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18% of Grade Schools in Japan Feed Whale to Kids Photo via kasei.co.uk It turns out that a surprisingly high number of grade schools in Japan are serving their students more than just a well-rounded education. According to the results of a survey released today, whale meat is back on the menu at about a sixth of Japan's public elementary and junior-high schools... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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High Levels of Arsenic Found in Children's Urine, You'll Never Guess Where it Came From photo: Sara Novak A story reported in Grist and first published in the Salt Lake Tribune said that alarming amounts of arsenic were found in two Utah children's urine. The girl's urine tested 50 percent above what's considered safe and the boy's tested 75 percent above acceptable levels. The culprit turne... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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South Carolina's Southern Fried Fuel photo: Sara Novak Down here in South Carolina we're known for our southern fried chicken, but what about our southern fried fuel In a move that could have a big time impact on the way Carolina views the deep fat fryer, city council officials are calling on local restaurants and residents to donate their cooking oil to be turned into biofuel to run the city's garbage trucks. Right now it's just a test run on one of the city's trucks, but if it's..
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Marine Stewardship Council's Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Say photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. As is to be expected, MSC strongly disagrees. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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The Strangest Sustainability Analogy Ever? Stop Watching Spongebob (Video) Image credit: CosmicRevolutionKS When I interviewed my friend Tim Toben of Greenbridge and Pickards Mountain Ecoinstitute, he suggested it was important that we all "tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by renewable energy -- in poetry, music, art, dance." That's easier said than done. But one young man has been doing just that—and the result is rather strange, but oddly compellin..
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The elimination diet: Discover your migraine triggers Seventeen percent of the population will experience migraine headaches at some point in their life.  These debilitating headaches can last for days and are often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and sound. About three times more common in women than in men, these headaches are generally described as unilateral, however this is only true in six out of ten cases. It is important to know what your migraine triggers are, as t..
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10 decadent foods with half the guilt (Photo: Getty Images) It's hardly a secret that cooking fresh foods at home is better for your health, waistline, pocket book, and the planet than choosing packaged foods or eating take-out. Does that mean you can eat anything you want as long as you prepare it yourself Unfortunately, most of us need to steer clear of high-calorie foods that contain too much fat and salt. But this doesn't mean that decadent foods are off limits. Bel..
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Egg farmers respond to the salmonella recall crisis (Photo: FDA) How is the egg industry handling the recalls (Egg Recall List) Yesterday, major newspapers ran a full-page ad from “America’s Egg Farmers” (I saw it in USA Today and in the New York Times). The ad displays an egg and text on a white background, nothing more. The text is spare and notable more for what it does not say than for what it does. Here it is, with my translations in italics. A message from America’s Egg Farmers. ..
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Bring the produce to the people In the past couple of years, food trucks have become popular across the United States, in cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, and San Francisco. You can find nearly every kind of food on them, from typical fare like tacos, to the more exotic like fusion Asian-Mexican cuisine, and even sweet treats like ice cream and cupcakes. As I have written about on Care2, the local food and sustainable food movements have also been growi..
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Navigating that puzzling chocolate terminology It used to be there were two kinds of chocolate: chocolate chips and chocolate bars. Then there was dark chocolate and milk chocolate, and soon thereafter white chocolate came into play. But take a look around at all of the chocolate options touting all manner of "artisanal" qualities, cocoa percentage, and single estate pedigree, and it is easy for a chocolate lover (or just a person wanting to buy a good chocolate bar) to get a bit flus..
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New Cement Absorbs Carbon Dioxide Cement is a strong and reliable building material, and the demand for it continues to go up. Unfortunately, the process used to manufacture most of the world’s cement creates 5 percent of the man-made carbon dioxide emissions. A new cement company, however, promises a new technique that will transform cement into a greener building material.... Read More.....
