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Title: Earth911 - More Ideas, Less Waste

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Picture two houses in the aftermath of a California wildfire. What’s left of one is a scorched foundation on a blackened lot. The fire spread quickly, partly due to a bed of flammable bark mulch under the windows and tall, dry ornamental grasses touching the siding. The other home is an island in a sea of gray ash. It remained intact, thanks to its protective landscape of low...


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This week’s quote is from Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the U.S., philanthropist, and environmental advocate: “Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

Earth911 inspirations. Post them, share your desire to help peop...


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Run an insect trap through a German nature reserve today and it will catch a fraction of the insects it would have trapped in 1989. Entomologists in the Krefeld region did exactly that, season after season, and when they totaled 27 years of catch they found flying insect biomass had fallen more than 75 percent


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It always strikes us as amusing how many DIY projects you see online that seem to require more time and more money than it would take to simply buy the thing they’re trying to DIY in the first place. Are we missing the point?

We think that doing things ourselves and taking back the power to create instead of simply consuming is absolutely vital to the green movement. B...


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Every photo, email and forgotten download stored in the cloud lives somewhere physical. Most of the time, it’s in a data center that runs around the clock, drawing power and emitting greenhouse gases. Digital clutter feels weightless, but it carries a real environmental cost that most people never think about. The good news is that cleaning it up is one of the easiest green a...


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