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May 15, 2014
The Hemp Revolution
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Itai Lahat
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 [...]
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May 15, 2014
Why Kiribatian farmer, Ioane Teitiota, declared himself to be the world’s first ever Climate change refugee
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Itai Lahat
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 [...]
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May 15, 2014
Scars in the land
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Itai Lahat
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 [...]
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March 28, 2014
The real cost of your fish
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Itai Lahat
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 [...]
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March 25, 2014
Press Review: Asia’s coasts to be first casualties of rising sea levels
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Rebecca Silus
Here hundreds of millions of people will lose their homes and face food insecurity, disease, and shortages of clean drinking water. Although [...]
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March 12, 2014
Step Forward Paper
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Itai Lahat
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, [...]
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March 05, 2014
The Green Loop
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Redaktion
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 [...]
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February 26, 2014
A lower-carbon cryptocurrency
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Itai Lahat
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 [...]
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February 23, 2014
Operation to save Earth’s most threatened tribe: first stage complete
org:
Survival International
The Awá are internationally recognized as Earth’s most threatened tribe, as their forest is being destroyed at an alarmingly fast pace, and [...]
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February 20, 2014
"The power of a rainforest in the palm of your hand"
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Itai Lahat
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 [...]
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February 13, 2014
Climate change: Politics, academia and the media
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Jonathan Lutes
Yet, some politicians and members of the media refute the scientific approach and preach untruths in order to distract the public from the impending [...]
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February 12, 2014
New climate deal for Europe
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Itai Lahat
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 [...]
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February 05, 2014
This Good World
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Itai Lahat
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 [...]
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January 29, 2014
Light it up with the sun
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Itai Lahat
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 [...]
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January 22, 2014
Glass roof tiles that heat your home
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Itai Lahat
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 [...]
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January 20, 2014
Mercury in Indonesia
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Jonathan Lutes
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 [...]
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