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Denver Conference to Focus on Risks & Opportunities in Global Energy Investments Denver-based Montreux Energy, a producer of strategy roundtables on the future of global energy investment, will host a conference of national and international experts to discuss new ways to improve the efficiency and sustainability of urban energy, systems, and infrastructure...
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“Make It Right Foundation” Builds Sustainable Houses in New Orlean’s 9th Ward It has been five years since Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, and many parts of the city are still waiting to be rebuilt. Thanks to the Make It Right Foundation, much of the rebuilding will focus on green and sustainable technologies. Home owners still coming back to the infamous 9th Ward will get to... Read More.....
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DOE Will Host Algae Webinar Sept. 8 According to AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com, DOE’s Biomass Program will host “The Promise and Challenge of Algae as a Renewable Source of Biofuels,” on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, from 2:00–4:30 p.m. EDT..
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Engineering School Renovation Earns LEED Gold The Duthie Center for Engineering on the University of Louisville campus recently earned LEED Gold for its renovation project. Highlights included 54% water savings, reuse of 95% of the existing building structure, and recycling 77% of the demolition waste...
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Friday music blogging: Arcade Fire by Jonathan Hiskes. You can bet an artist is grappling with questions of place and home and belonging when she belts out a line like, “Sometimes I wonder if the world’s so small / that we can never get away from the sprawl ... Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains / And there’s no end in sight.” That’s Arcade Fire‘s Régine Chassagne singing on the tail end of the new album The Subur..
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Six ways to save time and energy in the kitchen by April McGreger. If you’re like me, summer is chaos: traveling, packing and unpacking, and structureless days. Fall usually brings much-needed order—if I can spend the time to get organized and to regroup. For me, cooler temperatures also mean a return to cooking. For me, Labor Day is the signal to get the kitchen ready for the season. My goals have been the same for years—I just try to hone in on them more every year. Li..
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It (almost) can’t get more local than growing at the grocery store by Ashley Braun. Are farmers markets not fresh enough for you Is the urban farm down the street too full of dirt Do you love the experience of walking up and down aisles of artificially lit food which the grocery store can offer but cringe at the miles and minutes it took for your dinner to reach youThen Agropolis may be for you!  It’s the soil-free, pesticide-free, and travel-free concept grocery store, urban farm, and restaurant,..
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Buy a breath of ‘Fresh Air’ in Hong Kong by Ashley Braun. Oxygen bars are so Japan circa 1997. Huffing canisters of “Fresh Air” is where it’s at. At only two Hong Kong dollars a pop (that’s one shiny U.S. quarter), Hong Kongers can finally huff and puff and blow their birthday candles out ... just “like the rest of the world does.” With a deal like that, why would you breathe anything else Unfortunately for the seven million residents respiring..
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How will you keep walruses from learning to fly? by Ashley Braun. That’s what I consider the core message to be of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s cute animated video about climate change’s effects on sea creatures. Deviating from the nature mockumentary style, this one instead takes the high tech approach to global warming by going the CGI walrus route. This pretty clearly emphasizes the difference between humans mitigating climate change (e.g., driving less) and marine life a..
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Banksy Turns Kiddie Ride Into Anti-BP Statement Photo: Banksy.co.uk Poor Dolphin World-famous guerilla artist Banksy has made many environmental statements in the past, but we think this one is particularly clever, especially with the events of the past few months. Check out the video after the jump to see the coin-operated kiddie ride in action.... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Ecomobile: A Green Mobile Home In A Spiritual Trailer Park Images unless noted: Findhorn Foundation While following the development of small green prefabs, It has become increasingly clear that you cannot separate the home from the context, and that what we really need is a sort of green trailer park, where people can own their unit but share common resources. It turns out that it exists, and has since 1962; Dr. Graham Meltzer just built his own home, the ecomobile, in the Park at Findhorn, a "growing ..
