This week charity: water drilled another well in Ethiopia… this one with funds raised from an event called Twestival (Twitter plus festival). In just 2 months, the 100% volunteer effort raised funds from all over the world and has completed the first well for a northern Ethiopian village.

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Green School aims to connect learning and creativity in an inquiry based approach to education. The campus is built of sustainable materials (Indonesian bamboo, traditional mud walls, local alang-alang grass) and is cooled/powered by sustainable energy solutions (micro-hydro power, solar power, bio-diesel, and natural air-conditioning).
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Maybe your printer’s toner cartridges are recyclable. Fortunately ours are. But regardless of that, we use a lot of unfriendly ink, and it costs a lot too! Always at the forefront of green efforts, the Dutch, and more specifically, a company called Spranq, created an eco-friendly font called Ecofont. Because there are holes pervading each [...]

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