02/27/2002
Project Runway Winner to Design Solar Clothing Collection for ...
Project Runway's Seth Aaron Henderson's winning fall 2010 collection. Images courtesy of Lifetime. While we're still enjoying the hip summer accessories of this summer season, the upcoming spring/summer 2011 collections, set to hit ...
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08/28/2001
NASA Creates World's First Global Forest Map Using Lasers : TreeHugger
Image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon Scientists, using three NASA satellites, have created a first-of-its-kind map that details the height of the world's forests. digg_url ...
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03/29/2001
Forget Dixie Cups! Drink Out of Jell-O Glasses! : TreeHugger
Image via The Way We See The World We write a lot about alternatives to paper and plastic cups, or designs that reduce their waste, but this has to be a new favorite. Designers at The Way We See.
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08/28/2001
Google Energy Signs 20-Year, 114 MW Wind Power Contract : TreeHugger
Photo: Google Blog, logo added by Michael GR Part of Google's Goal of Being Carbon-Neutral Google Energy, a subsidiary of Google that was created to give the company the ability to buy power on the wholesale market, has just.
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01/29/2002
1/2 of All China's Water is Too Polluted to Drink : TreeHugger
Actual water samples collected from China's rivers and lakes. And 1/4 is entirely unusable Even given our general knowledge of China's longstanding problems with pollution, this news is staggering: A full one half of China's water has ...
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02/26/2002
EcoModo - The Best of Treehugger
This week on TreeHugger, Porsche is going electrics, the Autobahn shuts down for a 3 million-person party, how home workers are heading to garden sheds, a giant swimming pool for riverside Manhattan, and more!
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02/27/2002
High Levels Of BPA Found In Cash Register Receipts, What You Can ...
Image Source: red5standingby Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC, has discovered that many cash register receipts contain levels of Bisphenol-A (BPA) hundreds of times higher than ...
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02/26/2002
Ăśber-Short Bike Path Gets Cyclists from Here to Here : TreeHugger
One cyclist enjoys a ride on what may be the world's shortest bike path. Oh, wait, that was it? Photo via Globo Well-designed urban bike paths are a cyclist's dream, making it easy for folks to ditch their cars.
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01/30/2002
Plastiki Completes 8000 Nautical Mile Journey Protesting Plastic ...
Images via Designboom After traveling 130 days and 8000 miles, the Plastiki sailed in to Sydney earlier today, ending the trek to bring attention to the problem of plastics in our ocean. Headed up by David de Rothschild, the.
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04/28/2001
Earth's Upper Atmosphere Suffers Record Breaking Collapse : TreeHugger
Image via Space.com The Earth's upper atmosphere has had a record breaking collapse, one that has scientists both puzzled and worried, NASA announced Thursday. The collapse occurred during a period of low solar activity known as a ...
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12/30/2001
Wisconsin School Cuts Crime By Changing the Menu : TreeHugger
photo: J. Novak Whether we like it or not the food that we eat doesn't just affect our waistlines, it affects the way that we feel. If you're mindful of the way you feel after munching on a Hershey.
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01/30/2002
FAIL! 5 Ways Google's "Bike There" Is Not All There Yet : TreeHugger
Photo credit A. Streeter. If Google's GMail is any indication, Google Maps Bike There may be in beta for a long, long time. And that's likely a good thing. Many of us encouraged creation of the bicycle mapping tool,
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01/30/2002
New US Shower Regulations Limit Multiple Heads, Will Ruin Sexy ...
Since 1992, federal regulations have required that shower heads deliver no more than 2.5 gallons per minute. But that never stopped companies like Grohe from putting a half dozen of them together to fire at models in their advertising.
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01/30/2002
Re-Bubble Concept Puts Your Old Soaps in Public Restrooms : TreeHugger
Images via Yanko Design 'Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without' -- This is an old saying that is great for living sustainably, and designs that help us live this mantra usually catch our.
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02/25/2002
Cute Sustainable Design for Kids at Malba Museum in Buenos Aires ...
Photos: Paula Alvarado. Every year when the school winter break comes, the Malba Museum in Buenos Aires puts out a design collection and a set of activities aimed at the little ones. This year, the collection was curated by.
