Can Your iPhone Save a Rainforest? Nurturing Virtual Trees to Save Real Ones

Image credit: SyncStudios I’ve never been much of a gamer, but I did always enjoy the constructive challenges posed by games like SimCity and its later spin offs. That’s why I kind of liked the idea of a Facebook game that lets you nurture virtual chickens, and rescue real ones too .

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Sustainable Dreaming (and Eating) in the Jungles of Costa Rica

One afternoon in March of 1995, I was on a family vacation in Costa Rica and witnessed something that changed my life forever.

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Sustainable Dreaming (and Eating) in the Jungles of Costa Rica

Awesome Self-Built Strawbale Music Studio: The Strawdio Rocks (Video)

Image credit: The Journey So i have clearly become mildly obsessed with The Journey TV —the travelling documentary project that has shown us videos on an underused train station turned gardening hub , activists’ work to restore 600 square miles of ancient Caledonian forest ,

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Michigan Solar Panel Factory’s Labor-Intensive Assembly Tasks Moved To Mexico

ECD, 5.6 kw UNI-SOLAR® product installation example in Heilbrunn Germany.

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Michigan Solar Panel Factory’s Labor-Intensive Assembly Tasks Moved To Mexico

Building a Home With Zero Money: Impossible?

Image credit: Dominic Alves /Creative Commons A seasoned dumpster diver who lived without cash for a year , Mark Boyle—aka the Moneyless Man—knows more than most about getting by without money.

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Even Logged Rainforest Holds High Biodiversity Levels & Is Worth Protecting: Study

Logged forest on left, unlogged forest on right… photo: Wakx via flickr Conventional political wisdom on rainforest degradation is that once you’ve logged an area once, or even twice, removing the largest most valuable trees, the forest becomes degraded to the point that biodiversity losses make it not worth protecting

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Thailand Attempts to Solve Overfishing By Dumping Tanks, Trains and Trucks into Sea (Video)

Thailand has decided to dump 27 army tanks, 273 old train carts, and 198 garbage trucks into the sea. It’s a whole lot of scrap metal hitting the ocean floor, but it’s all in an effort to create an artificial reef to solve the problem of overfishing. Government officials believe that by providing more habitat for species, the fishing industry can be sustained.

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Facebook Game Rescues Virtual Chickens, and Real Ones Too

Image credit: Farm Rescue From unborn chicks injected with antibiotics , to the horrors of a commercial chicken hatchery , the life of a factory farmed chicken is pretty brutish from the outset. And we haven’t even gotten into the potential health hazards posed by meat unfit for KFC being served to our kids .

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Waste as Resource: The Unintended Consequences of Zero Waste

Image credit: Just for Sharing Ideas I was chatting with a friend who took objection to my post on anaerobic digestion . He had no problem with the concept of finding uses for waste, but cautioned that we often think uncritically about what happens next. After all, once you start using waste, it’s no longer waste.

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Honor and Serve Outdoors this September 11th

The Sierra Club is excited to announce a new opportunity to participate in the growing youth-driven movement to engage in community service while also honoring those who defend our country every day. This week we launched Serve Outdoors , a call to participate in the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembr…

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