Controlling heat loss, lighting, and waste can make for an energy-efficient and green Halloween celebration at home. (Photo: Sunnking)
Hey folks, Halloween is almost here. My kids can hardly contain themselves with excitement no matter how much I tell them that the current observance of an old tradition has been transformed into an annual feeding frenzy [...]

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Photographer Tim Simmons in a commission called The Urban Land Project aims to challenge people to reflect and reconnect with their surroundings.
For many city dwellers, the only glimpses of beautiful nature they’ll have on a regular day would be in the images of their desktop nature themes or screen savers. Unless you live near an [...]

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American carmaker General Motors Corporation has shown that recycling can be an excellent profit source for any manufacturing business. (Photo: The Motor Report)
We seem to be hearing a lot about General Motors these days. A few months ago, we wrote about their zero waste initiative and just last month, we reported that GM was also [...]

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Saferay has built a 78 MW solar plant on land that used to be an open pit mine in Senftenberg, Germany. (Photo: Saferay)
What do you do with an abandoned open pit mine with the surrounding soil contaminated by years worth of toxic mining by-products? In America, we’ll probably declare the location a Superfund site, fill [...]

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