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01/28/2002
300 Miles in an Electric Wheelchair: Norwegian Couple Protests ...
Image credit: ElectricAid Talk about electric vehicles and most people think of the Tesla Roadster, or maybe the more humble, but equally ground breaking Nissan Leaf. But there are probably hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles ...
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01/29/2002
Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Eco Reality Shows (Video) : TreeHugger
Watch the full size video on Planet Green Elizabeth Hurley has shocked the fashion world and traded banter with an international man of mystery but nothing, whether on the cat walk or the big screen, compares to her experience.
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11/29/2001
Zephyr Solar Plane Lands After Over 2 Weeks (!!!) in the Air ...
Photo: Qinetiq Thanks to Solar Power A week ago we wrote about the Zephyr 'Eternal Aircraft', an unmanned solar plane that had just broken many records by staying up in the air for 7 days. Well, the Zephyr has.
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12/28/2001
Can Sustainability Grow in a Deforested Rainforest? : TreeHugger
Thousands of years ago, a tribe of indians settled near modern day Santarem, nestled on the banks of where the Tapajós River joins Amazon in the state Pará, Brazil, living harmoniously in the region's lush rainforest.
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01/30/2002
Moscow Engulfed in Peat Smoke As City's Record-Breaking Heat Sets ...
photo: AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel If you're sweating through a heatwave right now, take comfort knowing that you don't have massive peat-fires sending smoke across your town too, like in Moscow: The Russian capital experienced a record ...
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12/30/2001
Construction Begins on Amman BRT : TreeHugger
A rendering of the future system. Image credit: Amman BRT. Having already begun to reclaim its sidewalks for pedestrians, the city of Amman, Jordan is setting out to reclaim its streets from traffic chaos. The Jordan Times reported ...
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09/28/2001
Massive New Wind Project Moves The Ball In California : TreeHugger
photo via flickr Although it may be in some trouble, California's aggressive goal of attaining 33 percent of its energy from clean renewable energy by 2020 is still on track--for now at least. In fact, wind energy in the.
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12/29/2001
Safer Cosmetics on the Regulatory Horizon : TreeHugger
Image: Zooboing, via Flickr Industry associations state their desire to 'ensure that existing FDA regulatory oversight is enhanced.' Advocate groups for safer cosmetics have started a full push to get the public support for cosmetic ...
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04/29/2002
The Gear Junkie Scoop: The North Face Tree Hugger 32 | The Outside ...
With its new Tree Hugger 32, an eco-minded backpack design, The North Face touts "good karma" as an attribute alongside pack capacity and compression straps.
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01/30/2002
Looking for an Affordable Mercedes? Try the Hybrid : TreeHugger
All images courtesy of Bloomberg Business Week OK, affordable might be a bit of an overstatement, unless you're one of the richer tree huggers out there. We've told you before about Mercedes-Benz's hybrid S400, but here's the ...
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01/29/2002
BP Gulf Oil Spill's Impact on Tourism Estimated at 3 Years, Nearly ...
Credit: VisitFlorida.com By now you've probably seen the ads: Come to Florida/Another Gulf Coast state, our beaches are still beautiful (despite the worst oil spill in US history). It's a sign that the states are losing visitors, ...
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07/30/2001
BP Photoshopped Fake Crisis Command Center for Website (Pics ...
Oh man, this keeps getting better and better -- can't BP do something without lying or deceiving the public about it? How about something as simple as posting actual photos of its command center in Houston on the company.
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01/28/2002
New Online Magazine Merges Green Fashion, Artful Photography, and ...
Image courtesy of the Wild. New online art, culture, and fashion magazine The Wild has released its inaugural issue, and we're fans already. The quarterly publication is jam packed with quality content, perfectly paired with enticing ...
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01/30/2002
Quote of the Day: Thomas Friedman On The Horrific Cost Of Air ...
Image: Huffington Post The New York Times Columnist on the cost of air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: Making our country more energy efficient is not some green feel-good thing. Retired Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson, who was Gen.
