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Ecotricity launches "vegan electricity" tariff

Many vegans don't realize that there's 'meat' in their electricity supply.




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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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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.




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French solar roadway declared "a complete flop"

Sometimes we should just let a bad idea die.




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Iceland asks tourists to drink tap water instead of bottled

After all, who wouldn't want a glass of "pure glacial water filtered through lava"?




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In Rome, recycle plastic bottles for transit fares

Thirty bottles will buy you a ticket on the subway or bus.




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Another One Bites The Dust: Bucky Fuller's Union Tank Car Dome

It was, in 1958, the worlds largest clear span. The Union Tank Car Building was 384 feet in diameter, 128 feet high. "It was just big and magnificent," Fuller biographer Jay Baldwin said to Kansas City Star reporter Mike Hendricks. "It was a




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Quote of the Day: Elizabeth Kolbert on Buckminster Fuller

In anticipation of a new retrospective at the Whitney, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, " Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the New Yorker, quoting Fuller about the need for innovation:




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Quote of the Day: Bucky Fuller on How We Live

Allison Arieff reviews the Buckminster Fuller retrospective at the Whitney. She writes "His brain was constantly consumed with the serious issues of his day —




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"Mr. Fuller, Why would you build a round house?"

Of course, Bucky answered, "Why not?" On Pi Day, we look at the Dymaxion and other round houses."




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"Eco-Luxurious" domes blend harmoniously with Quebec landscape

Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects figure out how to square the circle.




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There's nothing wrong with repetitive cooking

Much of the world eats the same thing every day. Why are we so preoccupied with variety?




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Quorn introduces carbon footprint labels

Every company should have to do this– more useful information that consumers need.




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Learn the footprint of your meat consumption with the Omni Calculator

Some useful tools for working on a 1.5 degree lifestyle.




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Photographer’s tribute to his dog is heartbreakingly beautiful

The story combines the beauty of nature, wanderlust, and the deep love that can exist between human and dog.




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Penguin-protecting sheepdog stars in movie 'Oddball and the Penguins'

The real life romance sparked while making a merry romp of this endangered species protection success story could be the sequel!




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Eye On Earth Connects the Dots So People Can See Environmental Issues

A heat wave vulnerability map goes viral, boosting interactive technology that helps make important environmental data accessible.




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Underwater Robot Maps Antarctic Ice in 3D

The robot was part of a bigger mapping project that reveals the overall volume of ice in Antarctica, not just the ice cover.




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MIT creates super accurate solar potential map of Cambridge

The mapping technology will eventually be used to get precise solar power potential information for any location around the world.




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Hypnotically beautiful real-time wind map of Earth created by supercomputers

The wind has never been this beautiful...




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Satellite maps show hidden geothermal energy sites around the world

A satellite that ran out of fuel two years ago is now giving scientists a huge wealth of data.




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Revolve Water Bottle Filters Tap Water While You Drink

The Revolve Tap Water Filtration system is an easy way to start choosing to drink tap water over bottled water.




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Beetle-Inspired Design Uses Old Plastic Bottles to Pull Water from the Air

A concept water bottle pulls water from the air like the Namib Desert Beetle.




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Fracking explosion sends "Frac Stack" flying [PHOTOS]

Last night, on her show, Rachel Maddow showed some incredible photos of an explosive accident at a Texas fracking site. After seeing the photos, you'll be surprised to learn that thankfully no one was killed.




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Self-filtering water bottle also acts as a flashlight

The ÖKO Odyssey water bottle actually has six functions!




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Yikes! California's extreme drought could last "a decade or more", 2014 driest year in a century

California has been going through a drought for about 3 years now, with 2013 being the driest year on record.




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Stash this collapsible water bottle in your pocket and turn back to the tap

It's time we made water bottles part of our every day carry (EDC) kit. This handy little bottle squishes down small enough to go everywhere you do.




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5 nuts not grown in California

National almond, walnut and pistachio crops are very thirsty, and predominantly grown in drought-stricken California; if you’re looking for alternatives, consider these.




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Investors predict "start of the end" of coal in Asia

And it couldn't come a moment too soon.




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Severe drought means Belgium may not have enough potatoes for its famous frites

Lack of rain has reduced potato crop yields to a third of what they usually are.




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New York's "radical traffic experiment" is based on a very successful Toronto prototype

What happens when you restrict cars? Transit use, cycling and walking increase dramatically.




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10th-century Anglo Saxon potion kills MRSA superbug

A microbiologist and an Anglo Saxon scholar decided to test a recipe from an Old English medical compendium called Bald's Leechbook, what they found surprised everyone.




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Nobody is taking away your air conditioner; there are lots of alternatives to HFCs

Only in America are they hard to find. How does that happen?




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The "Stopping EPA Overreach Act" redefines what a pollutant is and stops regulation of greenhouse gases

This is beyond climate denial, it's science denial




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What flat-earthers have got right

A lot of people believe the Earth is flat. It's silly ... or is it?




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Pesticidal Proteins (Bt) From GM Corn Plants Are Now Common In Midwest Streams

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land




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The Rush-Bagot Treaty that demilitarized the Great Lakes is 200 years old today

It led to a series of other agreements that protected and cleaned up the Great Lakes environment




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Yeti robot scans polar ice to warn researchers of dangerous crevasses

The autonomous robot allows scientists to more safely study polar enviroments and also collects valuable information on ice conditions for climate research.




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Robotic ocean gliders discover new answers to why polar ice is melting

The robots have gathered new information that will help scientists determine how fast the ice is melting.




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Scott's 103 year old prefab cabin in Antarctica is lovingly restored

After ten years of work, the Antarctic Heritage Trust has done an amazing job of restoring and preserving.




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Antarctica has never been this hot: The record was broken twice last week

Another signs that the poles are warming fast.




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Photos of icebergs reveal their majestic beauty

Plus a bounty of facts about these freewheeling islands of ice.




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Extraordinary photos from an Antarctic expedition

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is on a 3-month Antarctic expedition, supporting an international proposal for the world’s largest protected area.




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'The Game Changers' documentary challenges assumptions about meat, protein and strength

It turns out you can still be a high-performing athlete on a plant-based diet.




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It's wood. It's Passive House. It's the "Goldilocks density."

Boston is getting a "CLT Cellular Passive House Demonstration Project" that pushes every TreeHugger button.




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No plastic 2020: The reason I am giving up all plastic bottles

I don't buy many plastic bottles, but the ones that I do will take some creative workarounds to avoid.




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How I gave up plastic bottles for shampoo, dish soap, and rinse aid

I tasked myself with buying no plastic bottles for the year; here's how it's going so far.




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Super-yacht is powered by liquid hydrogen. How "eco" is that?

In two words: It's not.




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"Pay-As-You-Throw" Trash Metering Cuts Landfill Waste by 50% in a Month

Some places have looked at paying people to recycle, but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead. When the UK talked about implementing a "pay-as-you-throw" scheme for trash, our readers were




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Residents Band Together to Protect Maine’s Woods from Development

Picture having a massive, beautiful expanse of woods near your home. You go there to hike, fish, hunt -- just to enjoy nature. Now picture a highway running through it.