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Doomsday Clock Moved Back a Minute: Timing Off?
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists gave us another minute, citing a more "hopeful state of world affairs" in relation to the threat of nuclear weapons. The "Turn Back the
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The 3Rs for Haiti: Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
TreeHugger is full of ingenious ideas for rapidly deployable designs that can be shipped, dropped or inflated to house the homeless after disasters. One might think that an organization called
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News from Mother Jones: Help Haiti, Whole Foods' Ungreen Ways, Gross Tap Water
Yesterday, TreeHugger rounded up a few green charities that are helping the recovery effort in Haiti after Tuesday's earthquake. MoJo's human rights reporter Mac McClelland has a few more suggestions for how to help one of the poorest and least
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Help For Haiti Earthquake Aftermath. Giving Green.
Photos: Deforestation, (OGL Haiti) and Earthquake (AFP Twitpic) UPDATE There is a good post on Worldchanging about how to follow the Haitian earthquake online. "early reports suggest that thousands are likely to be reported dead. Major landmarks,
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Biogas Systems Arrive to Haitian Slums
A pilot program is being tested in one of the poorest slums of Port-au-Prince, the capital city of the poorest nation in the Americas, Haiti. In a place where the availability of basic resources is limited and sanitary conditions are appalling, the
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RockResorts Now Recycles Barely-Used Hotel Soap and Shampoo
Finally, someone has found a way to close the loop on all of that barely-used soap and shampoo that goes to waste after hotel patrons depart one hotel for new hotels and new showers full of sample-sized soaps and
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Migrant Kids Face Increased Health Risks from Lead in NYC
The Statue of Liberty may be a welcome sight to see for many entering the U.S. from around the world, but according to a recent NYC Health Department study, immigrant children are five times as likely as those born in the U.S. to suffer from lead
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Low-Tech Solutions from High-Tech Minds
In its latest issue, GOOD Magazine has a great feature up on the doings of MIT's D-Lab - they call it "an elite unit of low-tech mercenaries" - which seeks to find simple solutions to drastically improve the quality of
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The Windbelt: Third-World Wind Power
While he was working in Haiti, inventor Shawn Frayne, one of the recipients of Popular Mechanics' 2007 Breakthrough Awards last week, recognized the need for small-scale wind power to power LED lamps and radios in impoverished homes. But conventional
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College Kids Learn Real World Lessons Of Sustainability In Haiti
What to do when you’ve heard about the poverty and environmental problems facing the people of Haiti but are unsure if the reality matches up with what you see in the media? Well, first visit to see for yourself, but then look to find a way to make a
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Campus of Hope by Studio Luz Architects
The P/A Awards from Architect magazine are out; "Every year, five respected members of the design community sit down in a room for two days to determine the current meaning of the words "progressive architecture" and select projects that fit their
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Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins
An environmental call to arms for the designer, Greenie, and business person, this book profiles the next industrial revolution and proposes that will be thoroughly green and pro-business. Companies, it claims, should model their business plains based on