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01/30/2002
Citibank Cancels Shark Fin Promotion in Hong Kong : TreeHugger
Image: leeyuiwah It's more good news for sharks and further testimony of the power of social media campaigns: thanks to intense outcry from environmental groups and consumers, Citibank's Hong Kong division withdrew a special promotion ...
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11/29/2001
New York Compost (Pick-up on a Bike!) Program Needs Your Help ...
We caught word of New York Compost, a pilot project to start a 'table-to-farm' compost pick-up service in NYC that would take organic matter from restaurants to farmers. Here's their Kickstarter fundraising campaign page - they need to ...
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12/28/2001
Reid: Forget About Renewable Energy Standard Too : TreeHugger
photo via flickr As the dust settles and activists are left to wonder what's next for climate and energy reform after Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the plug this week on a climate bill that will put a.
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06/28/2001
Meet the New 4-Part Climate Bill : TreeHugger
Photo via a Green Living It looks like Senate Democrats are indeed going to make one last push for energy reform before the November election circus takes the main stage. The legislation, which hasn't been entirely hammered out yet,
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01/28/2002
New Contestants for the Fourth Plinth Use Recycled Materials ...
Image from art:21 The Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square is the premier showcase for artists. Every year a new public art work is exhibited on the empty pedestal and it is always sure to cause a stir. The most.
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09/27/2001
World's First Flight Powered by 100% Algae Biofuels Completed ...
photo: Diamond Aircraft A new and notable world's first in the realm of aviation biofuels: EADS, maker of the Airbus and lots of defense and transport aircraft, has announced the completion of the first flight powered entirely by ...
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11/28/2000
US Company Set to Ship Billions of Gallons of Water from Alaska to ...
Photo via Alaskan Dude digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/07/us-company-set-to-ship-billions-of-gallons-of-water-from-alaska-to-india.php'; India is hurting for water. With rapidly growing populations of people and a ...
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08/30/2001
Don't Forget Home Star: The Green Bill Everyone Can Agree On ...
Image via Energy Star In the arena of green politics, the spotlight has been hogged by the troubled energy reform efforts in the Senate. Many are watching as the best chance to reign in carbon emissions and stimulate clean.
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02/25/2002
Are Mini "Teacup Cattle" the Answer to Sustainable Meat? : TreeHugger
Image credit: The Guardian The connection between beef and climate change is already well documented. And while some may tout grass-fed cattle as a partial solution to cattle-related greenhouse gas emissions, there's no doubt that the ...
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01/29/2002
Floating Pool Concept Could Clean NYC Waters "Like a Giant ...
Images: + Pool A giant floating pool just off the riverside of Manhattan - for swimming and also filters and cleans the water? Why not? That's what a group of designers and architects are proposing in + Pool, a multi-purpose.
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02/26/2002
Floating Plastic Dining Room is Taking Orders : TreeHugger
Image from School of Fish Foundation If you are anywhere near Vancouver, BC and you have a strong stomach, come on down to the Plastic Dining Room. You will need good sea legs because the 'restaurant' is a raft.
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02/27/2002
Will the Queen's Guard Ditch Bearskin and Don Stella McCartney's ...
Stella McCartney's faux fur Queen's guard's cap. Credit: Paul Grover/ Telegraph There's controversy in Queen's country: Currently, one bear is killed for every bearskin cap that the Queen's Guard's wear and Peta UK along with famed ...
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06/28/2001
Stimulus Bill Created Nearly 1 Million Green Jobs: CEA Report ...
Photo via A Green Living It's kind of amazing to me the bad rap that the stimulus bill has gotten since its passage a year and a half ago -- a recent poll found that something like only 13%
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07/30/2001
The Crusade Against Female Cyclists (Mildly NSFW) : TreeHugger
Photo: Flickr, CC Female cyclists have a hard enough time - we are generally a bit more safety-conscious and reticent when it comes to getting out on city streets, and the athletic among us who do fearlessly dive into.
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10/29/2001
Toyota Suggests Putting a Glass of Water on Your Dash (Well, Not ...
Image: Toyota For a 10% Fuel Consumption Reduction... No, Toyota isn't trying to con you into buying a 'water powered car'. They are simply trying to illustrate a simple point about fuel-efficient driving that, sadly, too few people ...
