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6 Startling Animated Short Films About How Humans Trash the Environment


Whether you’re a treehugger or a lazy environmentalist (or anything in between), check out these six very cool (yet very troubling) animated short videos about coal and other fossil fuels, bottled water, electronics, and other environmental issues and challenges. Here are three of our particular favorites: … More »

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6 Startling Animated Short Films About How Humans Trash the Environment

Irritating Infographic: Why Your Morning Commute Sucks


Ever wonder what causes the inevitable rush hour traffic jam? Surprisingly, it’s not the mass amount of cars or crummy roads. Scientists have discovered the reason for congestion is sprawl. Check out this infographic to see how sprawl affects the commute in metropolitan areas across the country. … More »

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Irritating Infographic: Why Your Morning Commute Sucks

Composting Without a Yard? Eco-Friendly Living for Lazy Urbanites (Part 1)


I’ve always seen composting as the final frontier in environmentally sensitive living. Having enough outdoor space for a compost bin and a garden that could benefit from the nutrient-rich soil it yields would be great, but it’s an impossibility for someone like me who lives in a tiny urban apartment with no yard. Riding my bicycle, taking short showers, and hauling my groceries in reusable tote bags would have to do for now; composting would have to wait until I was living it up in a sprawling country estate.

So you can imagine what an ass I felt like when I discovered that several of my friends have been composting in their pint-size apartments for years. How had I missed the fact that I could compost easily and on the cheap, while lacking green space? … More »

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Composting Without a Yard? Eco-Friendly Living for Lazy Urbanites (Part 1)

Green Turkey Gallery: 10 Ways to Make Thanksgiving More Eco-Friendly


Thanksgiving, traditionally a holiday for being grateful for intangible blessings, is actually a day of mass consumption on every level. We eat a lot; we drink a lot; and the next day, we shop a lot. These behaviors easily can have a negative effect on the planet, thanks to the waste, carbon emissions, and energy use our traditions yield. This makes us feel guilty. (We also sleep a lot over Thanksgiving; this does not make us feel guilty.) So this year, we’re going to turn down the gobble-gobble and make our Thanksgiving as eco-friendly as possible. In that holiday spirit, we’ve got ten easy ways you can reduce your carbon emissions and waste this turkey day. … More »

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Green Turkey Gallery: 10 Ways to Make Thanksgiving More Eco-Friendly

Eco-Friendly Fail: 8 Ways We Emit Carbon Every Day


You buy local. You avoid using plastic. You ride your bike. You’re basically doing your best to reduce your carbon footprint. But Fast Company found eight surprising ways we emit carbon every day, without even realizing it. Check out this list and see if you’re guilty:

1. Eating. Including food production, transportation, and toilet paper use, humans emit two tons of CO2 a year just form eating.

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Eco-Friendly Fail: 8 Ways We Emit Carbon Every Day

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Uber-Upcycling: In London, former shipping containers, bottles, and pieces of cork are reborn as classrooms, offices, and youth centers that are 80% recycled and 100% cool-looking. (via GOOD)
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The Secret Life of Beef Video: Your Happy Meal Makes the Environment Sad


At Blisstree, we like to think that we know just how tough livestock production is on the environment (we yak about the topic a lot), but this 6:45 video by environmental nonprofit INFORM reaffirms several shocking facts on the subject that are well worth repeating and sharing. Namely, livestock production creates a massively negative effect on the environment (extensive water usage, destruction of trees for pasture, responsible for 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions around the world, etc.). Also, cows are not supposed to eat corn or grain. These make them sick, which is why many of them are shot up with so many antibiotics. (Did you know that 70% of the antibiotics used in the U.S. are for livestock, not humans?) … More »

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The Secret Life of Beef Video: Your Happy Meal Makes the Environment Sad

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16 Countries at Highest Risk for Climate Change-Related Catastrophes (and least prepared to deal with them): Is your nation on this list? If so, you may want to consider a move. (via GOOD)
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New Power Saving Product Reduces Standby Power Consumption


We all know that reducing standby electricity is a sure way to reduce your energy consumption, saving you money & helping to reduce your household’s impact on the environment. The patent pending adaptor senses when you device switches to standby mode, and cuts all power to it, effectively removing standby wastage. It in turn uses [...]

Do Power Saving Plug-In Adaptors Work?


I was always skeptical about this devices.. Noticed them on eBay – and stumble upon the occasional website selling them with big claims of huge % losses.. Anyway – looks like they aren’t all that they are cracked up to be.. This retailer came clean after they found that their products didn’t work. Check out [...]