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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a giant vacuum cleaner designed to filter out the fine and ultra-fine pollution particles linked to early death? There is, courtesy of a small Dutch tech company called Envinity.
According to a report in the World Economic Forum, the giant vacuum cleaner can suck air pollution right out of the sky.... 
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The RAND Corporation prepared a report for the Energy Department analyzing traditional methods of everyday activities like reading the news or getting around with the intention of reducing energy consumption without completely starting from scratch.
Readers who give up print newspapers and switch to digital devices will gain a benefit many have probably not thought about: they will be slashing the carbon emissions associated with their news habit.
That is the conclusion of a new report from the RAND Corporation that uses news-reading habits as an example to make a larger point. Efforts to reduce energy consumption often focus too narrowly on improving existing practices, the authors found, rather than on rethinking old habits from the ground up....
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Remember all those classic PSA posters showing fish, birds and other wildlife caught in the deadly clutches of bags, bottles and the deadly plastic rings that hold your beer and soda cans together? Research by Greenpeace found that 80 percent of sea turtles and 70 percent of seabirds are still ingesting plastic today.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Edible six-pack beer rings to feed marine life – now that's what you'd call green beer!
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Expect to hear much about global warming in the first months of the Trump administration.