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01/30/2002
Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Insecticide : TreeHugger
photo: USDA This past Thursday, the NRDC and Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) filed suit against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to try to force the agency to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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01/28/2002
The Week in Pictures: Earth's Thermosphere Suffers Collapse, BP's ...
This past week was an unfortunate one for the animal kingdom: 500 penguins mysteriously washed up on beaches in Sao Paolo, Brazil and poachers brutally killed the last female White Rhino in South Africa's Krugersdorp nature reserve.
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11/29/2001
Join the Campaign to Recycle 1 Million Pounds of Batteries By ...
photo: Call2Recycle The majority of the public is aware of the necessity of recycling or better, reducing the waste that you generate in the first place. And now Call2Recycle is campaigning to remind the American pubic about recycling ...
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12/29/2001
Hungry Bear Takes Joyride, Totals Car Looking for Sandwich ...
Image: Signs in Yosemite Warn About Bears Seeking Food in Cars, via Flickr It was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that led to the demise of Ben Story's car. A hungry bear managed to get into the car.
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06/28/2001
Poachers Kill Last Female White Rhino in South African Reserve ...
White rhino and calf, photo: Wikipedia One more symbol of the rising global demand for rhino horn and its devastating effect on rhinoceroses in both Africa and Asia: The Guardian reports that the female white rhino in South Africa's.
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10/29/2001
Swinging "Cow Wash" Means Happy, Healthy Cows and More Milk (Video ...
Photo via Daily Mail, credit SWNS Everyone loves to get their back scratched. And for cows hard at work in dairy farms, a little rub against the 'cow wash' goes a long way for getting cleaner both cleaner and.
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10/29/2001
Marion Cotillard's Green Dreams, "Avatar" Returns to Theaters, and ...
Photo via SciFiCool.com Interview magazine brought former co-stars Nicole Kidman and Marion Cotillard together to talk about Cotillard's work with Greenpeace, her environmental choices, and her new film, Inception (which also starts ...
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04/29/2002
NYC's Favorite Fashion Bloggers (Including a TreeHugger) Style One ...
Bright Young Things Style Challenger Tiffany of Six SIx Sick. Photo: Ayasha Guerin When Bright Young Things (BYT), the sustainable fashion label that launched with one little black dress last month, asked if I would don their LBD for a ...
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01/29/2002
Resisting Desire to Control Nature Key to China's and the United ...
15th century painting, 'Poet on a Mountain Top' by Shen Zhou via The Nameless Blog In an interesting interview over at China Dialogue, reporter for The Guardian and author of the new book When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan.
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01/30/2002
Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming in 5 Minutes - As ...
The best easily digestible-but-accurate synopsis I've read on climate change in quite a while wasn't written by a climate scientist, or a green writer for that matter. Nope, it was written by a top hedge fund manager. True story.
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10/28/2001
2% US Energy Consumption is Lost Through Food Waste : TreeHugger
Photo via sporkist We know Americans are guilty of wasting an inexcusable amount of food every year. In fact, estimates say we waste as much as 40% of our food supply; New York City residents alone waste 270000 pounds.
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01/30/2001
Chevy Volt Battery to Have 8 Years/100000 Miles Warranty : TreeHugger
Photo: General Motors Other Automakers Will Have to At Least Match It GM seems pretty confident that the Chevy Volt's battery pack, which is based on LG Chem cells but is packaged by GM, will last a long time.
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10/30/2001
Barenaked Ladies Say Get Outside, Get $1000 : TreeHugger
Credit: Courtesy Reverb.org Let me get this straight. You want me to leave my house, go outside and run around like a bunch of Barenaked Ladies? And you'll give me $1000 toward a cool camping trip if you like the.
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04/28/2002
Ashton Stark: VW Beetle Turned Into Electric Car By 14-Year-Old
treehugger.com: It will be another two years before Ashton Stark can get his driver's license, but that's not stopping the 14-year-old from looking to the future -- and in more ways than one. With a keen sense of green and a little ...
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11/29/2001
Shabd Simon-Alexander: Seasonless and Artful Eco-Fashion (Photos ...
