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  Reducing Water Consumption at Home

  There are many effective ways to reduce water consumption at home. If we are not convinced to do it for environmental reasons, then we should do it to...

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  Reducing Food Waste as Part of Eco-Living

  Living in an environmentally sound and friendly world is not just about saving energy and water, or about reducing emissions – but rather, about red...

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  Free Eating: Freeganism

  A new eco-trend has sprung up recently - the so called freeganism - and it is a trend that will surely surprise many of us. It is referred to as an an...

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  How to generate less trash

  An average person produces several hundred pounds of trash every year. Part of the garbage is segregated and re-used as raw material (recycling). This...

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  The Future of Transportation: Noise and Emissions Reduction

  Simply urging the populations of large cities to make the transition from regular vehicles to green cars powered by biofuel will yield rather poor res...

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  Deadly Waste: How Your Shopping Habits Affect the Green Sea Turtle

  The colourful mosaic in the picture represents the plastic waste that was found in the digestive tract of a sea turtle. The animal was found dead wash...

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  Angry Planet: A Lesson Learned?

  As the recent devastating tsunami in Japan has shown us (yet again) we truly are merely the stewards of our planet and surely not her masters, as man...

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  Our Life, Our Planet, Our Future

  It is truly difficult to envision a coincidence more astounding than the beginning of Life. The number of sporadic and unrelated events that needed to...

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  David vs. Goliath

  Like in any good Hollywood tear-jerker, the David and Goliath saga that was the battle between a small town and an oil giant in which the seemingly po...

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  Getting It Right... Sometimes

  Global warming and climate change, massive oil spills, animals fighting for survival amidst a changing environment and people encroaching on their...

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