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Photo via Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing When it comes to supporting environmental causes, even the small donations can mean big changes–the non-profit Foundation Center reports that less than $100 million was earmarked for climate change...
Credit: Jeff Kung , CC Global luxury brand LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc.) and Parsons The New School for Design have teamed up to present “The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited” during New York Fashion Week . Student design teams will...
George Mason University is home to over 40 conservative think tanks, many of which think climate change is a hoax; fortunately the School of Art is a different place, where they care about their carbon footprint. They have converted an old shipping container...
Big ol’ Chevy Tahoe. Image credit: AutoWeek. The Star-Telegram is reporting that ” The health effects of air pollution are a major topic in Texas because the state is one of the most polluted in the country. A recent survey by Cook Children’s...
photo:J Novak Over the past few years, a commonly muddled bureaucracy and the resulting lack of trust in government has further tainted our nation’s food supply system . Now that mistrust is spilling over into school cafeterias. According to an...
School Lunch Trays. Via back garage Samsung is growing its greener side, and at the same time helping San Francisco Bay Area schools. The company is expanding a free electronics recycling program to ten K-12 schools in the San Francisco Unified School...
Harvard green buildings conserve enough water to fill five of these pools each year. Harvard just earned itself one more (green) distinction this week with its 20th LEED certification , more than any other university in the world (and more than the rest...
(Images: Dezeen ) Warehouses, schoolhouses, and factory buildings repurpose well into lofts and art studios, but draftiness and patchy temperatures often come with the terrain. Berlin architecture firm Davidson Refaildis devised this concept, Selective...
Photo: Wikipedia , CC Useful Little Blood Suckers It goes to show that you never know where science is going to make its next discovery. Brazilian researchers were studying the repulsive (to me anyway — maybe some of you think they’re cuddly)...