Shabd Simon-Alexander spring 2010. We first spotted the artful designs of Shabd Simon-Alexander on eco-fashion site Beklina. It was love at first sight. Shabd approaches fashion design as if it where art; She draws from a minimalist ...
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03/28/2001
Cycle Commuters Offered Fluffy Towels and Ironing Boards At Bike ...
Storage for 150 bicycles at Bike Park. Photo: Bike Park Whenever we do a story on bike commuting there'll always be a commenter concerned about what happens when they arrive at their workplace. How do they scrub up from.
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01/30/2002
Good Ocean News! Blue Whales On a Feeding Spree Off California ...
Images of krill and blule whale via wikipedia Amid all the bad news about marine ecosystems needing life support around the world, there is a tiny spot of happy news today on the ocean beat. Actually, a big spot,
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01/29/2002
Use Natural Gas & Carbon Tax, Forget Carbon Capture, To Help ...
The carbon intensity of coal is so high that CCS technology will only slightly reduce emissions, the report authors say. Photo: Joost J Bakker via flickr. Another take on the how to transition from coal-based electricity and its huge.
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10/29/2001
Solar Powered, Driverless Cars To Drive 8000 Miles from Rome to ...
Image Credit: VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge If you're planning on driving from Rome to Shanghai this summer, you might encounter two small, orange cars along the route. Covered with seven cameras and four laser scanners ...
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01/29/2002
General Motors Chills On Climate Damaging Refrigerant : TreeHugger
photo via flickr General Motors Co. is making headlines for bringing forward the electric Volt later this year, but GM is also making green news by virtually eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from the air conditioning used in certain ...
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01/29/2002
Road Through Serengeti National Park Will Kill Annual Wildebeest ...
photo: Mandy via flickr Plans by the Tanzanian government to run a road through the northern part of the Serengeti National Park have been drawing criticism from a whole host of conservationists. Even though the part of the proposed.
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09/29/2001
Air-Pots, How to Grow Healthy Trees for Replanting in Urban Areas ...
Image Credit: Superoots We like trees in our cities and urban zones; they enhance the air quality, provide shade and are also nice to look at. However, to get those trees into the cities is not an easy task.
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09/29/2001
Albuquerque Hotel Cuts Water Use Nearly 80% : TreeHugger
Photo credit Hotel Andaluz. A lot of press releases pass through the in and out boxes at TreeHugger, and sometimes one worthy environmental action just isn't enough for an individual company or organization to get attention.
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09/27/2001
Global Coral Reef Health Depends on Tougher US Laws, Experts Say ...
Photo via JPott Conservationists have been calling for stronger laws to protect marine habitats, but it has proven difficult to get them on the books in the first place, let alone enforced. Now, experts are saying that the United.
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10/30/2001
Beautiful Bent Wood Basket for Chic Cargo-Carrying Cyclists ...
Images via Yanko Design As bike culture comes into its own, many people switching to two-wheeled transportation want to ride with style. From 'Cycle Chic' fashion shows in stylish Santa Barbara during National Bike to Work Month, ...
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11/28/2001
Massive Algae Bloom Spreading Across Baltic Sea : TreeHugger
A labeled satellite image taken July 11 by the European Space Agency. Image via BBC. The 30 bottles of pre-French Revolution champagne recently recovered from the bottom of the Baltic Sea were a pretty awesome find. But the latest.
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09/27/2001
DIY Wedding Extreme: Couple Grows Everything for their Wedding ...
Image credit: Tim Greenway/The Portland Press Herald Once upon a time I put together a guide on how to green your wedding, and I even blogged about my own DIY-flavored eco-wedding. But my darling wife and I have been.
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01/30/2002
Top 12 Green Accessories For Cool Summer Style (Slideshow ...
Katherine Hamnett's capsule beachwear collection for Yoox. Image credit: Karel Losenicky for Yoox With global temps at an all-time high, we're in the middle of one hot summer. To help you beat the heat, we've gathered the hippest green.
