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10 Tips for Creating a Zero Waste Home
I do my part to recycle and bring my own bags for purchases, but I am far from producing zero waste. While lugging multiple recycling bins to the curbside every week it has occurred me that I have a l…
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If 7 Billion People Lived Like… (Infographic)
By Michael Graham Richard, TreeHugger Tim de Chant has created a great infographic that shows the ecological footprint that would be used if the whole world's population (estimated at 7 billion) l…
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Can Your Child Love Nature Too Much?
By Jensen Montambault, The Nature Conservancy Raising a young conservationist is a whole lot more than making bird feeders out of used plastic bottles and foisting them on grandparents and unsuspec…
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Italian Researchers Learn How Birds Fly Together
As flocks of starlings descend on Rome, Italian researchers study how huge numbers of birds are able to move simultaneously. Science News by NewsLook var nl_rand = "eGeevlv3nHZ9SyAH", NewsLo…
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Electric Reefs Help Save Bali’s Marine Life
A Disneyland of manmade reefs off a Bali beach is helping save the tropical island's marine life. The reef system has been created by using electricity to "grow" coral on steel structures. Scien…
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Imagine a Unified Field
Everything in nature is evolving to a higher level of existence. Even without trying or thinking, just by virtue of our existence itself, we are evolving to a higher level of awareness. When we are …
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Is The Environmental Movement Dead?
“The biggest problem with the environmental movement is the environmentalists.” This statement was posed to a panel of noted environmentalists at the Omega Institute’s Design By Nature: Preserving…
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An Eco-Wish For Graduates
My son graduated college last weekend. Sitting in the audience among a newly-minted sea of graduates and their families, I listened to speaker after speaker impart pearls of wisdom to the graduates. T…
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Omega Institute’s Greenest Living Building
What would happen if you decided to take on the challenge to create the greenest building in the U.S.? That is just what the non-profit, Omega Institute of Holistic Studies decided to do. They spent t…
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Living in Harmony with Nature (video)
This brief video from the World Wildlife Foundation points out clearly how the consumption demands of rich nations are leading to deforestation and other upsets to the natural world. Everybody suffers…
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on 8 Clever Uses for Plastic Straws
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Marvelous, thanks!. :)
on 14 Ways to Use Spinach (Slideshow)
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Very creative. Something to do with the kids on a rainy afternoon! Thanks for the article.
on 8 Clever Uses for Plastic Straws
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Thank you.
on 8 Clever Uses for Plastic Straws
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Excellent ideas! I use salt every winter as a snow melter and de-icer. It works amazingly well!
on 24 Surprising Uses for Salt
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