Bamboo Screens Shade Stunning French Passivhaus

One of the key elements of Passivhaus design has been the use of generous south-facing glazing for passive solar gain.

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Are You as Sick of Sustainability as I Am?

It seems that everywhere you turn these days, sustainability is the hot topic. While this is a good thing — and a needed one — people are already getting green fatigue

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Consider the 4 Things That Actually Matter This Earth Day

Image via Earth’ s Hope To a few too many self-proclaimed environmentalists, Earth Day is sort of like what Christmas is to non-churchgoing Christians — a day to get involved, feel you’re doing your part, and unintentionally leave it at that for the rest of the year (is that incendiary? If so, woops).

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Terra-Riffic Pens From Shepenco

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of Proforma Green Marketing, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see  proformagreen.com ). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry

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Treadmill Bike Gets You Running On Two Wheels (Video)

Image via Red Ferret We love random human-powered vehicles. The weirder the better , at least most of the time, because it stirs up creativity and hopefully gets people out and about without the use of fossil fuels or coal powered electricity.

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Greenland Ice Cover Loss Shown with New Earth-Space Monitoring System (Video)

Image via YouTube video A new combined Earth-Space monitoring system is helping geophysicists and climatologists watch the ice coverage of Greenland and monitor how the ice mass is shifting north. A short video animating the change is startling, and the data also documents for the first time what happens with “crustal uplift” as the heavy ice sheets melt off. Because of the change in surface make-up, the bigger glaciers of the northwest are skidding downhill faster, and the main outlet glaciers are said to have more than doubled their contributio..

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5 Mistakes Businesses Make Trying to Go Green

If you’ve been shopping, watching TV or surfing the web at all, you’ve undoubtedly noticed all of the companies taking their products and services green . While this is generally a good thing, we can’t help but notice some brands  going about it in all the wrong ways : producing useless ‘eco’ wares that defeat the purpose of being made of sustainable materials or even blatantly  greenwashing

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Aquatic Dead Zones Produce Greenhouse Gas 300X More Potent Than CO2

We’ve heard a lot lately about the relationship between global warming and the ocean . An article in Thursday’s Journal of Science describes how aquatic dead zones — or hipoxic waters — create trouble for more than the organisms that live in the waters .

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Can Biodiesel Be Green? The Sustainable Biodiesel Summit

Image credit: Sustainable Biodiesel Summit Biodiesel is one of those funny things. Back when TreeHugger first started, Daryl Hannah was waxing lyrical about the benefits of biodiesel , and Whole Foods was going biodiesel

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US Uses Less Water Than It Did a Generation Ago As Global Concern Grows Over Scarcity

The United States is using less water than it did 35 years ago, which is a good thing given the rising concern about water issues among investors and stakeholders worldwide, new information released this week shows.

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