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10/30/2001
Imported Cattle Threaten African Livestock Diversity & Continent's ...
photo: Joris-Jan van den Boom via flickr Even though locally-adapted, diversified agriculture and farming is a key component of both food security today and in a warmer more climate-stressed future, the Big Ag trend is still towards ...
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09/28/2001
Raising the Bar For Recycling: Architect Designs Cool Stools From ...
Trolling the bar scene at Melbourne's Raising the Bar, we find the Offcut Stools by Edwards Moore Architects. They are part of an exhibition of works made from 'hard rubbish finds, found objects or the reuse of existing materials'
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09/29/2001
RAN Goes After Blankenship As He Surfaces At Nation Press Club ...
photo via RAN Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship resurfaced today at the National Press Club to tout the virtues of coal, a substance James Hansen refers to as the 'single-most climate-wrecking fuel there is.' RAN activists met him there ...
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09/29/2001
Mystery: 500 Dead Penguins Wash Up on Brazilian Beaches : TreeHugger
Photo: Flickr, CC On the Average Year, Only About 10 Dead Penguins are Found in that Area Over just the past 10 days, around 500 dead penguins have washed up on beaches in the Sao Paolo state of Brazil.
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04/29/2002
Oceanwire: Ocean acidification changing polar waters fastest ...
Oceanwire: Ocean acidification changing polar waters fastest / Treehugger / physorg: http://bit.ly/bPJIDo. Oceanwire: Ocean acidification changing polar waters fastest / Treehugger / physorg: http://bit.ly/bPJIDo ...
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07/30/2001
German Autobahn Closed for Gigantic Party - 1 Million Cyclists ...
Image credit: Huffington Post From Manhattan's Summer Streets to Bogota's Ciclovia, TreeHugger is a big fan of reclaiming asphalt in favor of human interaction. But I'm not sure we've ever seen anything on this scale. A town in Germany.
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07/29/2001
TreeHugger Reports From the Heart of the Amazon : TreeHugger
Perhaps the most striking thing about flying over the Amazon rainforest is how untouched it looks; there's no checkered quilt of farmland or veins of highway. From horizon to horizon it's nothing but an impossibly vast sea of green,
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08/29/2001
Toxic Spill at Chinese Copper Mine Kills Nearly 1900 Tons of Fish ...
Photo via PhysOrg A top mining company in China, the Zijin Mining Group, allowed a toxic waste water to spill into the Ting river, polluting the major water way, killing nearly 1900 tons of fish, and threatening the fishing.
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04/29/2002
Rand Paul: MTR “Land Is Of Enhanced Value”
... repeatedly demonstratedhis propensity to say outlandish--and to many--offensive, things. Well, Paul gave an interivew to Details magazine before he was ordered to stand down that is just coming o...Read the full story on TreeHugger.
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10/30/2001
The 7 Things That Killed the Climate Bill : TreeHugger
Image via Inhabitat The news that reverberated around the web yesterday was hardly unexpected -- the climate bill, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally announced was officially dead, was on its way out for a long time. But.
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08/29/2001
How Desalination Works : TreeHugger
Photo via Reiner Schubert As our global water crisis persists, we're hearing more and more about the use of desalination as a viable source of drinking water. Desalination used to be written off as an energy-intensive way to separate.
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04/28/2002
Nissan LEAF to have 8-Year/100000 Miles Battery Warranty | GREENDUMP
Nissan Leaf battery. Photo: Nissan Matching the Chevy Volt As predicted here, Nissan has decided to match GM and offer a 8-year/100k miles warranty on the battery pack of its LEAF electric car. It will be great for early adopters who ...
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10/28/2001
Architects Build Thai Townhouse Façade Out Of Banana Plants ...
TreeHugger has often discussed the use of screens or shutters to keep the sun out while providing ventilation and privacy. Thai architects Pailin Paijitsattaya and Kanin Amboon of Architectkidd found a more local, traditional way of ...
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04/29/2002
Dispatch From the Gulf Oil Spill: Breaking the Law to Save the ...
Jamie Hinton, Chief of the Magnolia Springs Volunteer Fire Dept, considers the barges. Image courtesy of Philippe Cousteau. With the well capped and BP's promise of a static kill in the coming days, a sense of optimism, while tempered, ...
