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Indian eco school keeps children cool in the hot weather & Rarest sea turtle on the planet hatches in Louisiana for the first time in 75 years

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Choices matter. Indian eco school keeps children cool in the hot weather

In the middle of the Thar desert, Indian students must deal with sweltering 45 degree temperatures to attend school.

But the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School needs no air conditioning as the unique sustainable design of the building keeps it cool. In Jaisalmer, northwest India, just over a third of women and girls can read and write. Staff at the Rajkumari school - which hosts more than 400 students aged between four and sixteen - hope to improve this alarming statistic.

Thanks to the school’s unique oval build they can study in peace despite sweltering temperatures and regular sandstorms. The designer is the New York based architect Diana Kellogg.

"As a female architect designing for women, I looked at feminine symbols across cultures and specifically symbols of strength,"?Kellogg stated.?"I ultimately landed on this oval shape that is representative of femininity and resonated with me as the formulation of infinity."

The school is made of entirely locally hand-carved Jaisalmer sandstone by local craftsmen. This was very important for Kellogg: to include the community in a building made for the community. Using local materials to create the infrastructure, helped reduce carbon emissions. Kellogg also built a solar panel canopy on the roof to act as a cooling system where temperatures peak close to 40 degrees Celcius. Both the ceiling and jalis keep the heat out and the elliptical shape of the structure also helps bring aspects of sustainability creating a cooling panel of airflow.?

If you want to learn more about this fantastic sustainable eco girls school, click?here!

The rarest sea turtle on the planet hatches in Louisiana USA for the first time in 75 years

The recent hot summers caused by climate change have been tough on our turtles. Once the sands in which the eggs incubate become too hot, the population could turn entirely female, which risks the turtles extinction. But fear not... we carry good news as always!?After being deemed as unviable for turtle life around 75 years ago, the Chandeleur Islands, which is off the coast of New Orleans, Louisiana, have seen the world’s most endangered turtles hatch again!

When. a local restoration agency was surveying birds in the area, some crew members spotted what appeared to be turtle tracks. This discovery sparked an interest amongst the researchers, and they began weekly visits to the islands to investigate further.

They were happy to see more tracks when the nesting season began.?“There was some high-fiving going on,” says Matthew Weigel from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Weigel and Todd Baker of the Louisiana Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority followed the tracks, finding two newborn Kemp Ridley turtles.

The Kemp Ridley is the smallest sea turtle on the planet, measuring about 60-to-70 cm when fully grown.

This discovery marks the first time Kemp Ridleys have hatched on the Chandeleur beaches in over 75 years.?“Louisiana was largely written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles decades ago, but this determination demonstrates why barrier island restoration is so important,”?notes Chip Kline, chairman of the Louisiana Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority. Hatching season takes place during June and July, and monitoring of the waters is ongoing for more sea turtles hatching.

If you want to learn more about these amazing turtles and how they are being protected, click?here!

This company creates clothes out of 100% recycled textile inputs

Buying clothes should never be complicated. We should never have to worry about where the material comes from, how the person making the clothing gets treated and the waste the clothing creates. Everywhere Apparel has a solution to this fashion industry problem: they create clothes out of 100% post-industrial textile waste.

Everything about the product from the labeling to the fibers to the finished packaging is 100% recycled. The biggest material used in their process is recycled cotton. The companies COO Deonna Andersson states that?"There's a huge amount of cotton waste on the planet that comes from a variety of different channels: post-industrial, which would be like cut waste coming off of factories; pre-consumer, which would be like deadstock, unsold materials that are sitting in retail stores or just never made it to an end consumer; and then obviously there's post-consumer waste which we have a ton of. A lot of those fibers are cotton."?Everywhere apparel takes the deadstock and creates a whole new life for the product so as to battle the huge clothing waste that plagues the world.??

Although they are still a small brand, they are growing and planning to increase their production in the future to keep up with demand.

We believe more companies should take this zero-waste approach to clothing making as well! If you want to learn more about this click?here!