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Get Your Green Groove On With Some Sustainable Love

Get Your Green Groove On With Some Sustainable Love

When it’s cold outside and the funds are low, snuggle up to your lover and let the winter games begin! Save your gas money and invest in a little stash of eco-friendly romance accessories for winter’s most sustainable sport: sex.

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Concept Car Combines Human and Electric Power for an Innovative Hybrid

Concept Car Combines Human and Electric Power for an Innovative Hybrid

There’s no shortage of hybrid concept cars these days, but the GYM car has answers for two pressing issues - environmental and personal health. A design student, Da Feng, has come up with a novel idea- a human-electric hybrid concept car that can be charged by the energy generated by the driver using the built-in exercise [...]

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Elephant Poo is Perfect for Peace Project

Elephant Poo is Perfect for Peace Project

Can poo bring peace between man and beast? Mr Ellie Pooh thinks so. The Sri Lankan elephant, an endangered species, produces up to 500 pounds of dung a day, and this very aspect of the animal may be its saving grace. The population of Asian elephants worldwide is estimated to be only about 40,000, and the [...]

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Easy Holiday Recipe: A Moist Banana Bread in 20 Minutes

Easy Holiday Recipe: A Moist Banana Bread in 20 Minutes

The holidays have a way of making us eat way more sweets than normal - every gathering or party has trays of high-sugar treats pulling us towards them. And if you eat a vegan or gluten-free diet, most of those goodies are off limits to you. Because we and our kids eat a special diet, [...]

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Put Some Wood Between Your Legs with an Eco-Friendly Bicycle

Put Some Wood Between Your Legs with an Eco-Friendly Bicycle

For an eco-friendly bicycle gift, order a wood-frame bicycle for your favorite cyclist from Renovo: an environmentally friendly, hand-made, and truly unique green innovation.

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