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Small 323 sq. ft. apartment is stylishly redesigned for travelers

A tiny apartment in a new tourist hotspot is remade with clever modern elements to maximize space.




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This year, America should turn out the lights in solidarity with Earth Hour, the climate and reality.

This year of all years, we should stand up and fight the climate change trolls.




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Leonardo DiCaprio Is Kids' Green Hero, Nicole Richie Taps Into Charity, and More

Photo via I Watch Stuff Leonardo DiCaprio is already a favorite with eco-minded like gals, like myself! Now the next generation are digging Leo and his big green heart. This Saturdays Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards will honor the actor/activist with




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Best of Green: Culture & Celebrity

The beauty of culture is it's more a part of your life than you know. Artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers can use their fame and star power to get the green message out in their favorite medium, whether its on a Web site, Twitter feed, book page,




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Best of Green: Culture & Celebrity (Slideshow)

We love seeing celebrities use their influence for good--especially when it's for the green good. With their fame and star power, they can encourage fans to eat less meat, cut their consumption, and pay attention to what's




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Harvesting Liberty: Short film explores reintroduction of industrial hemp to US

Industrial hemp farming could play a big role in providing economic stability in impoverished areas, creating jobs and businesses for veterans, and growing a sustainable and regenerative agriculture movement.




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The Lucky Penny: A small home in one tiny co-housing community (Video)

The themes of this stunning little house are copper, lots of natural light, and participation within an intentional tiny co-housing community.




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Couple converts forest fire lookout tower into lofty 388 sq. ft. tiny home (Video)

Typically used to spot forest fires, one couple turns a fire lookout station into a simple but beautiful off-grid home.




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Couple's mortgage-free lifestyle includes a van conversion & garage as home (Video)

This couple have found a balance between financial security and freedom, by renting out their house, living out of their renovated garage, and traveling in their van conversion.




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Upcycled Canning Jars Make Nifty Reusable Cups

Handmade by a canning expert, these down-home chic reusable cups are built to take the daily stresses that glasses are routinely subjected to.




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10 Cute Crafty Nautical Gifts on Etsy

From knots and yachts to anchors and orcas, maritime motifs have escaped the marina to be embraced by seafarers and landlubbers alike.




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I tried walking barefoot in New York City

I did it so you don't have to.




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Zero waste is a priority for Maori communities in New Zealand

A group called Para Kore has been working since 2009 to spread the message of waste reduction and diversion.




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It is time to hunker in the bunker? Or to think about resilience and sustainability?

The rich are different from you and me, they can just buy New Zealand.




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Florida's official culture of driving blames pedestrians (and cellphones) for "vast majority" of deaths

A Today Show bit today is perhaps the grossest example yet.




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Reformation offers eco-chic with celebrity appeal

Eco-conscious clothier Reformation has gained popularity with a number of celebrities.




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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Solar 'smart' greenhouses produce both clean electricity & food crops

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.




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These stylish beanbags are filled with 4,000 recycled plastic bottle caps

One design attempts to deal with the problem of plastic bottle caps -- which often get discarded rather than recycled.




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Amazing photos of high-density housing in Hong Kong

This is how you pack'em and stack'em.




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Photographer captures the tenacity of nature in Hong Kong

“Wild Concrete” reveals the unintentional greenery of urban environments through photography.




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Community Supported Chicken Keeping for Backyard Coops (Video)

I may have once mused on the environmental impact of my backyard chickens, but I have no doubt that, overall, keeping them has been both a wonderful experience and a significant contribution to improving our family's




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Exploring Community Resilience in Times of Rapid Change: Inspiring Animation (Video)

We live in turbulent times, but this beautiful animation offers a systemic approach to facing up to change.




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Ireland may make high visibility clothing mandatory for cyclists, pedestrians and dog-walkers

People are "risking their lives every winter by wearing dark clothing."




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Irish county becomes first in English speaking world to make Passive House standard mandatory

It may lead to as many as 20,000 passive houses being built over the next five years.




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People Provide Missing Piece in Biodiversity Puzzle

The head of a cooperative of honey harvesters, a park guide, and a doctor who uses a garden of medicinal plants to treat asthma and other ailments are




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City Bees Go to Church in London and Get Saved

The plight of the bumblebee is a matter of great concern. Their numbers are declining, some species are on the brink of extinction and colony collapse disorder has spread in the U.S. Albert Einstein may (or may not) have said




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Is New York City Running out of Space for Bees?

Two years after legalizing urban beekeeping New York City could be running out of space for bees.




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5 DIY beauty recipes using honey

Go beyond your morning toast with these sweet all-natural beauty hacks featuring one of our favorite ingredients.




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News Corporation Announces New Sustainability Targets for 2015 and Beyond

News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral.




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Bloomberg News Launches Sustainability Section

The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.




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New York Compost riffs on the city’s iconic muckrakers

The classic daily newspaper box gets updated by a New York artist.




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Coastal property values take a hit due to climate change

Why can't the Wall Street Journal call it what it is?




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Church in the Netherlands converted into transformer library: books by day, party room by night

"If knowledge has become a secular religion, public libraries are its parishes, mosques and synagogues."




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Daan Roosegaarde lights things up without electricity

Glow-in-the-dark wonders are "techno-poetry".




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A bike parking facility in Tilburg is even more beautiful than their bus station

It even has moving sidewalks for bikes. This is how you get people out of cars.




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Personal electric mobility is taking over Paris

Instead of banning these technologies, we have to figure out how to manage them. Because they are inevitable.




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8 Stylish Lights for Your Home at London Design Festival

Light up your life and your living room with gorgeous lights from the London Design Festival.




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Finnish Safety Agency recommends helmets and lights for old people using walkers

It is about time that people acknowledged that it's not just cyclists that hit their heads. Helmets for everybody!




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4 foes of frugality

Look out for these things if you want to save money and consume less.




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Reinvented Retro-Style Bicycle Rickshaw Gets 'Round

A modern but retro-flavored makeover for the endearing bicycle rickshaw by Filipino designer Kenneth Cobonpue.




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Typhoon Haiyan: 'State of calamity' in the Philippines, 10,000+ feared dead

Many feared the worst, and it seems like that's what we got.




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Our urban problems aren't caused by restrictions on density, but by inequality

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.




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It's time to get serious about dealing with cars and trucks in the city

In Toronto and New York, Vision Zero is just talk. It's time for action.