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Sustainable Agriculture

Conserving and enhancing biodiversity and developing more sustainable and productive agricultural systems.

Sustainable Architecture

Environmentally-conscious design techniques that minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by enhancing efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, and space.

Sustainable Eco Videos

A collection of environmentally friendly videos about all things sustainable including new eco technology, living green, how to videos, money saving tips for energy consumption and so much more.

Geothermal Sustainability

Sustainable energy generated by heat thats either stored deep in the earth, or collected from the absorbed heat derived from the atmosphere and oceans.

Government and Industry Sustainability

Information on the efforts and/or failures of government and industry to become more sustainable and ecologically responsible.

Sustainable Alternative Materials

New and innovative eco-friendly materials and the science and ingenuity that create them.

Recycling for Sustainability

Processing used materials into new products in order to reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air and water pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Solar Power Sustainability

Information about the emerging use of technology and products that harness the light and radiant heat from the Sun.

Sustainable Technology and Gadgets

News and innovations in the growing global markets of sustainable products and technology.

Sustainable Tidal Energy

Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a kind of hydropower that converts the energy of ocean tides into electricity or other forms of power.

Sustainable Transportation

From fuel-efficient cars to bullet trains, examining the design and manufacture of cleaner, greener transportation.

Wind Turbine Sustainability

The conversion using wind turbines of wind energy into useful forms like electricity.

US Rejects Keystone XL Canada Oil Sands Pipeline

20 January 2012

The US state department has officially said no to the Keystone pipeline, a controversial 1600-mile long crude oil pipeline that would have run from the Alberta tar sands. The state department denied the permit, saying it had insufficient time to review the plans. President Barack Obama said he was disappointed that the deadline set by [...]

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Chevron To Pay Ecuador $18 Billion in Damages

07 January 2012

A court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador has upheld the ruling against Chevron that ordered the company to pay 18 billion USD in damages for chemicals spillage in the rainforests of the Amazon. The court made the announcement on Tuesday saying “We ratify the ruling of February 14 2011 in all its parts, including the sentence [...]

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Wildfires Ravage Chilean Rainforest

03 January 2012

Just less than a week after it started, Chilean President Sebastien Pinera, has announced that the enormous wildfire that has destroyed over 30,000 acres, has been contained. The fire, which was started by a tourist who didn’t properly put out a small fire he made with some cardboard, spread quickly throughout Chile’s Torres del Paine [...]

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Canada Refuses to Renew Kyoto Agreement

20 December 2011

Kyoto Agreement is a movement by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Changes (UNFCCC) whereby, countries that enter into the agreement bound themselves to reduce their emission of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulphur hexafluoride. Such gases are called greenhouse gases that largely cause global warming. The aim of Kyoto Agreement is basically [...]

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Monsanto Declared Worst Company of the Year

12 December 2011

Another proud moment for Monsanto; the company has been given the Worst Company of 2011 Award for its numerous crimes against protecting human health and the environment. The award was given by NaturalSociety after thousands of readers voted Monsanto the worst company of 2011. “Considering the fact that Monsanto’s global GMO push has threatened environmental [...]

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Global Carbon Emissions at Record High

04 December 2011

Global carbon emissions have reached a record 10 billion tons, which is a huge increase of almost 50% in the last twenty years. The study by the Global Carbon Project says a slowdown in emissions during the 2008-09 global financial crisis wasn’t enough to make a positive impact, and the gain in 2011 followed a [...]

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2011 is 10th Hottest Year on Record

29 November 2011

Today the World Meteorological Organization released a report that shows 2011 to be the 10th hottest year ever recorded, and they say that human-caused global warming is the reason. “Our science is solid and it proves unequivocally that the world is warming and that this warming is due to human activities,” said WMO Deputy Secretary-General [...]

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Mexico Seeing Worst Drought in 7 Decades

27 November 2011

Mexico is suffering from the most severe drought its seen in 70 years. The drought has killed huge numbers of farm animals, has destroyed innumerable crops and worst of all – is expected to continue into 2012. Over 70% of Mexico, including Coahuila, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas have been affected by the [...]

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Where To Get a Heritage Turkey

19 November 2011

Organic turkey is a far, far better choice this Thanksgiving, especially compared to the antibiotic-laden turkeys available at your local big box chain grocery store. In fact, those pale, plastic wrapped meatsicles can hardly be called birds. For the true sustainable Thanksgiving dinner, you must find yourself a heritage turkey. Heritage Turkeys are the true [...]

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Aircraft Carrier-Sized Asteroid Narrowly Misses Earth

08 November 2011

Asteroid 2005 YU55 zipped past the Earth at about 29,000 miles per hour tonight (that’s 8 miles a second) at about 6:28 p.m. EST. “It is the first time since 1976 that an object of this size has passed this closely to the Earth. It gives us a great chance to study a near-Earth object [...]

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This is a six-frame movie of the 2005 YU55 asteroid that passed by Earth closer than the distance of the moon on November 8, 2011. The movie data is from radar data that was obtained on November 7, 2011 with NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar. The asteroid was appox. 860,000 miles from earth when the footage was taken and was 200,000 miles from Earth at it’s closest approach. The resolution is 4 meters per pixel and is looped 5 times.

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