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Designing sustainable habitats at the San Diego Zoo

  • Teresa Bergen
  • 09/08/2021

What’s more amazing, a tiny nectar-drinking bird that weighs less than a nickel and can fly backward, or a giant carnivorous lizard that can smell a dying animal up to six miles away? They’re both impressive, and now visitors to the San Diego Zoo can experience both hummingbirds and Komodo dragons...

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Osprey uses recycled plastic fabric for durable bags

  • Dawn Hammon
  • 09/07/2021

Osprey is a well-established outdoor gear brand. Since the company launched in 1974, every product has passed through the hands of founder Mike Pfotenhauer, who maintains high standards in regards to the company values of innovation, integrity, quality, respect and stewardship. In alignment with this philosophy,...

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Hurricane Ida brings floods to Northeast U.S.

  • Bonface Landi
  • 09/07/2021

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut residents have faced flooding due to Hurricane Ida. Although miles away from Louisiana, where the hurricane first landed, the Northeast received heavy storms as the hurricane moved inland. At least 44 people were confirmed dead by Thursday following heavy flooding...

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Climate Change

Climate change is the biggest public health issue

  • Teresa Bergen
  • 09/07/2021

More than 220 of the world’s top public health and medical journals have published a joint plea for the global population to reduce carbon emissions immediately. Humanity already faces irreversible public health threats, the editors wrote. We can’t wait for the pandemic to end before we...

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Design

Greening the board game industry with Big Potato Games

  • KC Morgan
  • 09/07/2021

Party games can be a fun reason for everyone to get together, but they can also take a lot of resources to make. Big Potato takes a sustainable approach to make game time a little greener. You may have seen Big Potato games in the past. The company is responsible for titles such as Herd Mentality,...

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  • A rural landscape with a tree and fence in front of a green lawn where a simple wood house sits.
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Homes

A sustainable design response to Australia's housing crisis

  • Katherine Gallagher
  • 09/07/2021

Designed by Jiri Lev of Atelier Jiri Lev, the Tasmanian House combines traditional and innovative approaches to architecture with local Tasmanian elements as a response to some of the area’s most pressing social issues. Lev is an architect focused on community values. Based in Tasmania...

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  • Dawn Hammon
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As part of interior design, lighting serves a greater purpose than illumination alone. Fixtures set the tone of a room and work as a central element in the theme. Graypants Studio, with offices in Seattle and Amsterdam, takes the look of its lighting products seriously while placing a focus on producing them...

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Off Grid House takes remote sustainability to new heights

  • Inaara Thawer
  • 09/06/2021

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  • Grae Gleason
  • 09/06/2021

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  • KC Morgan
  • 09/03/2021

The environmental problems facing the world certainly weren’t created by one person, one company or even by one country. You know what they say: it takes a village to destroy the planet. Well, that’s close enough anyway. And it will take a collaborative effort to fix the environmental problems facing the world....

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'Infernal summer' in Canada may split September election

  • Bonface Landi
  • 09/03/2021

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  • Teresa Bergen
  • 09/03/2021

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