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Erin Hanson's Clever Art Underscores Our Need To Want Less Image by Erin Hanson Erin Hanson's outlet is the Recovering Lazyholic, and she has some great ways of pinpointing the unfortunate condition of so many of us folks, who give in to our slovenly side a little too often. One of her projects is "Need to Want Less," a series of graphics that smartly and succinctly sums up the choices we're given about consumerism. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Big Bambú: A Cresting Wave Hits New York City Image Credit: Nucho via Flickr Bamboo gets used in a lot of ways, from underwear to flooring to windmills. But this summer, the roof of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to a forest of bamboo that is an aesthetic end in itself. Since April, artists Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Obama's Oval Office Is Beige And Could Have Been Green New York Times Everyone in the red state is piling on the redesign of the oval office, complaining it is not patriotic enough, even though George Bush took Bill Clinton's red, white and blue garish extravaganza and turned it into a muted southern living room (and lost the red, white and blue) showing more taste than patriotism. But since... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Europe Cuts Coal Consumption 16.3% Europeans now get 46.4% of their electricity  from non-carbon courses, if you include nuclear, which supplies most of the electricity at 28%. In 2009, they cut coal consumption drastically from 2008. Europeans’ hard coal production dropped 9.2% in 2009 from 2008, and Europe similarly reduced their production of natural gas which in 2009 supplied just [...][Europe Cuts Coal Consumption 16.3% from Green Living Ideas] ..
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No Name Key’s Fight to Remain Off the Grid When you live off the grid, it becomes part of your persona. It is part of your identity; one way you might describe yourself to strangers.  Off-gridders take personal pride in their ability to make their own power, be energy efficient, and live without the gadgets many Americans take for granted as part of life. When [...][No Name Key’s Fight to Remain Off the Grid from Green Living Ideas] ..
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The Crop Mob Unleashes Community on Sustainable Farms You may have seen a “flashmob” as part of a guerrilla marketing stunt in the last few years, where hundreds of people descend on an urban location to participate in a coordinated show that is a surprise to everyone but those involved. How would that marketing idea play out in the green world The Crop [...][The Crop Mob Unleashes Community on Sustainable Farms from Green Living Ideas] ..
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Solar Leasing Makes Solar Power Affordable Anyone I know who is interested in solar power usually has two thing that make them tilt their head, clench their teeth and do the breathe-in hesitation- high up front costs and maintenance. It can cost a lot of money to buy solar panels, and even more to keep them in optimal shape once you [...][Solar Leasing Makes Solar Power Affordable from Green Living Ideas] ..
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Climate Counts Back-2-Cool Campaign It won’t be long before we’ll start seeing Back-2-School advertisements again. Back-2-School campaigns seem like relatively harmless advertising campaigns, right Maybe not. Back-2-School season actually creates more revenue for the US’ top 100 companies than any other time of year other than the holiday shopping season. And, as with all advertising campaigns, Back-2-School advertising campaigns [...][Climate Counts Back-2-Cool C..
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5 Green Products: Haba Master Builder Set Coliseum to Tegu Magnetic Wooden Blocks 1. Haba Master Builder Set Coliseum I so love Haba toys!  These high quality wooden toys are always worth the money.  Now that my children are getting older, I am especially enamored with the Master Builder Sets. Replicating ancient wonders of architecture, children really have to think when using these wooden blocks. In addition, they can [...]5 Green Products: Haba Master Builder Set Coliseum to Tegu Magnetic Wooden Blocks is a post from: Eco ..
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Kid Friendly Vegetarian Recipes: Kiwi Wraps or Rolls Kiwi Wraps or Rolls These wraps can be served as a traditional wrap sandwich or slice it into pieces (like a sushi roll) for bite sized treats. Ingredients: 1 tablespoon peanut butter or sunflower butter 1 tablespoon cream cheese 1/2 kiwi Tortilla — whole wheat or plain (squared) Instructions: Remove the skin from the kiwi and slice it into thin rounds. [...]Kid Friendly Vegetarian Recipes: Kiwi Wraps or Rolls is a post from: Eco Child&..
