Joos Solar Charger Tested In A Tub of Water In The Shade, Still Charges (Video)

Photo via press release The Joos Solar Charger makes some bold claims. First, the company states that it generates 20 times the charge of other personal solar chargers on the market.

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Joos Solar Charger Tested In A Tub of Water In The Shade, Still Charges (Video)

Lifestyle Adjustments, As Poverty Comes To The American Suburbs

Food pantry. Image credit: St. Louis Post Dispatch, (Laurie Skrivan/P-D) The era in which increasing numbers of people were willing to pay a premium for locally grown food or for ‘organic’ clothing appears to be ending

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Scientists Aim to Learn More About Tiny Anteaters

Photos: Projeto Tamanduá Very little is know about Silky anteaters, which make their home in the Amazon rainforest , other than the fact that they’re tiny, nocturnal, ant-loving, and of course, incredibly cute. But, in hopes of learning more about these fascinating little creatures, soon scientists will be venturing out into the jungles of Brazil to observe them in the wild–where they hope to find its population strong and stable, unlike those of the diminutive anteater’s

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Today on Planet 100: Arctic Methane Leak (Video)

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Pig Business Exposes the Grizzly Inner Workings of the Pork Industry

Image credit: Grist Pig business is not an easy documentary to watch. First of all, the images of the inner workings of pig farms and slaughterhouses can turn the stomach of even the most steadfast meat-eater

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Rarest Flower in the World Blooms in the UK (PICS)

Photos via the BBC It’s one of the (if not the ) rarest flower in the world: the Middlemist’s Red exists in only two known locations: a greenhouse in the UK, and a garden in New Zealand. Imported to Britain two hundred years ago from China, back when flowers where a luxury item, it has since been exterminated in its original homeland

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Young Farmers are Combining Politics with Pitchforks

Image credit: Good The life of a farmer is a difficult one—meaning, for most, years of hard work, little money, and even less appreciation. Maybe it is this reason that passing down the family farm has become an increasingly difficult proposition…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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5 Mistakes Businesses Make While Trying to Go Green

If you’re reading Inhabitat, you’re no doubt aware of how popular the ‘green’ trend has become. Businesses have finally started to realize that the environmental movement is here to stay, and that there is money to be made in going green .

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5 Mistakes Businesses Make While Trying to Go Green

5 Mistakes Businesses Make While Trying to Go Green

If you’re reading Inhabitat, you’re no doubt aware of how popular the ‘green’ trend has become. Businesses have finally started to realize that the environmental movement is here to stay, and that there is money to be made in going green .

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5 Mistakes Businesses Make While Trying to Go Green

5 Mistakes Businesses Make While Trying to Go Green

If you’re reading Inhabitat, you’re no doubt aware of how popular the ‘green’ trend has become. Businesses have finally started to realize that the environmental movement is here to stay, and that there is money to be made in going green . This is something that Inhabitat readers and concerned citizens should be happy about… sort of

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