New Year’s Resolutions With a Green Twist

If you’re like most people, your New Year’s resolutions usually have something to do with self-image, family, health, or wealth. Starting now, I’ll take pride in my own body, I’ll exercise more regularly, eat wisely, spend more time with my…

neoli5 de enero de 2015

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Looking Back: 2014’s Most Important Stories: Green Building to Health, Food to Climate Change

You gotta admit, 2014 was a heady, bustling, and very crucial year for science and technology. Here's a look back on the important and noteworthy stories that defined 2014, from green building to health, food to climate change. And oh,…

neoli30 de diciembre de 2014

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7 Steps to Beating Holiday Stress

In an ideal world, we would all be celebrating the holiday season—whether that’s Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, or even Winter Solstice—with joyful ease and happy simplicity. But despite modern conveniences and luxuries, holiday stress have become a default scenario in our…

neoli21 de diciembre de 2014

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What Happens Now After the Climate Change Conference

And so it’s a wrap. The UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, dubbed as COP 20 (Conference of the Parties, the twentieth session so far) had finally ended last Sunday, spilling over for some 36 hours behind schedule. The…

neoli17 de diciembre de 2014

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How to Give the Best Holiday Gifts and Still Keep Your Sanity

Maybe you don’t really need anyone to tell you, but the holiday season is actually the most stressful time of the year. All that racking our brains, deciding the perfect gift for friends and family, jostling our way amidst crowds…

neoli11 de diciembre de 2014

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Seven Ways to Green Fashion

New clothes, new jeans, new bags, new shoes—they’re inevitable this holiday season because, after all, we’re all in a festive, buying mood. In this age of selfies, it’s especially natural to want to always look our darn best. But in…

neoli6 de diciembre de 2014

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LEED 2009 Extension and Other Stories | November Roundup

The Link Between Global Warming and Crop Nutrients Global warming might produce less-nutritious crops. That’s the conclusion of a six-year study released earlier this year. Studies report crops and their nutrients don't fare well amidst global warming. According to Samuel Myers of Harvard…

neoli29 de noviembre de 2014

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Rethinking the Food Crisis and Solutions

If you look past the awesome CGI special effects and mind-boggling time dilation shenanigans of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, you’d remember that the basic premise of the film is that the Earth is dying and no longer able to produce food…

neoli24 de noviembre de 2014

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To LEED or Not to LEED | The Case for Anti-LEED

Last month, architect Steve Mouzon made the case for Anti-LEED in a post at ArchDaily. To LEED or Not to LEED At first glance, Anti-LEED sounds like an outright bashing. There’s that prefix anti after all. And we all know LEED is…

neoli20 de noviembre de 2014

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How Our Dependence on Palm Oil is Killing Our Rainforest, the Orangutans, the Tigers, and the Planet

Next time you’re in the supermarket, check out the list of ingredients of every product on the shelf. Whether it be bread, pasta, toothpaste, chewing gum, soap, shampoo, detergent, cosmetics, chocolate, ice cream, biscuits, peanut butter, instant noodles, and many,…

neoli14 de noviembre de 2014

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