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Five Hard-to-Kill Houseplants for Your Home or Workspace
Plants can transform your home or workspace into a more peaceful, tranquil, and beautiful place, but if you're not good with them, your improved space can quickly turn into a depressing chamber of death. The solution: Get some more resilient plants....

Three Plants that Give You Better Indoor Air
How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air. Kamal Meattle used three just three indoor plant species to increase oxygen, filter air, and boost general health at a a New Delhi business park. You too can use them to freshen your indoor space. Meattle's...

Ants Eat Well, Thanks to Bacteria -- Torrice 2009 (1119): 2 -- ScienceNOW
Now, it turns out that another microbe is needed to ensure that the ant has a balanced diet.

The Jellyfish Menace
A silent, blobbing menace swarming the seas , thanks to overfishing, climate change and even "dead zones." Jellyfish seem set to regain their dominance of the oceans in future.   After all, the six foot jellyfish known as Nomura have...

Dark Ecology
It should be noted before too much virtual ink is spilled that in closing a recent post on Žižek and Eco-Critique I may have appeared to have given Timothy Morton’s Ecology Without Nature (2007) short shrift, not least for seeming to include as an...

Vacuuming the Reef - Video Library - The New York Times
In the Hawaiian Islands, researchers have developed the "Supersucker," a machine for removing a type of reef-damaging algae, which poses a problem for reefs worldwide.

The Community for Greening the Home - Green Home Improvement
Where eco-consious homeowners and green-certified contractors meet, share and green our world.

Now off to @vuorikari's PhD defense on "Tags and self-organisation: A metadata ecology for learning resources in a multilingual context"