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A great resource for keeping up with what's happening with your planet.

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9 Air-Cleaning Houseplants That Are Almost Impossible to Kill

If you love greenery and clean air, but lack a green thumb, this list of awesome yet unkillable houseplants is for you!

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New storage rack for fruit ripening!

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Where did you buy this from?!

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Make A Bee Waterer And Help Hydrate Our Pollinators

Imagine how hard just one bee works in a single day. Bees tend to at least 2,000 flowers daily, with tiny wings beating 10,000 times per minute, carrying pollen, and dramatically assisting our food supply.

Sound exhausting? Bees get thirsty, and they need safe water sources. The problem is water is not always available. Bees need very shallow water to drink from. However, shallow water evaporates quickly. Birdbaths are not the best option as bees tend to drown if the water is not be shallow enough. As for river and lakes, bees risk their lives trying to get water in the presence of fishes, frogs, and other wildlife, not to mention the risk of being swept away in water currents.

To help hydrate our little pollinators, set up a water feeder by filling a pie pan with marbles and then water. The marbles give the bees a spot to land so that they don’t drown when they come to drink. No more drowned bees!

Source: Natural Cures 

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While a liquid soap dispenser is very convenient, a good old solid bar of soap is a much ‘greener’ option, as it’s more concentrated and doesn’t require a plastic bottle. But squishy, wet soap bars next to the basin are a pain, and they harbour bacteria too. So, what to do? Young designer Nathalie Stämpfli has come up with a very satisfactory solution with her Soap Flakes soap holder. It takes an ordinary bar of soap, and shaves off tiny soap flakes every time you want to wash your hands.

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Safer Storage for Nuclear Waste Nuclear waste is piling up in our backyard—and it’s not stored as safely as it could be.

FROM  Union of Concerned Scientists

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Great infographic on how we should be storing our nuclear waste. POGO has done a lot of work on this same subject. See this report published by the Institute for Policy Studies with support from POGO that argues for dry cask storage.

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5 Great Plants for the Office - Earth911.com

Windowless cubicles and wacky watering schedules can bring most plant varieties to an early demise. Avoid getting stuck with a sad plant cemetery on your desk by choosing one of these air-cleaning, mood-boosting varieties that are also nearly impossible to kill.

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FindaSpring.com is a community and user created database of natural springs around the world.

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Surreal Photos of Singapore’s Solar-Powered Supertrees | via

As CNN reported on the supertrees, “It’s pretty innovative stuff. The structures mimic the ecological functions of real trees through their environmentally sustainable features. Some have photovoltaic cells on their canopies to harvest solar energy to light up at night, others are integrated with cooled conservatories and serve as air exhaust receptacles.”

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8 Powerful Plants That Can Detox The Air In Your Home

Did you realize the average American spends 90 percent of his time indoors? Thats a lot of time. Unbelievably, air pollution inside your home or office can be worse than the pollution outside, which

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Can Eco Fashion Go Mainstream? H&M And Amber Valletta Say Yes

H&M continues to push the boundaries of High Street retailing this week with the announcement of its latest sustainable fashion initiative. The brands Conscious Collection is a range of clothing made from environmentally friendly materials such as organic cotton, hemp, and recycled fabrics. The

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Homemade Natural Cleaning Recipes: A Complete Guide

Making homemade household cleaners is a great way to save money and protect your home from dangerous chemicals. These natural cleaning recipes include a homemade shower cleaner, homemade laundry detergent, homemade bathroom cleaner and many more.

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Where does Vaseline come from? Can petroleum jelly be dangerous or harmful to your body and skin? Safe, green, eco-friendly skin products to use instead.

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Greetings followers! I'm currently compiling long lists for your FFR usage! I hope y'all will enjoy them! :)

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Puzzlewood Magical Forest — The Real Middle Earth

Puzzlewood is a unique and enchanting place, located in the beautiful and historic Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. There is more than a mile of meandering pathways through Puzzlewood and over 14 acres of ancient woodland. It has an atmosphere quite unlike any other wood. The magical forest is one of the most stunning in the world and it’s easy to see why it’s been used as a filming location for Merlin and Dr. Who. It is no wonder that JRR Tolkien is reputed to have taken his inspiration for the fabled forests of Middle Earth from Puzzlewood. 

In Puzzlewood you will find strange rock formations, secret caves and ancient trees. The geological features here are known locally as scowles. The scowles originated through the erosion of natural underground cave systems formed in limestone many millions of years ago. Uplift and erosion caused the cave system to become exposed at the surface. This was then exploited by Iron Age settlers through to Roman times for the extraction of iron ore.

Evidence of Roman occupation of the area is supported by the discovery of a hoard of over 3,000 Roman coins from the 3rd Century which were found in the scowles of Puzzlewood. Once the Romans left, nature reclaimed the old workings with moss and trees, to create the unique landscape. The historical use soon became forgotten, and the folklore of “Puzzlewood” began. In the early 1800s, a local landowner laid down a mile of pathways which meandered through the trees and gulleys to open up this ancient forest originally for the amusement of his friends and children. In the early 1900s, Puzzlewood opened to the public. Since then it is has remained essentially unchanged with the same stunning pathways and bridges as in earlier times, but with the addition of a variety of animals and visitor facilities.

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This reminds me of the castle surroundings

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Oh wow <33