A man pumps water from a well in Kabul. As many as 50 percent of wells in the Kabul Basin could become inoperative within the next 50 years. Photo by Iain Cochrane via Flickr . Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Refugees returning to the Kabul Basin in
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Thirsty Kabul Expected to Need 600% more Water by 2060
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Image credit: Good Expanding bike-share programs , increased funding , and continual reinvention : Maybe it’s just summer, but being a pedestrian seems to be a better prospect than ever. According to Good , it’s not just the weather. Their latest
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Pedestrian Power Takes a Step Up
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photo: Alan Cleaver via flickr Over at Green Biz there’s an interesting article that proposes a way to address the environmental impact of the goods we buy, as well as realign our tax code to stop penalizing the very thing we want to encourage. What if we abolished income tax for just about every single person and made up the revenue with… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What If We Abolished Income Taxes & Replaced Them With ‘Stuff Taxes’?
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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Oil Spill Gaffes (Video)
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Image: Gasland What the frack? In 2008, Josh Fox received a letter from a natural gas company. They were interested in leasing land owned by his family to do natural gas drilling. The offer was for $100,000, but instead of taking the money, Josh decided to do some research on the natural gas industry and ended up making a documentary called GASLAND. It focuses on the impact that modern natural gas extraction, which primarly uses hydraulic fracturing( aka “fracking”), has on communities and the environment. Check out the trailer below, it’s pretty good…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Burning Tap Water and More: GASLAND Exposes the Natural Gas Industry
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Image credit: the_tahoe_guy /Flickr They’re commonly known as “jellyfish” but the name is a bit of a misnomer: In fact “jellies,” or “gelatinous zooplankton,” are not fish at all. What they are, is amazing. Without bones, brains, or blood, they manage to thrive in all of the worlds oceans, in an astonishing range of depths. This versatility, however, is becoming a problem as other species are strained by steadily collapsing ecosystems .
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Jellyfish: Future Rulers of the Oceans (Slideshow)
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When Bonnie covered the 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces show at the Victoria and Albert, she missed Sean Godsell’s Picnic Table House , a clever idea where a picnic table by day becomes a homeless shelter by night. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Living With Less: Picnic Table Turns Into Shelter
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Images by B. Alter: Norway As part of the London Festival of Architecture , twenty eight embassies are celebrating the best of their country’s architecture. Strange creations like Italy’s photo-reactive skin on its front door and Helsinki in a container are popping up in unexpected places. But we loved these moss-filled rooms created by PUSHAK, a Norwegian architecture firm consisting of 4 women. Called Moss Your City , the walls and … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A pretty scathing critique of “eco-restaurants” recently ran in Newseek. Called Your Carbon Foodprint , the article honed in on the now-fully formed trend of eateries capitalizing on environmentally conscious values to appeal to a growing market — and, it charges, doing little but greenwashing in the process. The focus is on the vegetarian fast food chain Otarian , which is predictably assaulted it for committing a number of hypocrisies: Its owners don’t liv… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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In Defense of "Eco" Fast Food
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The Syncrude tar sands operation in Canada. Photo by David Dodge of the Pembina Institute. If we could go back in time before the BP Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, what would we learn? What steps would have helped avert what is now the nation’s worst environmental disaster? Could this hindsight help us prevent similar catastrophes in the future? Would our political leaders have the moral compass to “get it right” this time around?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tar Sands Poised to Become the Next Fossil Fuels Disaster
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