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Dual-Flush Toilet Retrofit, With Adjustable Flush (Video)

Image credit: Brondell Simple Flush Dual-flush toilets have always been popular here on TreeHugger. After all, it seems insane to use the same amount of drinking water to flush your number ones as your number twos. (It actually seems insane to use drinking water at all, but that’s another story.) But rather than just advocating ripping out your old fixture—we’ve always been keen on adapting your old throne. From the

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Dual-Flush Toilet Retrofit, With Adjustable Flush (Video)

World’s Smallest Hydroponic Grow Box: Twitter Enabled

Image credit: PocketGrow Whether we are talking about open source, automated garden monitors , more efficient industrial monocultures , or discussing whether soilless farming can be organic , many of our readers seem to have a strong dislike of overly techno-fix approaches to growin… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s Smallest Hydroponic Grow Box: Twitter Enabled

Centuries-Old State of the Art Still Useful Today

The 2,000-year-old aqueduct system found in the Turkish town of Patara would have met current engineering standards. Photo by Jennifer Hattam Outside the southeastern Turkish city of Mardin lie the 6th-century ruins of the Roman settlement of Dara, with its cliff-carved tombs and cool, vaulted cisterns . But perhaps most impressive is the series of rock channels that served as an early water-treatment plant, allowing dirt and… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Centuries-Old State of the Art Still Useful Today