UK Retailer Recycles 100M Hangers for UNICEF
U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer has recycled 100 million hangers in the last six months, raising more than $588,000 for international children’s charity, UNICEF. The retailer’s hanger recycling...
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Companies Make Last-Ditch Push for Congress to Extend Wind Tax Credit
Nike, Starbucks and Campbell Soup are among the consumer brands that are urging representatives to continue to support a tax credit for wind power production, currently in the final hours of...
View Article‘Big Green Bus’ Drives Recycling Empowerment
Written by Lisa Gordon, Director of Brand, Waste Management Summer is winding down, and so is this year’s Big Green Bus tour. Every summer for the last eight years, a dozen or so Dartmouth College...
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Rage against the machines? Revolutionizing industrial design
How do you create a "next industrial revolution" with the last revolution's machines? With tinkering, tenacity and TLC. See the rest here: Rage against the machines? Revolutionizing industrial design
View ArticleHilton to Recycle Used Hotel Mattresses
The global hoteliers have purchased a staggering 50,000 new mattresses over the last two years to replace old sets and furnish new hotels. Read the original: Hilton to Recycle Used Hotel Mattresses
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Derailed train converted into mobile cultural center in Ecuador
An old train is given a new life as a moving “wagon of knowledge”; acting as a mobile public space and carrier of culture, it will serve and connect communities along the coast.. Read more from the...
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Photo: Meet the critically endangered red wolf of the southeast
The red wolf is a unique wolf species found in the American southeast. Conservationists are trying to save the last members of the species from extinction, a difficult task since the remaining wolves...
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How companies can embrace ‘true recyclability’
Businesses can move beyond the bin to make recycling more effective. View original here: How companies can embrace ‘true recyclability’
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Solar PV installations break records in 2013
More solar capacity was installed in the last 18 months than the last three decades combined, according to new data. Go here to see the original: Solar PV installations break records in 2013
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Ontario Completely Off Coal
The Canadian province of Ontario has officially shut down its last coal burning power plant . Power for the province now comes from “emission-free electricity sources like wind , solar , nuclear and...
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Handmade T2 LED Lamp Combines Natural Materials with Minimalist, Modern Design
Are you looking for a one-of-a-kind desk lamp that appeals to your eco-friendly sensibilities? If so, you won’t want miss out on Ukrainian designer Nick Ponomarenko’s T2 LED lamp , a minimalist and...
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Would You Drink Fake Cow’s Milk Made from Genetically Engineered Yeast?
Fake cow’s milk will be hitting the shelves next year. Muufri is a new animal-free milk cooked up by bioengineers from genetically engineered yeast. Unlike soy, rice or almond milk, Muufri was...
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Italian Studio Nucleo Crystallizes Ancient Pieces of Oak into Precious Stools
Read the rest of Italian Studio Nucleo Crystallizes Ancient Pieces of Oak into Precious Stools Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: centenarian oak , crystallized stools , epoxy resin ,...
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Google just unveiled the first functional prototype of its self-driving car
Google has revealed the first functional prototype of its new self-driving car, following the debut of the “early mockup” this last May. The shape of the Google’s self-driving car hasn’t changed that...
View ArticleInside Brazil’s sustainability evolution
Brazil is making moves in sustainable development. Continued here: Inside Brazil’s sustainability evolution
View ArticleHow ADB became Asia’s top clean energy lender
Asian Development Bank has ramped up clean energy investment tenfold in the last decade to more than $2.4 billion annually. Read more here: How ADB became Asia’s top clean energy lender
View ArticleCitibank: Clean energy will save $1.8 trillion
A new report released by the banking behemoth gives us the hard numbers to prove that transitioning to a clean energy economy is a financial boon. Original post: Citibank: Clean energy will save $1.8...
View ArticleBank of England links climate change to financial crises
The $50 billion in weather-related losses over the last decade “pale in significance” to what might come, the bank’s governor warns. Excerpt from: Bank of England links climate change to financial crises
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El Niño’s wet winter to bring little relief to dry California
If you live in North America, you may have heard about the upcoming El Ni ño season. Predicted to be one of the strongest on record, the powerful weather event will flip the script on the usual winter...
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NASA’s most powerful rocket passes critical test for carrying humans to Mars
It will be a while before humans can travel to Mars – maybe a long while – but NASA is already hard at work building the craft that will take them there. Space technology takes a long time to develop,...
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