Do you want to win a luxury toilet? How about a super efficient .96 gpf Caroma Luxury Toilet!?!?! Caroma is having a Twitter Contest right now and all you have to do to be entered to win one of 4 toilets is to tweet your favorite water conservation tip to Caroma at @caromausa with the hashtag #oneflush

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Porsche has just unveiled their newest concept car, and this one is electric! This is the first plug-in hybrid car ever, and was released at the Geneva Auto Show. It is being called the 918 Spyder, and this amazing Porsche is not just green, but also has a sleek and stylish design!

Read more at this Interior Design Blog

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By the authors of the Interior Design Blog http://www.Styleture.com

In today’s design world, your average Interior Designer or Homeowner has heard a thing or two about sustainability, whether it be through news coverage of global warming or whether it is through personal research of sustainable products and practices that will also save them money.

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Africa's oldest national park, Virunga, in Congo Africa has been seized by rebels after a clash with Congo's National Army. The park is home to over 200 critically endangered Mountain Gorillas. After intense fighting the rebels took the park and the park headquarters. Nothing like this has ever happened before, despite the history of conflict in the region. The only mountain gorillas in the world live in this region, who's numbers are around 700 worldwide.

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In Victoria, conservationists are worried that the dingo may soon become extinct do to interbreeding with domesticated dogs, as well as declining numbers due to habitat destruction. Dingos are similar to wild dogs, and descended from the Iranian Wolf.

The Department of Sustainability and Environment is going to create a strategy to protect the pure dingo, as they are very important in balancing the ecosystem.

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A previously unknown species has been found in New Jersey of all places! A team of scientists including researchers from McGill University, California Institute of Technology, the Curie Institute in Paris, Princton and others are researching a previously unknown species of crystalline magnetic fossils of a microorganism. The microorganism lived between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs around 55 million years ago.

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With the economy being worse then we've seen in recent future, conservation efforts for endangered animals are paying the price.

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The leading environmental groups in Russia launched a lawsuit on Friday against the gas and oil giant, Exxon, for threatening the world's last Gray Whale population. There are only around 130 of this amazing species left in the world, and the pipeline that will be constructed in their habitat may hurt these numbers even further.

The Russian government has already approved the plans for the pipeline, but this lawsuit will hopefully cause some sort of injunction against the building of this pipeline. 

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Although the environment is not on voters minds as much as the economy these days, to many of us at Greenopolis it is also very important. The current Administration has been far to lax to regulate any environmental issues, and hasn't enacted any legislation that will be an overall help to the environment.

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