Layout of trees and human health: Study identifies a significantly lower mortality risk in people who live in neighbourhoods with large, contiguous and well networked areas of tree canopies.

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#TreeCanopies #UrbanHealth #GreenSpaces #MortalityRisk #SustainableLiving

Researchers have successfully developed a new carbon-negative material using seawater, electricity and CO2. The material can store half its weight in trapped CO2 and can be used as a replacement for sand in the production of concrete, or in certain plasters and paints.

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#CarbonNegative #SustainableMaterials #ClimateInnovation #EcoFriendly #GreenConstruction

Scientists create biodegradable detergent using wood and corn components | The plant-based detergent, made by mixing cellulose nanofibers from wood with zein protein from corn, was found to outperform chemical cleaners at higher concentration.

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#BiodegradableDetergent #EcoFriendlyCleaning #PlantBasedProducts #SustainableScience #InnovativeCleaners

If you give White House faith adviser Paula White $1,000 before Easter, she promises that you will receive "seven supernatural blessings.": "God will assign an angel to you ... He'll give you prosperity. He'll take sickness away from you. He will give you long life."

You can work overnight with no break, but you can’t be trans

TIL that wasps are actually just as good pollinators as bees are. A similar quantity of pollen grains stick to and fall off of paper wasps as with bumblebees [source, comments]

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Human urine, a valuable resource as fertilizer for sustainable urban agriculture | Study finds that using treated ‘yellow water’ provides plants with necessary nitrogen and reduces the need for external, nitrogen-based fertilizer.

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#SustainableAgriculture #UrbanFarming #OrganicFertilizer #NitrogenRecycling #WasteToResource

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