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Rachel Heinze has an unusual side hustle, on top of her preferred work as a stay-at-home mom of 2. After an exhausting, problem-filled first year of breastfeeding her oldest Lucas, she got a ring set with a pale-white stone made from a powdered form of her own breast milk and thought…

In May, Airbnb began helping its hosts in Massachusetts afford climate-friendly or energy-efficient home improvements, such as insulation, rooftop solar arrays, or heat pumps. Airbnb is partnering with Abode Energy Management to offer a $2,000 rebate on heat pump installation and $500 for weathering upgrades. The chief aim of Airbnb is…

In Savannah, Georgia, a female-led non-profit works in hard hats and pink high-vis vests in a gradually growing business of reuse and recycling—deconstruction. Deconstruction is what you do if most parts of a building could and should be used again; because they’re made from heritage materials; because they’re built with boards…

A young woman in Canada’s Saskatchewan Province recently garnered 8.7 million views on a TikTok video of her planting 4,545 trees in a single day. The video’s author, Leslie Dart, doesn’t have a career in forestry, and rather recently entered the workforce in aerospace manufacturing, a field in which she recently graduated at Durham College […]

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A young entrepreneur is using 3D printers to create cheap school campuses in rural Madagascar. It takes just $40,000 and 18 hours to build a “Thinking Hut,” as they’re called, and founder of the project Maggie Grout is aiming to get the cost even lower before handing the reins over to…

No one sees a Tesla or a Tesla owner and thinks “budgeter” but as it turns out, the total cost of ownership of the new Model 3 is about the same as the cheapest car in America. This is according to the astute arithmetic of Paul Fosse writing for Clean Technica,…