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Providing outdoor enthusiasts with comfortable, warm, reliable and sustainable wool clothing is what Woolpower does best. The company, above all, strives to make their clothing long-lasting, while impacting the environment as little as possible. For this reason, Woolpower constructs all clothing (base layers, mid layers, socks, etc.) with wool and… Read the rest

Living in a tiny apartment with my boyfriend is, to many of my friends’ surprise, a completely wonderful living situation for both of us. We live so comfortably together that we rarely argue about chores, bills or annoying habits. However, there’s one way in which we’re slightly different, which leads… Read the rest

Biking to work is an arguably easy way to cut down on your carbon emissions. But what city, overall, does it best? It looks as if Portland, Oregon takes the win.
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If you crane your neck up towards the western facade of Portland’s main Federal building today, you’ll see nothing but 18 stories of concrete and glass. But if plans go ahead as expected, by 2013 you could look at the same building and see a sprawling garden over 200 feet… Read the rest

Plastic is bad. We’ve established that. Yet, it remains a huge part of our everyday lives simply because no alternative has become “mainstream” yet. Let’s hope, then, that the researchers at the University of Tokyo are on to something… They’ve recently discovered that the combination of clay, water and sodium… Read the rest

I don’t have room for chickens. My backyard is the size of a king bed, and although it’s fenced in, it’s (unfortunately) nudged up against a highway with a seemingly endless stream of cars that would inevitably scare the you-know-what out of the chickens. I don’t have a garden in… Read the rest

When you venture out into the vast pool of websites that make up the internet, it’s pretty easy to notice that there are a lot of awesome sites that discuss environmental issues. To name a few, there’s TreeHugger, Mother Nature Network, Elephant Journal, and, of course, Wend. It’s time to… Read the rest

I drink water. My pets drink water. My plants drink water. The list of water-based necessities goes on and on and on. And, inevitably, the amount of water gushing out of our faucets goes on and on and… you get it. But water is not… Read the rest an abundant resource and it

How can we work to save the planet while we still have the chance? That’s usually how I try to think about things. But let’s pose this slightly more cynical question – What if we miss our chance now, and destroy the planet to the point of no return? Is… Read the rest

According to Greenpeace, Trader Joe’s currently sells fish that are on the threatened species list. Therefore, the environmental activist group began a petition that urges the stores to commit to more sustainable seafood purchasing and selling policies.
From Greenpeace: “We’ve been pressuring Trader Joe’s to adopt sustainable seafood purchasing policies … Read the rest