less energy than making new one from bauxite ore, which compares very favorably with other types of recycling.




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Women's personal care the green way

Personal care is a big subject, but we'll focus on caring for our general appearance: Cleansing and cosmetics, hair care, skin care, makeup, hair removal and, of course, that time of the month most women deal




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Is using recycled aluminum sustainable and green? A new book raises questions

Yes, but we still have a problem, says Carl A. Zimrig in a new book "Aluminum Upcycled: sustainable design in historical perspective." Because we are using too much of the stuff.




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Japanese aluminum company fabricated data about strength, durability

Another reason that we have to use less of the stuff.




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Dirty coal-fired aluminum gets a boost with new Trump tariff

But hey, it's all in the interest of national security; Americans have to be ready to defend themselves from Canada.




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Another reason not to drink beer in cans: the aluminum

Recycling isn't enough when demand for aluminum is soaring. We have to use less of the stuff and eliminate single-use packaging.