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Showing posts with label eco-friendly. Show all posts
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DIY: Build This Cabin For Under $4,000

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By Steve Maxwell ( Real Farmac y) Cozy Cabin 4000Rays of early-morning sunlight gently peek through the windows, easing you awake....

DIY Convection Heater Warms Room for Pennies a Day

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With a few readily available (and economical) supplies, you too can have an inexpensive convection heater. All you need are the fol...

Could Micro-Algae Free America From Foreign Wars, Debt and Environmental Destruction? ‘Green Crude Oil’ and ‘Living Buildings’ May Hold the Secret to Liberation

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Next time you notice green slime growing in a pool or pond, take a second look. Incredibly, that bit of algae could be the secret to sol...

Solar Cooking 101: Harnessing The Sun For Health, Wealth And A Clean Environment

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Cooking with the sun is not only eco-friendly, it also contributes to better tasting, more nutritious food. Preparing food in this wa...

Encourage Prosperity, Alleviate Famine And Heal The Environment With Hemp

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Hemp. Just the word conjures images of the  Drug Enforcement Administration  and political battles. But industrial hemp is a far cry f...

How One Bay Area Couple Plans To Save The Bees By Planting One Billion Wildflowers

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By Charley Cameron ( Inhabit ) Honey bees are vital to US crop production; they are responsible for the pollination of one third of U...

The Biodegradable Credit Card That Fights Climate Change

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( Take Part ) Would you feel less guilty about whipping out your credit card if you knew buying stuff could help save the planet from c...

Goat Rentals Take Off In Seattle On First Day Of Amazon Home Services

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( KUOW.Org ) When Amazon launched its Amazon Home Services this week, the stars of the new initiative were … Goats. Seattle goats, s...

This Girl Has Produced Less Trash in Two Years Than Most Do In One Day

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Photo Credit: Minds.com ( Minds ) Imagine, city living where you don't produce waste.  Lauren Singer imagined it, and over the las...

Baltimore's Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Devour 50,000 Pounds of Harbor Trash Every Day

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By Lucy Wang ( Inhabitat)  Trash isn't a pretty sight, but Baltimore's new Water Wheel actually makes collecting garbage look ...

Egloo heats your room without electricity for 10 cents a day

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Can you heat your room for just 10 cents a day? Egloo can. Egloo is a clever little heater that harnesses candle power to heat a room...

How to start a 1-acre, self-sustaining homestead

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( Mother Earth News ) Expert advice on how to establish self-sufficient food production, including guidance on crop rotations, raising l...

Beautiful glass roof tiles heat your home with solar energy year-round

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( Inhabitat ) SolTech Energy, a Swedish company selling solutions for clean solar power, has developed a unique home heating system cont...

Britain’s first ‘Bio-Bus’ powered entirely by human and food waste takes to the streets

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( The Guardian ) Britain’s first ‘poo bus’ will take to the road on Thursday, powered entirely by human and food waste. The 40-seat “Bi...

Bolivia grants legal rights to Mother Earth

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(Earth We Are One) Law of Mother Earth sees Bolivia pilot new social and economic model based on protection of and respect for nature. ...

15 year old girl creates power generating water filter

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By John Vibes Last week, True Activist published a story about a 15 year old who invented a shoe insole that creates electricity whil...

Luci inflatable solar lantern: eco-friendly, zero emissions and affordable—what more can you ask for?

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( The Grommet ) Luci is an inflatable, affordable, solar lantern that generates continuous light with zero emissions anywhere on earth i...

DIY solar food dehydrator

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( Mother Earth News ) More and more people are recognizing the importance of food quality in their daily lives. The freshest, ripest, tas...

This City Aims to Be “Car Free” in 20 Years

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By: Amanda Froelich ( True Activist ) To live in this age is an exciting time. The technological advances have accelerated communicatio...
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The £150 hobbit hole: Farmer builds a cosy cob home using materials he recycled from skips... and the tenant pays the rent in MILK

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( MailOnline ) By David Wilkes It looks like something straight out of Middle Earth – and the story behind it is almost as fantastical....