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Amish Have Fewer Allergies Due to ‘Farm Effect’

The Amish who live and work with animals on farms in northern Indiana, have some of the lowest rates of allergies and asthma in the westernized world, perhaps because of the so-called “farm effect,” according to an international study.

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9 Non-Toxic Cookware Brands for Healthy Home Cooking

Non-stick pans have plenty of benefits -- including requiring less oil for a healthier finished meal -- but the Teflon that keeps foods from sticking has a controversial past, with experts going back and forth on whether or not it can be harmful to humans when heated.

Most ingenious solar powered lighting systems

The sun has been lighting our houses during the daytime since millions of years. Now, we have technological innovations, which allow the energy of the sun to be tapped and put to various uses.

From Shoe Shining to Skin Smoothing: 7 Uses for Overripe Bananas

Although bananas are cheap and plentiful, don't let all the resources and food miles they require go to waste. Here are seven jobs for aged bananas that are otherwise unemployable.

US Toilet Paper Choices Contributing To Indonesian Rainforest Destruction

WWF’s newly released report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests finds that toilet paper, paper towels and tissues made from APP fiber are rapidly expanding into US supermarkets, restaurants, and hotels under the Paseo and Livi brands.

Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic

Polyurethane seemed like it couldn’t interact with the earth’s normal processes of breaking down and recycling material. That’s just because it hadn’t met the right mushroom yet.

Learning to Live a Self-Sufficient Life:

Robert Schultz and his wife Summer built their their straw/clay home and got off the grid. Now they’re growing their own food and living their dreams!

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Natural air conditioner cools with the power of terracotta and evaporation

Though clay has made an appearance in cool-looking refrigerator designs, Swiss designer Thibault Faverie's Cold Pot is a natural and simple air conditioner that uses clay and the power of evaporation to cool down temperatures in a low-tech energy-efficient fashion.

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