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New Report Suggests CFLs Could Cut Global Lighting Energy Demand by 40%

[social_buttons]A new report suggests that with an aggressive replacement program, compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) could drastically cut global lighting demand and begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions immediately. Fresh off the recent announcement that the European Union had banned incandescent light bulbs, the report, prepared by the Worldwatch Institute, suggests that replacing incandescents with compact […]

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How to Preserve Foods and Our Food Culture: Wild Fermentation

By ziggy

In this day and age of highly processed, artificial ingredient-infested “food products”, fermentation offers a beautifully simple, healthy, and delicious alternative to preserving some of our favorite foods. Fermentation is a natural food preservation process typically requiring nothing more than very simple ingredients and time. Many popular, everyday foods would not exist without magical fermentation

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FedEx Ups Its Solar Power Production To Almost Double

By Jerry James Stone

FedEx’s New Solar System Is Enough To Power 370 homes FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp, broke ground on its first – and largest – international solar energy facility on Monday. The facility near the Cologne, Germany airport will house over 16,000 square meters of solar panels. The new solar panel installation is slated

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Homeless Recycling Collectors Screwed by California Law

By Alex Felsinger

A misguided new California law prevents people from selling recycling if they do not have a valid state ID card. On the rare sunny San Francisco day, people don’t flock to the beach as much as you’d expect-they head to the inland parks since often the beach is still cold. Dolores Park, one of the

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Don't Flush That Poo Away: Composting Human Waste with the Humanure System

By ziggy

Isn’t it just so convenient that we flush our poop away, down the toilet, never to return? I mean, literally speaking, but metaphorically, too. We flush away our poop, like it’s a problem that we don’t want to deal with. But little do we realize, there’s value in everything, even that which might stink, and

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$700 Billion Bailout Includes Tax Break for Bicycle Commuters

By Meg Hamill

Tacked on last minute to the $700 billion bailout, bicycle commuters across the nation will be eligible for for a tax benefit that is already available to both train & bus commuters. [social_buttons] After $700 billion of our American tax dollars just went to bail out private banks, it’s a small relief that some laws

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Take Action to Save Energy: Cooking with an Insulated Hot Box

By ziggy

If you’re excited by the possibility of cutting back on your home energy consumption and saving a few precious dollars on your energy bill, let me introduce you to the idea of hot box cooking. A simple hot box provides a wise solution to preparing meals without the excessive use of your stovetop or oven.

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New Cities Join The Urban Chicken Movement

By Meg Hamill

Across the country, cities are passing new laws to allow backyard chickens. Cities across the country have shown new leniency in the urban chicken arena. Ann Arbor, Michigan, South Portland, Maine and Fort Collins Colorado, have all voted in the past year to allow backyard chickens. They join the growing number of U.S. cities

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Will the Florida Keys Be Our Next National Park? I Hope Not

By Levi Novey

Representatives from South Florida’s Monroe County are going to make a pitch this week for undeveloped private land in the Florida Keys to be bought with federal and state money, and then turned into a national park. While I’m all for more protection of beach and ocean areas in the Keys, I think this is

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Eco-News Roundup: Stories You Might Have Missed

By Shirley Siluk Gregory

Every week sees so many developments and news stories about the environment, energy and sustainability, it’s impossible to cover them all in depth. So I thought it would be helpful to occasionally summarize some of the more interesting reports from the past week. Here are a few that caught my eye: Two South African architects

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Urban Farmer Wins MacArthur Genius Grant

By Sarah Pressman Lovinger

Will Allen, former pro basketball player, founded Growing Power to help low-income people in Milwaukee and Chicago grow their own food locally. He will now have an extra $500,000 to help his efforts. The MacArthur Foundation announced yesterday that they will honor his work with one of their 25 annual ‘genius’ grants–a five-year grant

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We Have a New Mattress–How Do I Recycle The Old Mattress?

By Sarah Pressman Lovinger

My husband and I are quite pleased with our brand-new king size mattress. It’s firm, yet comfy, and because we also indulged in some new down pillows, we are sleeping much better these days. But what should we do with the old mattress? I know the mattress delivery company removes it, but I am sure

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Environmental Degradation and the Self: The Link between the Two

By Zachary Shahan

Where does environmental degradation start? It starts with our unnatural inclination to want more than we need. And where does this want come from? It comes from the idea of self. It comes from the feeling of self. It comes from the experience that we are an individual, separate from everything else. It comes from

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Controversial Wind Farm Takes Step Forward

By Joshua S Hill

It comes as no great surprise to many of us that there will always be a roadblock to a good step forward; especially if it’s a green step. People often do not like new technology. They’re scared of it, or fearful of the jobs it will take away/create. This is very much the case for

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Hummer H2 Gets Owned in Hill Climb Race by Ford Model T Driven by a 70 Year old man

By Aaron Brodeur

Pure pwnage… It wasn’t a fair fight at all, but for funsies, a vintage-car hill-climb allowed Forbes Magazine to enter a late model HUMMER H2. You know, just to see how the 316-hp, 4WD SUV would do against, say, a 100-hp 1921 Model T driven by a 70-year-old man. Like we said, it wasn’t fair

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