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10/29/2001
Planet 100: China Oil Spill (Video) : TreeHugger
Watch the full size video on Planet Green On this episode of Planet 100 - A pipeline explosion sends tons of crude oil spilling in to the sea at the port city of Dalian in China. More about the.
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10/29/2001
Strongest Beer in the World. Served in a Dead Squirrel. US$750 ...
Image credit: BrewDog Utilizing road kill is a tricky subject. We've seen recycled squirrel decanters before, and even had discussions on whether eating roadkill is vegan or veganish. The result was always heated debate.
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04/29/2002
Sandra Bullock Gets Duped by Big Oil's Restore the Gulf Campaign ...
Photo: Youtube Something's Not Right With This Campaign Not long ago, many celebrities got together to make a PSA for the Be The One campaign, urging people to sign a petition to save the Gulf of Mexico on the website RestoreTheGulf.com ...
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04/28/2002
Signal Shed: A Tiny, Affordable, Off-Grid Getaway In The Woods ...
Ryan Lingard Design Ryan Lingard designed and built this lovely litte cabin near Joseph, Oregon in a couple of weeks for under $10000. Preston at Jetson Green tells us that it has a wood stove, metal roof, cedar rainscreen, ...
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04/28/2002
India One Step Closer to Reintroducing Wild Cheetahs | GREENDUMP
The Asiatic cheetah once ruled that plains in India and the Middle East, but now its population is estimated to be 100 individuals or less. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Pursued by trophy hunters and herdsman, the Asiatic cheetah was ...
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04/28/2001
Beyond the Gulf Oil Spill: Five Ongoing Ecological Disasters With ...
A burning oil spill in the Niger Delta. Photo via City of Refuge Africa Living some 6000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction.
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10/29/2001
Play Ping Pong Across London : TreeHugger
Image from Ping! What a way to meet someone new, get a bit of exercise, or just a laugh. It's ping pong, that easy going (or not) sport that anyone can play. Now, and for the next month, one.
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04/29/2002
Why the BP Spill Hasn't Invigorated Environmentalism | GREENDUMP
Photo via Boston In 1969, an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California released a few million gallons of oil into marine ecosystems -- eight months later, it was among the primary catalysts for the biggest pro-environmental ...
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01/28/2002
BP CEO Tony Hayward to Resign, Get $17 Million in Severance ...
Image via Newsopi This news should surprise exactly no one: BP CEO Tony Hayward, who let fly gaffe after gaffe during his company's oil spill response, is set to resign. But it turns out devastating the Gulf's habitats and.
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04/29/2002
Dispatch From the Gulf Oil Spill: Breaking the Law to Save the Gulf
But there is something else simmering amongst the people and communities here, a desire to do something, to take control and positively impact this tragedy. In the case of Jamie Hinton, Chief of the Magn...Read the full story on TreeHugger.
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09/29/2001
Amazon's e-Book Sales Outpace Hardcovers; Tipping Point for ...
Photo by Horia Varlan According to Amazon, e-books are outpacing hardcover books by around 50%, with about 143 e-books sold for every 100 hardcovers on average over the past three months, and 180 e-books sold for every 100 hardcovers.
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07/30/2001
Is Nissan Planning a LEAF-Based Electric Sports Car? : TreeHugger
Photo: Wikipedia, public domain. Meeting Tesla in the Middle Nissan and Tesla have very different strategies when it comes to electric cars. Tesla has decided to start upmarket because they figured that since electric cars were going to ...
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01/28/2001
Almost Invisible Mirrored Tree House Built In Sweden : TreeHugger
They said it couldn't be done. When we first wrote about the almost invisible treehouse to be built in Sweden by Tham & Videgard, 899 commenters thought it was autocad eye candy, impossible to build and death for birds.
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06/29/2001
The 'Eternal Aircraft' Zephyr Solar Plane Aims for 14 Days in the ...
Photo: Qinetiq Update: Zephyr Solar Plane Lands After Over 2 Weeks (!!!) in the Air Breaking All Kinds of Records A couple weeks ago we wrote about the Solar Impulse, a solar airplane that flew for over 24 hours.
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