give flowers a break.

Cut flowers are kind of like crushes: they’re fun, fleeting and usually end up nowhere. While flowers are pretty, the flower industry is not. Most cut flowers are grown in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia in large greenhouses where underpaid, non-unionized workers spray them heavily with pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides, including those that are banned in the US, like DDT and methyl-bromide.

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Adjustable Liquid-Filled Lenses Provide Vision to the Developing World

Today over 1 billion people around the world need — but lack — access to eyeglasses.

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size matters.

If you’re saving up for a big-screen HDTV, don’t forget to factor in the increase to your electric bill. According to a study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC), size does matter when talking about tv and the energy it uses.

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Lab-Grown Lungs Successfully Transplanted into Rats for First Time

Having written previously about a synthetic lung on a chip that would provide an alternative to animal testing for toxic substances, this development caught our eye: researchers at Harvard Medical School have now grown lungs from living cells and successfully transplanted them into rats, who used them to breathe for up to six hours. The process suggests that humans with end-stage lung disease could one day have their lungs replaced with the petri-dish variety.

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Stunning Swedish Treehotel Opens This Weekend!

Read the rest of Stunning Swedish Treehotel Opens This Weekend! http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design , eco-friendly strategies , green design , hotel , mirrorcube , prefab construction , Sustainable Building , Sweden , swedish tree hotel , treehotel , treehouse , Treehouses , water efficiency

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Scientists Crack Code of How to Live Past 100: Vegetarianism, Religion, Good Genes

Image via Dezinerfolio A group of US scientists studying human longevity believe they’ve gathered some invaluable evidence in the quest to predict which people will live to be older than 100. Based on genetic ’signposts’, the scientists have worked out a mathematical model that determines a person’s chance of living to be a centenarian. To gather the data, they looked at the biggest study yet done on centenarians, and found that there were common lifestyle choices and habits amongst those who lived longest: Vegetarianism, avoidance of alcohol, and a strong religion, to name a few

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Six Selfish Reasons You Don’t Want Dead Oceans

Photo by foodiesathome.com via flickr.

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A Buddhist Monk’s Vegetarian Diet to Minimize Chemical Exposure

Image via: Wonderlane /Flickr Weekday vegetarians ready to ramp up their meatless-ness may find inspiration in this recently released study in Environmental Health News .

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Waterlife.

With the oil spill still spilling in the Gulf of Mexico, Greenissexy has water health on the brain so we turned to the award winning documentary Waterlife to explore more of North America’s most precious resource.   Directed by Kevin McMahon and narrated by the Tragically Hip’s Gordon Downie, Waterlife takes us on an epic journey through the mighty Great Lakes – their long history and their potentially fragile future

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the green party

> Spring has sprung and there’s lots to celebrate!  Whether you’re cooking up plans to host a birthday, wedding, graduation or other party, keep it sexy and green with a few simple tips:   location, location, location :  Pick a spot that’s centrally located to most of your guests to cut back on commuter emissions.  Choosing a spot on a convenient mass-transit route is also a good way to help guests keep their cars parked at home.  If the venue is farther away (for a wedding, for example), encourage guests to carpool. decorations/shmecorations :  When dressing your party, try to incorporate items that will live on in other ways when the last guest has left the party, or ones that can be used up completely.  Decorating with potted plants or dishes filled with fruits and vegetables is a good way to add color to a room without buying a bunch of junk.  Instead of streamers, consider strips of scrap fabric or ribbons that can be used for wrapping gifts throughout the year.  Soy-based candles can add ambience, as can images of the guest of honor, projected from a computer onto a blank wall.  Get creative!  Low-impact party decorating can save money and means you’re not left storing a bunch of junk later

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