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NWF: Outdoor Time Boosts Academic Performance It’s back-to-school time. Time to think about learning reading, writing, and arithmetic.  In this day and age of high stakes standardized testing and mass media, the outdoor classroom has fallen prey to ”core” academics.  Unfortunately, this editing of the school day has not actually increased academic performance as predicted. In fact, a new report by the [...]NWF: Outdoor Time Boosts Academic Performance is a post from: Eco Ch..
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Hank D and the Bee: Treat Your Worms Well A little info on composting with worms from EcoChildsPlay–and your own bin from the Sustainablog store. Follow the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related Posts: Digging for Worms Hank D and the Bee: Hank D Eggs the Bee Hank D and the [...]Hank D and the Bee: Treat Your Worms Well is a post from: Eco Child's Play ..
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Back to School with Solar Panels! There is no better way to teach our children than leading by example. That’s why I get so excited every time I hear about schools going solar!  Of course, during this recessive economy, cash strapped schools can hardly afford textbooks, let alone expensive photovoltaic panels.  Thankfully, the solar industry has come to the rescue. Many people [...]Back to School with Solar Panels! is a post from: Eco Child's Play ..
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Spanish Umbrella Forest The ability to seek shade in sunny Spain just got a little bit easier. A new 128,000 sq.ft (11,900 sq.m) umbrella installation located in the southern city of Córdoba, created by ParedesPino Arquitectos, is designed to revitalize the city center. ..
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Norway's Living Roof Hotel The Two Seasons Hotel, featuring a rolling green roof, recently opened in Stavanger, Norway. The JDS Architects' hotel offers 194 rooms spread over six floors with the entire structure built on a multi-storey parking garage. ..
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BIG’s Swedish Green Roof With more than 1700sq.m (18,300sq.ft) of sloping green roof space, Swedish architectural firm BIG’s 8 House is an example of contemporary green architectural innovations. Copenhagen’s moss-sedum covered 8 House, in conjunction with green roof contractor Veg Tech, recently won the 2010 Scandinavian Green Roof Award. ..
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Recycled Pallet House Wooden shipping pallets are upcyled into a sexily curvaceous and sustainable structure created by German architect Matthias Loebermann. ..
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NASA Space Settlements With theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking’s recent proclamations that humans need to “abandon Earth” if they are going to survive, it seems like a good time to explore options for space colonies. ..
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Trashy and sassy! – Recycled Necklaces Gone Bad From artist, Erin Stevens: “The base of the pendant is the bottom of a beer can. I haven’t figured out a way to incorporate the entire can, but at least it is a start.” I love the simplicity not to mention the creativity! When you wear this lovely…. only YOU will know its thorns. Created [...] ..
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Recycled Jewelry – Concrete and Glass Crafted entirely by hand from different colors of concrete and crushed glass. The glass/concrete mixture fills formed stainless steel and brass. Some of the pieces created by this artist contain 75% post consumer recycled glass collected from local beaches. Check out the variety of shapes and sizes …clouds, lightning bolts, flowers, teardrops, hearts, and clovers! [...] ..
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Recycled Paper Fun! From “Artesa”, created from recycled magazine pages using a “rolling” process that artist, Flavia, learned as a child while playing with movie tickets and store receipts. These days, she rolls up scrap magazine pages, while carefully choosing the perfect color of the coils and slowly shapes her bowls and baskets. The results take weeks to [...] ..
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Another artist working in Coffee Cups Since everyone loved Cheeming Boey, here’s another artist working on coffee cups….Paul Westcombe (b. 1981). His work can be found in London’s Trinity Contemporary and The Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea. ..
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Cheeming Boey: Recycled Styrofoam Cup Art Cheeming Boey, an artist from Newport Beach, CA, creates his art using a Sharpie and recycled Styrofoam cups. Ever since 2006, Boey started drawing on foam cups as a hobby and has now turned the project into a serious business. Each cup takes a few hours to several months to create. His work was recently [...] ..
