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Consider this: Industrial hemp has a lot going for it, both for the grower and the consumer, because not only does growing hemp use much less water than similar crops, and doesn't need herbicides, pesticides, or [...]

The Republic of Kiribati (pronounced KIRR-i-bas) is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The country consists of 32 atolls [...]

A lot has been said about the ills of factory farming. Factory farms dominate today the global food production, employing abusive practices that maximize agribusiness profits at the expense of the [...]

The phenomena is called Bycatch and it includes sea organisms thrown back after being hauled up by nets, lines, and trawls, in the process of fishing. The scale of this have been revealed last week by a new report [...]

Here hundreds of millions of people will lose their homes and face food insecurity, disease, and shortages of clean drinking water. Although [...]

Negative environmental impacts occur at three stages in the life cycle of paper, beginning with the harvesting of trees for fiber, continuing with the processing of wood fiber into pulp for making paper, [...]

Now, as the plan is taking more form and action, comes a concept plan from “Present Architecture”, a NY firm that have a Green vision of New York’s waterfronts. The concept is called Green Loop, and it suggests building [...]

Some of them use stronger encryption, others are easier to mine, and some have started as a joke and turned into real assets. In other words, crypto-currency is just growing and gaining more and [...]

The Awá are internationally recognized as Earth’s most threatened tribe, as their forest is being destroyed at an alarmingly fast pace, and [...]

But there are some bottled water companies that are doing things differently. One of them is an American company called Treeson. After Treeson water company founder Carlton [...]

Yet, some politicians and members of the media refute the scientific approach and preach untruths in order to distract the public from the impending [...]

That’s definitely good news. Why? Because it sets a standard. The world is due to meet in Paris next year to decide on a global framework for limiting human-caused climate change. The EU is [...]

The Intriguing results sparked great interest in the world. The researchers' conclusion was that consumers are willing to pay more for green products, up to 20 % more. For example, 64 % of them were willing to pay more for an [...]

Other forms of light fall between these two categories of energy efficiency and unclear health hazards. Well, basically that leaves one form of light to be extremely cheap and healthy – sunlight. Though still a [...]

A Swedish company called SolTech Energy seems to have cracked this challenge. It uses a simple but eye catching solution that provides many configurations: glass tiles. Instead of traditional [...]

As Joe Cochrane has written for the New York Times, illegal small scale gold mining and processing is conducted in people’s back yards and is funded and protected by businessmen, as well as by [...]