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New Loo Design: (Sh)It's a Commodity!
Industrial designer Virginia Gardiner has designed not just a new toilet, but a new closed-loop management system that will allow individuals to, basically, recycle their poop. Yeah, I just said that.
But give her idea a few minutes of your attention, because it's really not as gnarly as it sounds.
A student of the Design London school at Imperial Co…
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Greg Craven's back!
Greg Craven says he had to write a book to pay his 'Red Bull bill' debating climate change - but can he sell 7m copies?
Two years ago a science teacher from a high school in Oregon called Greg Craven became a web phenomenon when he posted a video on YouTube entitled The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See.
In the video, which has now been viewed mo…
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UK maps climate change forecasts
A BBC article reports that a detailed forecasts of how climate change may affect the UK during this century are to be released by the government later.
The report will predict how temperature and rainfall are likely to change at regional and local scales.
Scientists believe winters will be wetter, particularly in the north, and summers drier, especia…
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Home
Watch Yann Arthus Bertrand’s film Home for free here.
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Design is the Problem
Nathan Shedroff's new book, "Design is the Problem", presents a practical and layman-accessible exploration of sustainable design. In it, he breaks the progress towards sustainability into five parts: learning how to reduce, reuse, recycle, restore, and process. And Shedroff isn't afraid to get in reader's faces about the issue, either, bluntly sta…
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Say bye bye to plastic bags
Toronto charges on plastic bags
In an effort to divert 70 % of waste from landfill, the city of Toronto has decided to charge consumers with 5 cents for every plastic bag requested from a retailer. Since last week, all the retailers must apply the fee for each plastic bag to their customers.
The city council has been running a plastic bag recycling p…
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2º C target seems to fade away
With just six months to go to the Climate Conference in Copenhagen it's worrying to see that powerful global leaders – including Obama – are still refusing to take proper action to prevent a 2C+ rise in temperatures. Josh Garman's article in the Guardian on the frustratingly slow progress at the UN climate talks in Bonn addresses the need for us al…
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Threatened Oceans
Ocean regulates our climate and are well connected to climate change, although no many people think about that. It also generates most of the oxygen we breathe, cleans the water we drink and provides us with food. However, for too long, human society has taken the world's ocean for granted.
Nowadays world's oceans is facing serious threats. Pollutio…
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Make It Green
Yahoo has a contest site for makers called Make It Green. You can submit you own green DIY projects and the inventors chosen by the winner judges get "$2,500 and a share of the sales, and possibly appear on the Everyday Edisons TV show."
Via Boing Boing
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Vote Green on June 5th
On June 5th Edenbee wants all our Irish residents to elect Deirdre de Burca and Dan Boyle to Europe to create thousands of new green jobs. Check out the Green Party website for more details or follow them on Twitter