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Foster + Partners Design Undulating Eco Villas for Mauritius Inhabitat favorite Foster and Partners designed these gorgeous eco-friendly residences for a community called Banyan Tree Corniche Bay in Mauritius back in 2006. The plan calls for discreet and environmentally-sensitive homes that integrate harmoniously with the lush landscape. The project makes use of indigenous materials and features beautiful undulating roofs — we just wish it [...]..
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Awesome Net Zero Ocean Adventure Lab Up for Auction! This year’s Project Playhouse brought forth a bevy of whimsical designs that got us wishing we were 4-feet tall again, but it was the design submitted by the folks at LPA Inc. and Turner Construction that really blew our socks off! More than just a space for kids to sit around and sip air-tea, the Ocean [...]..
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Stunning Hawaiian Residence Features Cyclone of Reclaimed Wood Read the rest of Stunning Hawaiian Residence Features Cyclone of Reclaimed Woodhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.phppage=better_feedptions-general.phppage=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", belzberg architects, eco design, eco residence, green architecture, Green Building, green design, hawaii, kona, natural ventilation, photovol..
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Beautiful Iceberg on the Baltic is a Brilliant Summer Cabin You’ve dreamed of having a summer cabin settled along a lake, but did you ever imagine an escape placed directly on the water Architect Daniel Andersson has envisioned a nouveau lake house that lets guests sleep with the fish — where the living space sits directly below the water’s surface and from above emerges an [...]..
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2 Nest Village is a Cluster of Shaded Prefab Homes for El Paso Read the rest of 2 Nest Village is a Cluster of Shaded Prefab Homes for El Pasohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.phppage=better_feedptions-general.phppage=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", 2 nest village, Eco Architecture, eco design, eco home, el paso, green architecture, green design, green home, ofis, ofis architects, Prefab,..
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Jody Scheckter: From Formula One to life in the slow lane Being told to "belt up" barely 10 minutes into an interview would normally bode badly but Jody Scheckter means well enough. The one-time enfant terrible of motor racing knows better than most what happens when he steps on the gas and he is not taking any chances. It's hardly Monza, but I swear the needle hits 60 as the grass blurs outside my window...
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Miliband accuses coalition of 'greenwash' over North Sea oil David Cameron's claim to lead the "greenest government ever" was thrown into the heart of the Labour leadership contest last night, amid concern about plans for a deep-sea drilling operation in the North Sea...
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Simon Usborne: 'I sat, for as long as was decent, in the famous Irishman's slipstream' Imagine knocking up with Jimmy Connors, playing keepy-uppy with Johan Cruyff or doing laps with, I don't know, Duncan Goodhew. Well, that's what about 1,400 riders got to do, sort of, on Sunday 24 August, when at a reception on the eve of the inaugural Sky Ride Etape Hibernia, an 82-mile sportive on closed roads around County Clare, Ireland, guests started nudging each other and looking at a fairly short man in a stripy shirt...
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Four held after Arctic storm halts Greenland protest Four Greenpeace activists who clung to an oil rig off western Greenland using rock-climbing gear have been arrested after an Arctic storm forced them to abandon their protest...
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It's a greener shade of green: Britain's first organic golf course With their diamond-patterned jumpers, neatly pressed slacks and expensive club memberships, most golfers seem to have little in common with the unwashed eco-warrior brigade. The divide between the two groups is not just sartorial, but stems from the fact that many golf clubs use huge amounts of water, disfigure the landscape and use fertilisers and pesticides to keep their greens lush. However, this gulf may soon be bridged, as a Cambridgeshire ..
