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7 Ways to Green Your Everyday Routine

January 26, 2012

Image by Ben / Creative Commons People are constantly talking about “going green” or being more environmentally-friendly, but what does that really mean? Does it mean you have to change the entire way you live your life? Should you get &#82…

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One Simple Way to Conserve Water at Home: Take a Navy Shower!

January 25, 2012

Want to save an extra 50+ gallons of water each and every day? Here’s one way you may not have considered before: take a navy shower!
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Floating, Desalinating “Solar Cucumbers” Could Be the Future of Water Purification

December 19, 2011

Phil Pauley, a designer from the UK, has come up with a concept that might just revolutionize desalinating technology: “solar cucumbers.”
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Harnessing the Sun’s Energy for Water and Space Heating

December 15, 2011

The pace of solar energy development is accelerating as the installation of rooftop solar water heaters takes off. Unlike solar photovoltaic (PV) panels that convert solar radiation into electricity, these “solar thermal collectors” use the sun’s energy to heat water, space, or both.
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World Toilet Day to Tackle Global Sanitation Issues

November 14, 2011

November 19, 2011 is World Toilet Day. Toilets stop disease by keeping fecal matter out of drinking water.

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Review: No-Spill Water Bottles by Contigo

November 13, 2011

Contigo Addison AUTOSPOUT™ Water Bottle
Contigo Swish AUTOSEAL® Water Bottle

We have been on the search for good reusable water bottles that don’t leak and that we like for a long time.   Last winter we discovered the Contigo 17 oz. …

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To Fight Oil Spills, An Open-Source Swarm of Robotic Sailboats (Video)

October 20, 2011

Ask anyone who lives in the Gulf or the Niger Delta: oil spills are very nasty, and they don’t clean themselves up. Chemical dispersants can make spills worse. And deploying hundreds of people in boats to run the clean-up presents a host of health ha…

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To Fight Oil Spills, An Open-Source Swarm of Robotic Sailboats (Video)

October 20, 2011

Ask anyone who lives in the Gulf or the Niger Delta: oil spills are very nasty, and they don’t clean themselves up. Chemical dispersants can make spills worse. And deploying hundreds of people in boats to run the clean-up presents a host of health ha…

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Toxic Algae Bloom in Lake Erie Worst in Decades

October 15, 2011

Blooming Lake Erie. Photo Credit: NASA EO

Pure Michigan is a slogan used in the Great Lakes State, to bring in tourists and celebrate the beauty of nature. You probably won’t be seeing these images in any Pure Michigan ad campaign. They’re of algae, …

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Human Waste Dumped into Oceans Harms Coral, New Study Reveals

October 9, 2011

Dead coral, Elbow Reef, Key Largo, Florida. Credit: HalBrindley.com

Elkhorn coral is endangered. And it’s being threatened by us, as in humans, and what we flush down the toilet.

A recent study published in the journal PLoS One says that human sewa…

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