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A Lively Pair of Flip Flops

Walking through a plot of fresh grass in your bare feet feels glorious, right? But what if you could saw a patch of grass into your flip flops? Would you do it? I don’t think I would be game for such footwear, but apparently the creators over at Krispy Kreme – yes, the guys [...]

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Planning an Environmental A-fair

Having been away at college, as an environment lover, I was spoiled by my campus, where I could find several groups of people who shared my ideals and concerns. Though I was slightly out of the loop, when I returned to my Midwestern hometown, I found the city to be completely regressive in comparison, years [...]

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The Cost of Congestion

Perusing my local paper, The Chicago Tribune, I was drawn to the headline “Traffic Cost: $1,580 per driver”. Although this statistic didn’t make me spit out my morning coffee, as I mainly bike to and fro about the city, it caught my attention. So I filled my mug and read on to see how the [...]

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Women as Greenfluencers Part 5: Garden Girl TV

Patti Moreno, AKA Garden Girl, is a woman greenfluencer at her best. As someone who loves to use my barely green thumb to grow my own veggies, I itch to learn more about being a better gardener in my small urban setting, and to know how to use the foods and herbs I grow, from [...]

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Anything Freiamt, Germany, Can Do, I Can Do Better

When national leaders discuss the implementation of renewable energy sources to power the entire country, we’re always hit with the problem of scale. It would take wind turbines overrunning the whole of Nevada, chopping up a Thanksgiving worth of birds each day. Or it would take a garden of solar panels covering the entire southwest, [...]

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That’s Downright Trashy Fashion!

While some people shop the likes of Coach and Pottery Barn, other green thinkers are taking advantage of fashion and housewares of another sort – “trashion.” Hailing from creative eco-designers in Inodnesia, trashion is the name given to a new trend where jewelry, clothing and home decorations are made from reused materials to create an item [...]

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