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Hit Or Miss: Fresh Code Barcode Concept Ensures Your Produce Is Just-Picked
Images via Yanko Design A group of designers have decided that there’s got to be a better way to find the freshest produce in a supermarket. Rather than trust your own senses, they think a fading...
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Winters Were Colder in Your Parents’ Day: New England Trees Get 10 Days More...
A symptom of changing climate, Worldwatch shows us that not only are winters in New England averaging three degrees warmer than they did 100 years ago, trees have a ten day longer growing season than...
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Santa Cruz Island Bald Eagles Proud Parents of New Hatchlings, Web Cam Shows...
Photo by Alan Vernon Two bald eagles on Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands off California’s coast are the proud parents of two new hatchlings . In 2006, the parents, K-10 and K-26, were the very...
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A Surprisingly Simple Solution to a Big Climate Change Problem
Photo credit: Tormod Sandtorv / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Le Ngoc Thach, president of the Dai Nghia cooperative and one of the first SRI farmers in Ha Noi province, courtesy of...
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Sen. Jim Inhofe Sick from Swimming in Lake Where "Sustained High...
Photo: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Senator James Inhofe is, as you may be aware, the nation’s foremost Congressional climate change denier. He revels in the role, mocking Al Gore at every...
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UK Solar Prices Tumble, Boosting Rush of Installations
Image credit: Solarcentury Earlier this year, my parents installed solar PV panels on their home in England . Not long after, my brother installed solar panels too . As solar prices ahve tumbled, and...
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Are the New LEGO Friends for Girls Sexist?
LEGO rang in 2012 by launching a new line of toys , LEGO Friends, which are aimed at girls 5 and up. No big deal, right? Actually, to some it is a big deal. A petition was launched at Change.org is...
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Police Officers Keep Cool in the Heat With Air-Conditioned Bulletproof Vests
If you’ve ever seen police officers walking around in full gear during a heat wave, you’ve probably felt a little faint just looking at them. Lucky for them, scientists from the Swiss Federal...
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Danish Study Links Co-Sleeping To Decreased Risk of Obesity
Co-sleeping — when babies and young children share a bed with one or both of their parents — has now been linked to reduced obesity . According to a new Danish study, children who regularly co-sleep...
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Meet the Sustainability Sisters
Amy and Annie Longworth are both successful sustainable business professionals. Where did their parents go right? Read the original: Meet the Sustainability Sisters
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Rather than orient the two-story building towards the surrounding urban jungle, the architects turn attention inwards with the design of a ring-shaped structure centered on an inner courtyard. “The...
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A look into a Turkey sweatshops use of Syrian child labor to make ISIS uniforms
Syrian refugee children are working 12-hour shifts for a little over a dollar per hour to make ISIS uniforms in a Turkey sweatshop, according to The Daily Mail . The children, reportedly sent by their...
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10-year-old leukemia survivor wins trips to NASA with an award-winning...
Bridgette Veneris is a 10-year-old Australian who not only battled leukemia and survived, but also designed a sterile waste-saving bandage dispenser design that’s won her a trip to NASA . Veneris got...
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