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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…
neoli
December 21, 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…
neoli
December 17, 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…
neoli
December 6, 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…
neoli
November 29, 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…
neoli
November 24, 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…
neoli
November 20, 2014
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Addictive Substances and Their Environmental Impact

While we have used addictive substances recreationally for more than 10,000 years, wide scale use of alcohol, coffee, tobacco and drugs has only come about in recent centuries. Commercial production of these substances has made them available to more people,…
Alessandro
November 11, 2014