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Urban Gardening

Smart home garden LetPot has a 30-day self-watering system

If you love indoor plants as much as we do, you'll be thrilled with this new modular, self-watering system called LetPot. This growing system has a 30-day water tank and is fully automated and controlled by smart phone. LetPot is currently an already-over-goal Kickstarter that includes smart app, recyclable containers...
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Accessories

Feel good and look great with a Solios solar-powered watch

As the world moves toward slow fashion, even your accessories deserve to be chosen thoughtfully, including watches. If you’re looking for something timeless and eco-conscious, a solar-powered watch from Solios may be the perfect match. Founded by university friends Samuel Leroux and Alexandre Desabrais,...
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International Agriculture

Rainfall prediction app helps Indonesia’s farmers

A new rainfall app is helping farmers in Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island navigate climate change. A collaboration between Bandung Institute of Technology, USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and an international development nonprofit called World Neighbors is giving farmers important data on maximizing...
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Businesses

LEGO to build its first carbon neutral factory in Vietnam

LEGO has signed an agreement to build its latest factory in Vietnam, and it will be carbon neutral. The LEGO factory will achieve carbon neutrality by including rooftop solar panels and nearby supplementary solar panels through VSIP. These two solar installations will provide for all of the factory's energy needs....
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Homes

House in the Forest is cork-cladded with an all-natural pool

The House in the Forest designed by El Fil Verd is a remarkable example of a passive house that benefits from natural materials, ultra-efficiency and an all-natural pool, without sacrificing views of the surrounding Garraf Natural Park on the coast south of Barcelona.  Architect Elisabetta Quarta...
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Holidays

What should you do with all your holiday trash?

The holiday season is filled with social events with family, friends and co-workers. All that celebrating is not only hard on the waistline, but the environment too. So after all that sipping candy cane cocktails, wrapping gifts and dipping strawberries in the chocolate fountain, be sure to reduce, reuse and recycle...
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Businesses

Shopping mall design creates a balance with light and dark

The best architecture blurs the lines between the outdoors and the inside space, marrying together elements of nature at every interior turn. Developers from 10 Design kept this concept in the forefront while completing Jinwan Mall, a new lakefront shopping mall in Zhuhai. The 117,000 square meters...

The best architecture blurs the lines between the outdoors and the inside space, marrying together elements of nature at every interior turn....
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Profiles/Interviews

Playing in the Plants is growing Milwaukee's vegan scene

When people think of Wisconsin, cheese comes to mind before vegan delicacies. Restaurant collective Playing in the Plants is bringing exciting new plant-based outlets to Milwaukee.  On The Bus in the popular Milwaukee Public Market features sandwiches, vegan burgers, smoothies and perhaps Milwaukee’s...

When people think of Wisconsin, cheese comes to mind before vegan delicacies. Restaurant collective Playing in the Plants is bringing exciting...
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Lifestyle

Rum and beach bag collaboration is ending plastic pollution

What do you get when you combine companies who are passionate about ocean conservation with beach-inspired products? A collaboration that adds up to rum, beach bags and benefits to the environment.  Mount Gay Rum, the oldest running rum distillery in the world, paired up with Sea Bags, a Portland,...

What do you get when you combine companies who are passionate about ocean conservation with beach-inspired products? A collaboration that adds...
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Fashion

Fast fashion stacks up in Chile's Atacama Desert

Chile’s Atacama Desert is known for its beauty, wildlife, starry night skies and amazing hot air balloon rides. Now it’s also becoming infamous for its dunes of discarded fast fashion. All those clothes lying around for the taking may sound like a teen fashionista’s dream, but the cheap clothes that...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is known for its beauty, wildlife, starry night skies and amazing hot air balloon rides. Now it’s also becoming infamous...
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Waste Disposal

California sues Walmart for allegedly dumping hazardous waste

The state of California, through its Attorney general, has filed a lawsuit accusing Walmart of allegedly illegally disposing of hazardous waste in landfills across the state. The 42-page document directly implicates Walmart for dumping 160,000 pounds of hazardous waste each year over the past six years....

The state of California, through its Attorney general, has filed a lawsuit accusing Walmart of allegedly illegally disposing of hazardous waste...
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Electric Vehicles

Electric bus network expected to be in the US in 2022

Over Thanksgiving weekend, FlixBus USA made transit history by transporting a busload of passengers on the first interstate fully electric bus journey. “The driver said there was just this kind of bit of a glow in the bus,” said Pierre Gourdain, managing director of FlixBus USA. “People were really...

Over Thanksgiving weekend, FlixBus USA made transit history by transporting a busload of passengers on the first interstate fully electric bus...