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Meet the Double Impact Leaders!
Since Double Impact is all about making smart, green choices to help support important charities, we want to recognize the users that are making the biggest contributions. We asked the top 5 Double...
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Warming World May Release Stored Carbon From Tropical Forest Soils
photo: Dr Emma Sayer Both calculating how many carbon emissions are stored in forests and how this changes over time is a complicated business, but we certainly know that they are massive stores of...
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Mindfully Looking at The Way of Natural History (Book Review)
The Way of Natural History , edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner and published by Trinity University Press (Texas), recently came across my desk for review. The premise of the compilation is to bring...
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Andy Griffith’s "Mayberry" Goes Solar
From a stunning Victorian bridge turned solar power station to o ld houses being retrofitted with solar panels , there’s plenty of symbolism around as the past gives way to a clean energy future. As a...
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On Martin Luther, Steve Jobs & Ecologizing Capitalism
Image: Library of Congress via Wikipedia : “The room in Wartburg where Luther translated the New Testament into German.” At a time when the Tea Party, Occupy Movement and climate scientists and...
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The DOE and NREL Team Up on 3 Projects to Improve Battery Life for Electric...
Photo via Shutterstock Regardless of how you generate the electricity you need to power your electric vehicle, the car needs an efficient and cost-effective way of storing the energy. The Department...
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Steven Holl Architects Design Green-Roofed Ecology and Planning Museum For...
China is renowned for its soaring developments, and among the most fascinating is the Tianjin Ecocity , an urban regeneration which is rising from a reclaimed salt pan and once heavily polluted area...
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UN Says the World Is On Course to Run Out of Water
The world is on a crash course to run out of freshwater, according to United Nation’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. At yesterday’s UN’s International Day of Biological Diversity , Ban Ki-moon...
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Photographer Helps Build His Own Home Deep in the Hungarian Forest in Just...
Read the rest of Photographer Helps Build His Own Home Deep in the Hungarian Forest in Just Two Days Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture , Bence Turanyi , budapest , Budapest...
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Pope Francis is Writing an Encyclical to Address Pressing Environmental Issues
Income inequality isn’t the only important issue Pope Francis is taking on. Add environmental protection to the list as the Argentinian-born leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics has begun...
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VIDEO: Procter & Gamble’s Dirty Practices are Destroying the Forest and...
Many of you may be familiar with Procter & Gamble’s “ Thank You, Mom ” campaign, which features several cute tots learning how to walk, swim, and more. But there’s another, less than adorable side...
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Plants Know When They’re Being Eaten and They Don’t Appreciate it
Vegetarians and vegans pay heed, new research shows plants know when they’re being eaten. And they don’t like it. That plants possess an intelligence is not new knowledge, but according to Modern...
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Architect team weaves the Mississippi River’s only waterfall into...
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Solar Cabin: modular refugee housing with an energy-generating solar field
With prefabricated gypsum walls and a western red cedar facade, Solar Cabin is an aesthetically-pleasing design that offers profound environmental and social benefits. Comprised of a modular kit of...
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Dangerously low biodiversity levels could trigger ecological recession,...
Biodiversity has dropped dangerously low across more than half of the world’s land surface, according to a new report published in the journal Science . The study, led by researchers from University...
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Mother trees recognize kin and send them "messages of wisdom"
More information continues to surface that trees may be far more connected than we thought. Forest ecologist Suzanne Simard of The University of British Colombia gave a TED talk in June, during which...
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Eco-friendly Syrian refugee housing that anyone would love to call home
Building refugee housing often means fast construction at the expense of beauty and quality, but that doesn’t have to be the case if we take German architect Werner Sobek’s work as any indication....
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The mystery of Namibia’s desert fairy circles may have been solved
The truth is out there… in Namibia . Inhabitat previously reported on the mysterious “fairy circles” that have appeared without explanation in the Namib Desert for millennia. Over the past several...
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50% of Earth’s species face extinction by 2100
Biologists, economists, and ecologists have gathered at the Vatican to discuss what actions humanity can take to preserve Earth’s biosphere . Attending the Biological Extinction conference, these...
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Doughnut Economics: the long-sought alternative to endless growth
Finding a healthy alternative to the prevailing growth model that has strained the planet to bursting is the holy grail of environmental economics. And it looks like maybe we’ve found it. George...
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