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- Audi's Beautiful & Powerful E-Bike Wörthersee
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- Paul Watson Facing 15 Years in Jail
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- Manta Ray Satellite Study Reveals New Info
- Solar Light Is Both Life Saver, Work of Art
- GM Cotton Fails to Raise Yields in India
5 Zero-VOC Interior PaintsStart Here for a Freshly-Renovated, Healthy Home
For your next renovation project, avoid dangerous chemicals with these five paints -- minus the chemical-laden VOCs.
Business
Hawaii Now Has Statewide Plastic Bag Ban - With Significant Loopholes
The ban, starting in 2015, only covers plastic bags at point-of-sale, exempting a whole slew of other plastic bags with equal litter potential and equally good reusable alternatives.
- Gaia Soda: An Ethical Alternative to Soda Stream Home Carbonation?
- More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Marketing to Children
- New Shwopping Campaign at Marks & Spencer to Recycle Clothes and Save Landfills
- Straw Wars is a Campaign to Ban the Use of Straws in London's Restaurants
- Occupy's GlobalMay Manifesto Has Lots of Points Green Movement Should Get Behind
- Crowd-Sourced Map of NYC's Bike Share Stations Unveiled
- How ETSY Is Changing the Way We All Do Business
- More and More People, Cities and States Support Overturning Citizens United
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Green Gift Guide For Graduates
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Design
- Wood Construction Can Last A Long Time
- Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Designs London Pavilion
- 3-in-1 Crib Transforms to Meet Baby's Needs
- Portable "Sky Deck" Turns Your Fire Escape into a Terrace
- Hanging Plant Balcony Works Like a Drawbridge
- Cross Laminated Timber is Ready for Prime Time
- Homemade Chicken Coop with Beer Can Shingles Was Built in 10 Hours for $40
- From Hermit Crab Shells To Moon Bases: 19 Amazing Things You Can Do With 3D Printing
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Living
Paul Watson Faces 15 Years Imprisonment in Costa Rica
The wheels of justice move slowly, and it may be some time before Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson is actually extradited to Costa Rica, but should that happen and he's convicted he faces over a decade in prison.
- 5 Zero-VOC Interior Paints for a Freshly-Renovated, Healthy Home
- On the East Coast, a Sailing Regatta with Carbon Neutrality
- New Study: Sugar Sabotages Learning and Memory
- Clever Plastic-Free and Low-Tech Ways to Store Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
- Weekday Vegetarian: Shaved Raw Asparagus with Lemon Dressing
- 10 Hottest Sustainable Denim Companies for Men's and Women's Jeans
- 5 Gorgeous Climbing Vines to Plant for a Flowing, Bohemian-Chic Container Garden
- 10 Eco-Friendly All-Purpose Cleaners for a Clean, Toxic Chemical-Free Home
Transportation
After Walkability and Transit Quality, Walk Score Now Ranks Cities by Bikeability
These types of rankings are important because they help put pressure on under-performing cities to improve, and they highlight the best practices of top cities for others to copy.
- Beautiful and Powerful: Audi's E-Bike Wörthersee
- Elegant Bike Light That's Hard to Steal
- Nissan to Follow LEAF with 3 New Electric Cars Models
- Toyota Launches Pixis Epoch Minivehicle in Japan (70 MPG US for <$10K)
- Crowd-Sourced Map of NYC's Bike Share Stations Unveiled
- Tesla Model S Electric Sedan has Greater Driving Range than Expected (320 Miles)
- Cyclists and Pedestrians Keep Getting Killed By Trucks When The Solution Is Easy: Mandatory Side Guards
- Beautiful New Brammo Empulse Electric Motorcycle Finally Unveiled!
Technology
Little Sun Solar Light Is Both Life Saver and Work of Art
Solar lighting for rural and developing areas is a solution to the real problem of toxic kerosene lamps, but this little LED light strives to be a work of art too.
- 15 Concepts and Solutions for Providing Clean Drinking Water
- 'Bio Computer' Blends Tech and Organic to Grow Wheatgrass
- Photovoltaic Eye Implants Could Make the Blind See
- Howcast Launches Video Website, Shows You How To Do Anything
- Software Provides Minute by Minute Solar Power Forecasts
- Sleek Wooden Wind Turbine Is an Antidote to NIMBYism
- Story of Send Shows You How Google Emails Get From Here to There
Science
First Satellite Study of Manta Rays Reveals New Areas for Conservation
Manta Rays are big animals and they need a lot of space -- but how much an where? A new study tracks just where the rays go.
- GM Cotton Fails to Raise Yields in India, Despite Large Increase in Planting
- Statistical Analysis Shows 2 Degree Temperature Rise Zones in North America
- World's First Vegetarian Shark Prefers Heads of Lettuce
- Fewer Americans Believe Climate Change Is Not Happening Than We Think
- Poaching Threatens Malaysia's Tiger Conservation Goals
- Incredibly Detailed 121MP Photos of Earth With Colors Like You've Never Seen
- If You Put All Earth's Water In One Place, It'd Look Like This
- U.S. Navy's Sonars and Explosives Could Hurt more Dolphins and Whales Than Previously Thought
Energy
Charcoal Kills 2 Million People & Vast Swaths of Forest Every Year. Can Biofuel Stop the Carnage?
A new venture seeks to produce sustainably farmed, clean-burning biofuel, turn a profit, and end the ills of charcoal in Mozambique—in one fell swoop.
- Grid-Scale Metal Liquid Batteries Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy Use
- US Navy Thinks Renewable Energy is the Future, But House Republicans Don't Want Them to Have It
- Two-Thirds of US Land Leased by Oil Industry Not Used
- Coal Use in United States Drops to 36% of Electricity Generation
- Amory Lovins Wants us to 'Reinvent Fire' with 50-Year Energy Plan
- A Mother's Day Without Pollution
- New Bill Unveiled to Kill $113 Billion in Fossil Fuel Subsidies
- 7 Big East Coast Polluting Power Plants, Plus One Showing A Cleaner Way Forward
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