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Brooklyn Non-Profit Team Turns Abandoned Rooftop Into Working Farm and Shelter for Refugees
Green Lifestyle  (tags: architecture, conservation, energy, eco-friendly, environment, ecosystems, design, goodnews, greenliving, green, humans, recycling, sustainable, protection, society, Sustainabililty, technology, home, interesting )

Erik
- 95 days ago - babelgum.com
Terreform, a nonprofit architecture collective transforms the rooftop of a building in downtown Brooklyn into a shelter and farm for urban refugees- people displaced by the mortgage crisis.
A Car That Could Shrink to Fit in Your Pocket?
Environment  (tags: CO2emissions, climate-change, ecosystems, conservation, green, pollution, Sustainabililty )

Erik
- 126 days ago - babelgum.com
If there weren't any pesky practical limitations, how would you change the world? What about cars that could shrink to fit in your pocket? We could turn our parking lots into water parks. GOOD director Max Joseph explains.
Ugly Vacant Lot in Brooklyn Is Transformed Into Sustainable & Fun Putt-Putt Course By Local Artists
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, design, greenliving, humans, happy, good news, golf, reuse, new york, recycling, Sustainabililty, world )

Erik
- 142 days ago - babelgum.com
The putting lot is a parking lot transformed into a nine-hole miniature golf course in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The theme of the course is "neighborhood sustainability" which encompasses both environmental sustainability and the sustainability of communities.
If We Are Going to Have the Death Penalty, Shouldn't We At Least Have Their Organs Donated
Society & Culture  (tags: death, culture, crime, rights, politics, law, government, interesting )

Erik
- 160 days ago - babelgum.com
In 2008, 37 death row inmates were executed. None of their organs was donated. Now consider that there are currently 2,775 people on the waiting list for a heart transplant. In this GOOD Provocation, Graeme Wood makes the case for harvesting healthy organ
We CAN Take Setps to Improve the Overfishing Crisis and Protect Our Oceans
Environment  (tags: climate, animals, climate-change, ClimateChange, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, GoodNews, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, oceans, humans, protection, wildlife, water )

Erik
- 160 days ago - babelgum.com
What does the future hold for fish? Rupert Murray, director of the movie, travels to Australia and dives to the SS Yongala shipwreck, an area which has been protected for over 30 yrs and which now thrives with marine life.
Brooklyn Residents Revitalize Neighborhood By Re-Using Old Dumpster as New Swimming Pools
Green Lifestyle  (tags: conservation, design, greenliving, recycling, interesting, humans, water )

Erik
- 165 days ago - babelgum.com
From smelly and ugly to fresh and entertaining: Macro-Sea Pools turns three large trash dumpsters into a swimming pool in an empty Brooklyn parking lot. This adaptive re-use project presents the neighborhood with new recreational opportunities.
The Power Of Consumers to Help Solve the Overfishing Crisis
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, endangered, ecosystems, animals, habitat, oceans, politics, Sustainabililty, wildlife, humans )

Erik
- 174 days ago - babelgum.com
How can fish consumers and the people that supply them have a positive or negative effect on the sea? Journalists confront posh Nobu sushi chef with DNA evidence of use of endangered bluefin tuna.
New Organic Rooftop Gardens in NYC
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, garden, greenliving, green, goodnews, healthy, organic, sustainable, Sustainabililty, home, food, environment )

Erik
- 183 days ago - babelgum.com
Annie Novak and Ben Flanner have been farming the rooftop of a Brooklyn warehouse for a month and a half now. The 6,000 square-foot farm has over 30 different varieties of vegetables. Nearby restaurants have caught on to the idea.
Extinction Sucks - Sea Turtles
Animals  (tags: wildanimals, wildlife, law, wildanimals, protection, humans, habitat, ethics, extinction, environment, endangered, suffering )

Erik
- 186 days ago - babelgum.com
Sea turtles have swum the world's oceans for over 100 million years - they are one of nature's truly heroic survivors. However in just the last 200 years human intervention has had an appalling affect on turtle numbers.
Fishermen: Heros and Villans in the Overfishing Crisis
Animals  (tags: wildlife, slaughter, wildanimals, killed, environment, humans, killing, wildanimals, ethics, conservation, animalrights, extinction, endangered, law, habitat, society, protection )

Erik
- 189 days ago - budurl.com
What does the future hold for fishermen? In the overfishing crisis, fishermen are the front lines. This profession displays the best and the worst actions of man in harvesting the seas.
 
 
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