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Cave Homes - Living in Caves
Green Lifestyle  (tags: architecture, coolstuff, eco-friendly, environment, family, greenliving, home, humans, interesting, sustainable )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - thedailygreen.com
People have been hollowing out caves to make their homes for many thousands of years. We all need shelter from the elements, and it didn't take long for our ancestors to run out of available real estate in natural caves. In certain parts of the world, it
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ENERGY-DENMARK: Samsø Island, Beyond Fantasy
Green Lifestyle  (tags: environment, greenliving, green, energy, Sustainabililty, recycling, humans, interesting )

Cal
- 4 days ago - ipsnews.net
On the Danish island of Samsø, a model of energy self-sufficiency, even cow's milk helps reduce emissions of climate changing gases.
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Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic!-Please Take Action!!!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: food, healthy, organic, technology, sustainable, humans )

Tierney
- 5 days ago - food.change.org
To tell the USDA that you want the National Organic Standards Board to take a strong stand against the use of nanotechnology in organic food.
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Old Red Goes Green: Recycled Wall Brick Built to Save Water
Green Lifestyle  (tags: water, technology, sustainable, recycling, humans, interesting, greenproducts, greenliving, environment, eco-friendly, conservation, design, architecture )

Daphna
- 6 days ago - dornob.com
It might look like your typical old red clay house-building brick on one side, but turn it over and there is a shift that hints at a deeper design change - one that is eco-friendly but also expressive in a way that most walls or brick are not.
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Eating It? BPA Found in Surprising Places
Green Lifestyle  (tags: BPA, canned food, cans, linings, plastic, additive, health, chemical, environment, humans )

Road
- 7 days ago - care2.com
In Japan major manufacturers voluntarily changed their can linings in 1997 to cut or eliminate the use of BPA because of concerns about health effects. A 2003 Japanese study found that the levels of the chemical in subjects' urine dropped by 50 percent.
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The 411 on Toilet Paper
Green Lifestyle  (tags: shopping, interesting, humans, green, environment, eco-friendly, conservation, ecosystems, water )

Daphna
- 8 days ago - earth911.com
George Costanza of Seinfeld once said that toilet paper hasn't changed in his lifetime and probably wouldn't change in the next 50,000 years. While it's that true toilet paper as we know it today hasn't changed much, our consumption may have. In fact, the
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Green and Confused: How We Bury Whole Forests Each Year
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green, greenliving, recycling, humans, conservation, home )

Cal
- 9 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
What happens when you dump your old kitchen cabinets
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Plastic: Not-So-Fantastic
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, family, food, greenproducts, health, healthy, home, humans, organic )

Daphna
- 9 days ago - lime.com
Most kitchens have a jumble of mismatched plastic containers gathered in some far-flung cupboard. While it might be difficult (if not impossible) to do away with all of them, keeping an organic kitchen definitely calls for reducing your use of these items
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Wash Your Clothes By Pedaling Your Bike (With Video)
Green Lifestyle  (tags: children, clothing, coolstuff, design, eco-friendly, family, greenliving, greenproducts, home, humans, recycling, sustainable, technology )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - treehugger.com
You don't need electricity to do the laundry. It's as easy as riding a bike. My wife's 90-year-old aunt still washes her laundry by hand, and dries it with a wringer. God bless her. But if you're a little busier, you can keep you
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Whole Tree Architecture: Deep Roots, Strong Branches
Green Lifestyle  (tags: architecture, coolstuff, eco-friendly, family, greenliving, humans, recycling, sustainable, home )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - naturalhomemagazine.com
When selecting trees from their southwest Wisconsin property to use in the construction of their new home, farmers Marcia Halligan and Steven Adams passed over the stately oaks and the sturdy maples, choosing instead the weak and diseased trees. They did
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Growing Rice
Green Lifestyle  (tags: family, food, garden, green, health, home, humans, interesting, organic, water )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - motherearthnews.com
Undoubtedly, rice is the most important grain in the world. Billions of people depend on it for sustenance. Growing it in the backyard, though, is challenging -- but not impossible. You'll have the best luck with it if you live in the South (Texas, Louis
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How to: Recycle a Rubber Hose Into a Cheap & Comfy Chair
Green Lifestyle  (tags: coolstuff, design, eco-friendly, family, garden, green, greenliving, home, humans, recycling )

Daphna
- 13 days ago - dornob.com
Clean modern lines, wood and metal supports ... one could almost imagine this being sold at your local contemporary furniture store for thousands of dollars. Except: that comfortable-looking lining threaded between the structural frame is an ordinary, eve
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7 Car-Free Cities
Green Lifestyle  (tags: CO2emissions, conservation, eco-friendly, environment, family, goodnews, greenliving, healthy, humans, society, travel, world )

Daphna
- 13 days ago - mnn.com
It's hard to believe that before the early 20th century, almost every city in the world was "car-free." Zoom ahead 100 years later, and you have to do some real digging to escape the army of cars now clogging the planet's roads and highways. Sure, there a
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Recycling Project: Freecycling
Green Lifestyle  (tags: clothing, eco-friendly, family, green, greenliving, humans )

Daphna
- 14 days ago - lime.com
The 19th-century English decorative artist William Morris once said, "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." And yet, inevitably, our homes seem to fill up with things that are neither useful nor beautif
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Multipurpose Coffee Grounds
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, environment, food, green, greenliving, home, humans, recycling )

Daphna
- 14 days ago - naturalhomemagazine.com
Every day, people enjoy roughly 1.4 billion cups of coffee. That's a lot of coffee. More importantly, all those grounds add up in landfills across the world. But coffee grounds offer more then just a fantastic and addictive drink; use the grounds around y
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