Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living
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- A 19th century building is reborn as solar-powered temporary housing for families in need Fri, 20 Jul 18, 1:00amNo matter where you live or what you do for a living, there’s always a chance that fate will take a few bad turns, leaving you and your family in need of temporary housing...
- Red List expands to 26,000 endangered species Sat, 7 Jul 18, 5:30amJapanese earthworms, the Mauritian flying fox and the Bankoualé Palm are joining over 26,000 species categorized as “endangered.” The latest International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) Red List report now...
- This British caf is serving to-go coffee in ceramic mugs to combat waste Fri, 6 Jul 18, 6:30amA coffee shop northeast of London wants to serve its customers coffee in a mug from your home. La Tour Cycle Café has a novel idea to stop its reliance on disposable coffee cups: pour everything into reusable ceramic mugs,...
- Dairy farmers' excess milk gets a second life feeding the hungry Wed, 4 Jul 18, 4:30amAutomation may have caused a significant surplus of dairy products and a corresponding price drop, but one non-profit has stepped up to ensure food – and farms – don’t go to waste...
- Australia takes stand on single-use plastic bags Tue, 3 Jul 18, 8:30amSingle-use plastic bags are going out of style in Australia, but shoppers aren't thrilled by the reduction. Two major retailers, Big W and Coles, have officially ended the use of plastic shopping bags from their stores. The...
- Designers envision innovative affordable housing for Sydney Tue, 8 May 18, 6:41amThe Sydney Affordable Housing Challenge, organized by Bee Breeders, calls for ideas that try to solve the affordable housing shortage in Sydney. The competition attracted worldwide talent as designers attempted to create...
- The 6 most pressing environmental issuesand what you can do to help solve them Fri, 13 Apr 18, 5:00amMore than four decades after the first Earth Day, there are still many environmental concerns for communities around the world to address; perhaps none so pressing as man-made climate change...
- Every project on DonorsChoose.org was just funded by a $29 million cryptocurrency donation Fri, 30 Mar 18, 5:45amDonorsChoose.org helps teachers crowdsource funding for education needs, with over 35,000 open campaigns asking for everything from robotics kits to field trips. At least, there were 35,000 campaigns open last week. But as...
- New pay-what-you-can restaurant opens in Fort Worth, Texas Thu, 22 Mar 18, 2:31amA Texas couple have opened a new restaurant that offers a pay-what-you-can model. Taste Community Restaurant targets middle class people struggling to get by who still deserve excellent food at a price they can afford. "Specifically,"...
- California's "Butt Lady picks up 1,000,000 littered cigarette butts in 3.5 years Mon, 26 Feb 18, 10:51pmCigarette butts account for an estimated 1.69 billion pounds of trash produced worldwide annually, a good number of which never even find their way into proper trash receptacles. Instead, most of them are ingested by aquatic...
- Earthship pioneer Michael Reynolds is building the first sustainable school in Argentina Wed, 31 Jan 18, 11:37pmArchitect Michael Reynolds is known for his sustainable "Earthship" buildings - and how he's taking his radical work one step further by instilling the principles of green architecture in the next generation...
- The world's first vending machine for the homeless is 100% free Wed, 27 Dec 17, 9:45amHomeless people in the United Kingdom can now obtain food or items like socks or toothbrushes at no cost any time of day with a recently installed vending machine...
- The world's first vending machine for the homeless just launched - and it's totally free Wed, 27 Dec 17, 5:40amHomeless people in the United Kingdom can now obtain food or items like socks or toothbrushes at no cost any time of day with a recently installed vending machine...
- Alphabet X to beam wireless service to Puerto Rico with a fleet of balloons Tue, 10 Oct 17, 9:51pmHelp is coming to Puerto Rico in the form of balloons. Alphabet X’s Project Loon — a former Google enterprise — recently received an emergency license from the FCC to equip the island with mobile data via high-altitude...
- Catholic churches to make massive divestment from fossil fuels Thu, 5 Oct 17, 12:22amTo mark the anniversary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi, over 40 Catholic institutions have announced their imminent divestment from fossil fuels, the largest move of its kind by a faith-based organization...