Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living
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- Off-grid Lake House escapes the Texan heat with minimal landscape impact Thu, 21 Sep 17, 7:30pmThere’s nothing quite like taking a cool dip in a lake on a hot summer’s day. The lucky owners of the Lake House get to escape the brutal Texan heat with laps in Lake Austin thanks to their off-grid boathouse. American...
- Harvey shines a spotlight on a high-risk area of chemical plants in Texas Fri, 1 Sep 17, 4:00pmLong before the storm dropped barrels of rain over one of the world’s largest industrial corridors, the area was rife with potentially dangerous chemicals
- 7 ways you can help people affected by Tropical Storm Harvey Thu, 31 Aug 17, 6:10amTropical Storm Harvey is battering the Houston area, affecting over 6.8 million people. With so many people and pets displaced and suffering, you may be wondering how you can help. Whether you live close to the disaster area...
- Fire ants swarm into floating rafts to survive Harvey Wed, 30 Aug 17, 11:24pmPeople battling flooding and destruction in Texas after Tropical Storm Harvey face yet another hazard: fire ants. Photos on social media show patches of ants floating together through floodwaters - and though this behavior...
- Former Obama Adviser Uses Hurricane Harvey To Attack GOP On Climate Change Wed, 30 Aug 17, 12:38pmEnergy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 10:48 AM 08/29/2017 Former White House national security adviser Ben Rhodes used the devastation that Hurricane Harvey brought to Texas as an opportunity to attack Republican...
- Harvey forces National Weather Service to add new color to its rainfall map Tue, 29 Aug 17, 8:44pmBy now everyone knows that Texas is still suffering from the aftermath of the potent Category 4 Hurricane Harvey that swept into the region over the weekend...
- 6 ways you can help people affected by Tropical Storm Harvey Tue, 29 Aug 17, 4:44amTropical Storm Harvey is battering the Houston area, affecting over 6.8 million people. With so many people and pets displaced and suffering, you may be wondering how you can help. Whether you live close to the disaster area...
- You can build one of these tiny backyard offices in less than a week for under $7000 Thu, 17 Aug 17, 11:19pmAustin-based Sett Studio designs tiny offices that take conventional workspaces to task. These micro-offices can be used for a variety of applications - and they can be set up in no time for an affordable price. The firm's...
- A garbage patch bigger than Texas was just discovered in the Pacific Ocean Thu, 3 Aug 17, 3:27amA few months ago, scientists found a new garbage patch in the Arctic ocean. And now, another pocket of plastics, human trash, and chemical waste has been discovered in a newly-explored region of the Pacific Ocean. Like it’s...
- Last orca bred in captivity at SeaWorld dies, aged 3 months Fri, 28 Jul 17, 9:42pmKeepers and animal rights activists are mourning the passing of the last orca bred in captivity under SeaWorld’s breeding program, which ended in 2016...
- Energy-efficient Bluebonnet Studios offers sustainable housing to Austins most vulnerable citizens Sat, 15 Jul 17, 4:21amThe Bluebonnet Studios social housing development in Austin supports a healthy lifestyle through the design. The property, designed by Forge Craft Architecture + Design, provides housing for the homeless, low-income veterans...
- 11-year-old boy invents device to save children from dying in hot cars Wed, 5 Jul 17, 12:52amChildren dying in overheated cars is one of those preventable tragedies that just shouldn't happen, and an 11-year-old boy in Texas decided to do something about it...
- This Texas supermarket is growing its own veggies in a shipping container farm Thu, 25 May 17, 9:58pmA Texas chain of supermarkets isn't just in the business of selling vegetables; it's growing them, too. Based in Dallas, the H-E-B-owned Central Market has joined forces with Controlled Environment Agriculture Advisors, a...
- Experience the good old days of off-grid living at the El Cosmico vintage trailer park Tue, 9 May 17, 10:07pmAlthough some may think that tiny home design is a relatively new concept, trailer living has been around almost since the dawn of time, or at least since the creation of the iconic Airstream...
- Crazy Texas tire fire demonstrates why America needs the EPA Tue, 18 Apr 17, 8:31pm100,000 tires caught fire in arid Odessa, Texas earlier this month. The blaze was too much for local volunteer firefighters to extinguish as the isolated area's closest fire hydrant is four miles away. So the Environmental...