Sustainability
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The Valentine's chocolates I want
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary &bull 3 Hours Ago
Organic, Fair Trade, locally sourced these chocolates fit the sustainable requirements our food blogger expects and are absolutely delicious, too. Over the weekend, I was at C19 in Philadelphia, an Italian restaurant that follows the Slow Food philosophy. My friend… Full Story »
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Electric bikeshare coming to San Francisco
SmartPlanet News &bull Yesterday
New York Times reports that the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency will use federal funds to assist the local nonprofit City Carshare with implementing e-bikes into its existing carsharing program, where you pay-per-use. Transportation Sustainability Research Center at University of… Full Story »
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- Transportation
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Guy'S Hoodie Has Sustainable Style
The Alternative Consumer &bull Yesterday
Show your boy in the hood some eco love BUC's hoodie is made with genuine earth-friendly values and affordable style: 100% certified lightweight organic cotton low impact dyes (choose either grey or black) printed with water-based PVC-free inks Fair Trade… Full Story »
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Vaho Turns Old Advertising Banners Into Chic Recycled Bags
Inhabitat &bull Yesterday
Vaho Trashion gives old PVC advertising banners a second life by transforming them into quirky and colorful recycled bags. This stylish baggage company sources their products by collecting old banners hung up around the streets of Barcelona, demonstrating their committment… Full Story »
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Chile's Rodrigo Alonso Creates Brilliant N+ew Lights from Recycled E-Waste
Inhabitat &bull Yesterday
A great sustainable feature that will bring a sparkle to any room, these N+ew Lights by Rodrigo Alonso have been created with a rotomolding technique employing e-waste. The Chilean designer gets his raw materials from local recycling company, Recycla, who… Full Story »
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- Recycling
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Paul Elkin's Mobile Homeless Shelter Is a Refuge Packed with Sustainable Features
Inhabitat &bull Yesterday
Designing a shelter to meet the diverse needs of the homeless population is a challenge, but Paul Elkin's fantastic concept makes due as both a mobile home and a store packed with goods to help support a livelihood. The inventor… Full Story »
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- Population
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Goat Farming, Not All Lollipops and Rainbows
Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles &bull Yesterday
Even though I have been talking about kidding in my blog, things just don't always go as you would like them to. Something just happened here at Stony Knolls Farm that I thought I should share with you. My next blog will go back to kidding. Every now and then a goat has to be culled. Today, our dear Carlotta had to go to "freezer camp". Because of our appreciation of God's creatures and our love for… Full Story »
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The Shed Transforms a Historic Industrial Building into an Efficient Modern Home
Inhabitat &bull Yesterday
The Shed by Richard Peters Associates is a historic adaptive reuse project that celebrates sustainable and efficient living. Located outside Sydney, Australia just steps from the Coogee beach, the industrial structure has been transformed into an open air home which… Full Story »
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Ancient Lake Vostok Reached By Scientists
ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip &bull Yesterday
Categories: Entertainment, Pop Culture. This, according to a Russian news agency that reported that the two-decade long effort finally achieved its mission. The Daily Mail reports that geothermal heat under the ice keeps the lake liquid, and its conditions are… Full Story »
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Surprise Visit
Little Homestead in the City &bull Yesterday
On Friday, we received a call from a legislative assistant and were surprised to find out that a California State Senator had requested to stop by over the weekend for a quick visit. The assistant remarked that the Senator had heard so many good things about us--and he wasn't… Full Story »
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- Agriculture
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Santa Monica's new Sustainability Bill of Rights
green LA girl &bull Yesterday
Can a city claim green rights? That was the hot topic of discussion at the latest LA Bioneers meeting, which brought local eco-concerned citizens together on a late Tuesday night. Why? The Santa Monica City Council just voted late last… Full Story »
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Obama Administration releases new protection plan for United States National Forests
The Alternative Consumer &bull Yesterday
New plans for the protection of the country's National Forests have finally been drafted. Many conservationists say that fresh ideas are long overdue considering the fact that the same mitigation and maintenance plans have been in effect since 1982. Creating… Full Story »
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Fashion Week Season Kicks Off In Europe With An Artistic Edge
Ecosalon &bull Yesterday
With fashion week season slowly melting away the deep winter freeze here in Europe, it is promising to feel a bit of stylistic heat from the recent runway shows in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. Autumn/Winter 2013 might be the last thing on our minds as we struggle to channel coral-hued resort ensembles, but looking ahead can be a good thing when so many creative dimensions are at play. The sculptural experimentation seen on the catwalks during January and early February have demonstrated, perhaps, that smaller European design houses know how to take risks with conceptually bold approaches to their… Full Story »
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Home of the World's Largest Mural in Mexico City Gets a Sustainable Facelift
Inhabitat &bull Yesterday
Read the rest of Home of the World's Largest Mural in Mexico City Gets a Sustainable Facelift Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable development", Art, bnkr arquitectura, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Daylighting, Diego Rivera, eco design, existing… Full Story »
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Solar-powered car making a round-the-world journey
SmartPlanet News &bull Yesterday
The SolarWorld Gran Turismo (GT), from the U.S.' The two-seater, powered by roof-integrated solar cells, was built by SolarWorld in collaboration with Bochum University of Applied Sciences in Germany. The GT is set to break the "Guinness Book of World… Full Story »
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Sustainable Wooden Baby Gear at Affordable Prices
Green Baby Guide &bull Yesterday
While we haven't yet discovered a ceramic crib, we are happy to report that there are some unexpectedly eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable pieces of green baby gear. Rebecca and I both focused on minimizing with our babies to avoid being… Full Story »
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Traveling Choices
Tiny Choices &bull Yesterday
I flew out to San Diego last week for a conference on Sustainable Remediation. It was great! I love this group of experts who are so committed and engaged in implementing sustainable protocols and methodologies into remediation projects. I had… Full Story »
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Young French voters and the issues that concern them
SmartPlanet News &bull Yesterday
PARIS -French youth join other Europeans in worrying about the economy and employment as the presidential vote approaches this spring. With polls still unclear about a frontrunner between socialist Francois Hollande and conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, French students talk to SmartPlanet about how they… Full Story »
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Hiber-Nation: Hoodies
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary &bull Yesterday
Score brownie points with both Mother Nature and your granny by donning a stylish and sustainable hooded sweatshirt at home this week in observance of WWF Canada's National Sweater Day. A very happy Monday (or not-so-happy for you New England… Full Story »
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Urgent: Throw These Cooking Oils in the Trash
Healthy and Green Living &bull Yesterday
Hello, I saw this on Care2 and thought you'd like it as well. Care2 is the largest and most trusted information and action site for people who care to make a difference in their lives and the world. But this… Full Story »
