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surfboards

Could wool fibers replace glass fibers in FRP?

In New Zealand, surfboard maker Paul Barron has developed a new wild and wooly composite.

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter in Sustainable Product Design February 21, 2019

Obama Presidential Center faces legal challenge from park preservationists

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 21, 2019

One mom dishes on the challenge of feeding everyone different things

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 21, 2019

The mystery of zebra stripes just got solved

Ilana Strauss

By Ilana Strauss February 21, 2019

World's largest bee, lost since 1981, rediscovered in the wild

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer February 21, 2019

British teen hatches duckling from supermarket egg

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 21, 2019

Get ready for pushback in the war on plastic

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 21, 2019

15 practices of a waste-conscious home cook

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 21, 2019

Coal company pledges to ... mine less coal

Corporate Responsibility

By Sami Grover February 21, 2019

Trump may use climate change funds to build his wall

Ilana Strauss

By Ilana Strauss February 21, 2019

Farm Burger introduces invasive species sandwich

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer February 21, 2019

Meet Neptune’s tiny new moon, beautifully named after a mythological seahorse

Natural Sciences

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer February 21, 2019

Photo: Small salamander, big personality

Reader's Photos

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer February 21, 2019

What it's like to live in an off-grid yurt for 2 years (Video)

Kimberley Mok

By Kimberley Mok February 20, 2019

It's curtains for indoor air pollution with IKEA's new GUNRID fabric

Sustainable Product Design

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 20, 2019

Why don't people understand winter coats?

Sustainable Fashion

Ilana Strauss

By Ilana Strauss February 20, 2019

Here's how many trees it would take to cancel out climate change

Ilana Strauss

By Ilana Strauss February 20, 2019

Why are we so fixated on keeping kids indoors?

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko February 20, 2019

ISA builds a tiny tower in Philadelphia

Green Architecture

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 20, 2019

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Red-footed Tortoise

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World's largest bee, lost since 1981, rediscovered in the wild

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daily news

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How to freeze food in glass jars

Day-old water

Is day-old water safe to drink?

finland universal basic income experiment

Everyone is ignoring the most interesting result from Finland's basic income experiment

messy hair

I finally found a perfect shampoo alternative

creamy pasta bake

6 strategies for reducing meat in your diet

veggie burger

How to be a reducetarian

beef cattle

Cutting out meat and dairy is the best thing you can do for the planet

Vegan nurses

7 things that happened to these nurses after going vegan for 21 days