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This infographic, called “Death Becomes the Phone Book,” comes from the people at whitepages.com a group is behind the ‘Ban the Phone Book’ campaign to support telephone companies and consumers who want to curb unsolicited (and unnecessary) printing and delivering of white pages phone books.

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Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light), is a sustainable lighting project which aims to bring the eco-friendly Solar Bottle Bulb to disprivileged communities worldwide. Designed and developed by students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Solar Bottle Bulb is based on the principles of Appropriate Technologies — a concept that provides simple and easily replicable technologies that address basic needs in developing communities.

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Turning trash into cash is easy. Just ask the guys at TerraCycle, an established recycling and upcycling company which do exactly that. This great piece in CNN showcases the company’s great vision and profitable up-cycling business.

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In an age of environmental desperation and ‘green-washed’ architecture solutions, buildings are suffering the wrath of green ignorance and consumerism. High-tech green solutions and government subsidies for alternative technologies are shifting the construction industries towards a future of inefficiency and wastefulness – an approach which could end up doing more harm to environment than good. Can Minimalist Green Architecture be the antidote?

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When it comes to getting clean water at home, most of us turn on the tap and don’t give it a second thought. But for nearly one billion people, finding clean water is a daily struggle. Here are 10 ways to help you save water and do your bit to save this valuable resource.

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Wonder how to go green grocery shopping? If you are searching for ways to save the environment, a great place to begin is your regular trip to the grocery store. Here are some simple tips to get you started

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You may know a lot about the simple things you can do every day to protect the environment. But do your kids? Here are links to some fun, instructional videos and sites that will help younger—and older—children learn how to “go green.”

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Did you know that within a year after the release of the movie “The Graduate”, plastics manufacturing companies experienced a boom? The actor who said the line “Just one word…plastics” told his nephew later he wished he’d invested in plastics had he known the effect that one simple line would have. Today, it is evident [...]

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Cool video from the fine folks at Discovery Networks showcasing a diesel-guzzling truck that is converted to run purely on fryer oil. Take a trip with James Williams on the journey to veggie fuel automotion.

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Biomimicry technology follows Mother Nature’s lead to help green deforested areas. The Groasis waterbox is an ‘intelligent water incubator’ that captures water from rain and by condensation from the air. It enables plants to grow in any climate, including the desert, without using energy. Groasis http://www.groasis.com/  

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An art student from the UK has come up with a unique and nature-friendly design for packaging vegetables that is not only good for the environment, but is bound to encourage people to grow their own. What?! – An Eco friendly and sustainable packaging that encourages more planting and is 100% biodegradable? Are you listening Supermarkets?

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It seems we are all destined to leave our houses with radiation suits at some point in our near future unless we change the way we deal with our waste matter or we reduce the amount of waste we produce. Why not turn all that waste into something useful, like fuel for our homes?

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Making your house “green” is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and for your family. And it’s pretty simple. In addition to lowering your health risks and saving money, you are helping to protect the planet now and for future generations. Here are five green + simple steps to get you started…

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We can’t live without it. But eating the wrong types of food can actually lead to compromising our health. And it’s not just a question of obesity, which is at an all-time high. You’ve heard it before: “What you are is what you eat.” But what we put in our bodies doesn’t only affect us. It also affects the health of the planet.

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Kibera Paper is an ingenious solution that creatively and with an earth friendly approach offers a chance of creative work for the women in the slums of Nairobi

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Hemp is probably the most sustainable, eco-friendly and versatile material on the planet. So can you use it as a building material?

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Simple + Green design ideas is what we love in this site, and because we also promote them, here is perhaps a strong contender for the simplest and greenest idea ever. It generates electricity as a by-product of play.

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Greenpeace have mapped out a worldwide plan to switch the world to a completely fossil-fuel free society and expand to include the 2 billion people worldwide that are now left without power in this current fossil-fuel based energy system. The plan is ambitious but simple…

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As it currently stands, there’s not enough water to go around. It is only going to get worst unless we do something about it and we need to start locally in our homes. We need to change our attitudes towards water use and we need to do it fast. Can we afford to keep wasting clean potable water on our gardens?

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This Christmas, we are likely to share and indulge in vast amounts of food for the sake of holiday cheer. The aftermath is usually messy tables, dirty everything and a pile of dishes waiting to be cleaned by a cocktail of toxic chemicals, lurking underneath your kitchen sink. But are there any green alternatives?

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