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Six hidden dangers in your home (Photo: Getty Images) It's impossible to avoid all the potential dangers in life. But some dangers lurking in the home are easily avoided if you're armed with the right info. Below are six accidents-waiting-to-happen and what you can do to prevent them. What do you think is missing from this list Share other hidden, but easily preventable dangers in the comments section.      1. Mixing some cleaning products Toxic gases can form w..
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Six perfect plants for dorm rooms Plants are unique decorations that pay off in other ways besides aesthetics. Besides improving the air quality -- and the overall smell -- of a room, plants create a calming environment that's perfect for hardworking students. But having a dorm plant does require a little responsibility, so make sure you choose one that will definitely pay off. The perfect dorm plants are tough enough to tolerate low light and water levels (just in case), and wo..
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46 smart uses for salt (Photo: Getty Images) How many ways can you use salt According to the Salt Institute, about 14,000! The salt website has tons of handy tips for using salt around the house, and the best of the bunch -- plus my additions -- are listed below. I can't think of another more versatile mineral.  Salt is the most common and readily available nonmetallic mineral in the world. In fact, the supply of salt is inexhaustible. For thousands of years, ..
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In the night garden: Create a moon garden There is something mystical and romantic about walking through a garden on a summer evening. The moonlight casts a spotlight of shadows capturing and emphasizing moody white flowers and shimmery plants amongst the greenery. The sounds are quietly eerie. Day lilies are closed up tight and sleeping. Nightfall brings entirely new and intoxicating fragrances that awaken the senses to a unique garden experience. What is a night garden A night..
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Eco-friendly tips to insulate your home (Image Credit: Creative Commons photo by moosicorn) It is hot out there! We know that insulation helps us run that air conditioner a bit less, but what you might not know is that there are lots of different insulation options, and certain types are much more environmentally sound than others. Insulators like spray foam contain harsh chemicals and even emit greenhouse gases. Here are some insulation options that get it right: Blue jeans ..
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La Vida Locavore I’ve been on the lookout for new environmental blogs.  La Vida Locavore is so good, it got this lazy blogger off his duff to give her a shot out and a link. Go check the blog out, especially the series on her recent trip to Cuba Groovy Green readers, any other good blog/website suggestions Copyright © 2010 GroovyGreen.com [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "La Vida Locavore", url: "http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/p=4089" });..
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offshore oil :: drill baby drill :: the obama plan What follows is something I posted in September of 2008. The US presidential campaign was building up steam and I was sick and tired of hearing ‘Drill Baby Drill.’ It made me ill because of the stupidity of the entire argument. I wrote, Even when production is pumping at full capacity, additional offshore [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "offshore oil :: drill baby drill :: the obama plan", url: "http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/..
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Review: The Book of Rubbish Ideas [ed note: the following post is written by Alison Bayne.  Check out her blog at alisonbayne.blogspot.com] The Book of Rubbish Ideas is anything but rubbish. It is FULL of excellent tips to help eco-newbies and hard-core Greens see rubbish as a resource, cut down on waste, and save time, money and resources as a result. Don’t be [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Review: The Book of Rubbish Ideas", url: "http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/p=..
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A Groovy Green Reader Gives Up Her Car [ed note:] This post was sent to us by Tammy Roberts, from West Yorkshire, UK: I’M GIVING UP MY CAR I didn’t learn to drive until I was 30.  Up until that point, I hadn’t seen the point of having a car or even having the ability to drive, as public transport was convenient enough.  However, 2 [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Groovy Green Reader Gives Up Her Car", url: "http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/p=4056" });..
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Up is down. Black is white. Night is day. GM’s Lutz advocates for increased gas tax. From CNNMoney.com: Lutz was asked if that means he would favor higher gasoline taxes, as in Europe where taxes drive fuel to more than $5 a gallon. He said he couldn’t speak for GM, but he said he saw a lot of value in a steady tax rise to much higher levels. “You either continue with inexpensive [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Up is down. Black is white. Night is day. GM’s Lutz advocates for increased gas tax.", url: "htt..
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