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Created by former Sustainability students, this site offers information on, and ways to reduce the impact of e-waste.

The gifts have long since been opened, the turkey leftovers are gone and the eggnog is all drunk up. For those who purchased real Christmas firs or pines, the tree may be looking a bit droopy or thin. How to dispose of it? Luckily, creative and eco-friendly recycling options abound around the country.

The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises off the coast of Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat. The majority of the world is not aware this is happening.This page tells of how we can each help in the campaign to raise awareness and stop the slaughter.

Since we love to single out Apple.

Which has the lower carbon footprint - our life in the New Jersey suburbs or our life in a cabin in the woods of Maine? We recently hit the halfway mark for our year in the woods, so I now have enough data to answer the question.

Put your computer charger/computer, monitor, hard drives, scanner, printer, etc. on this power strip and easily turn in on or off with the wall mountable remote.

Loyola University of Chicago has developed a really cool process to help cut down on eutrophication and the use of water. It involves the use of fish, which supply nutrients to plants in the form of their waste. The plants clean the water for the fish while getting nutrients at the same time.

This website shows the process of fracking.

Great start to opening up the city to urban farming.

LONDON - Eni, the Italian oil giant, is giving up on producing natural gas from shale rock in Poland, not long ago considered the most promising country in Europe for the new fuel source.

An old coal power plant in Salem, Mass. is scheduled to be replaced by a newer, smaller, 'greener' natural gas plant. Environmental advocates say that if we install this plant we will not meet our mandate for reducing carbon emissions, as set forth in the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 (the one that Dr. Cash worked on!!!). However, energy and power experts say that if this plant does not get built on schedule, Massachusetts will be in danger of blackouts and power shortages in 2016.

You guys may remember this guy, Enrique Peñalosa. He was the former mayor of Bogata, Colombia and was featured in the documentary we watched, "Urbanized" earlier this year. I thought this was an interesting topic on population and urbanization that also ties in very nicely with our energy unit!

This was great.

The UK, which has a separate settlement plan from the UN's high Commissioner for Refugees, will act in offering "the most needy people", from Syrian refugee camps a home in Britain.

An example of a major transition when people decide to make a difference.

Innovative and more sustainable vending machine.

especially poignant today, on the anniversary of Sandy Hook