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Phyto-Purification Shower Filters Gray-Water with Grass

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Jun Yasumoto This very well may be the strangest green bathroom shower concept we’ve seen in quite awhile. The Phyto-Purification Bathroom concept wants to both make you feel like you’re showering in a pond and recycle your gray water. While strange, it is actually a very compelling design in how it thinks through the process of filtering water through natural processes. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Asian Rice Yields Drop As Climate Change Warms Nighttime Temperatures

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photo: @marco via flickr Just as Lester Brown writes about rising temperatures leading to rising food prices , a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details the connection, already evident and likely to become more so, between rising temperatures and declining rice yield… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Read a Sample Chapter of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil

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Image credit: Ed Kashi This post was written by Peter Maass whose book Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil is now available in paperback . In Nigeria, the oil has not stopped leaking. While residents around the Gulf of Mexico breathe a sigh of relief over the BP spill’s capping, an oil disaster continues in Nigeria. Due to the recklessness of multinational oil companies, as well as a simmering war between a corr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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