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Walking: An Equal-Opportunity Answer to Traffic Congestion, From New York to New Delhi
Crossing the street in Delhi can be a tricky proposition. Photo by [Satbir] via Flickr. With just 139 cars for every 1,000 residents -- compared to 209 in New York City, and a whopping 765 in the United States as a whole -- many parts of Istanbul are already clogged with traffic. More residents n …
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Pesticide-Soaked 'Wallpaper' Cuts Malaria Exposure, Safer Than Spraying
Mosquito on the wall. Image credit:DesertUSA. To lower mosquito exposure in malaria-prone places there are two basic pesticide use strategies. The half-century old approach - a remnant of 1950's era thinking - is to spray entire towns, as well as the surrounding countryside, with a pesticide s …
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The Climate Clock and Copenhagen
Bonfire Image credit:Wikipedia For those concerned about global warming, all eyes are on December's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The stakes could not be higher. Almost every new report shows that the climate is changing even faster than the most dire projections of the Intergove …
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Community Planning for Peak Oil: This Doesn't Look So Dark (video)
Image credit: Transition Whidbey I posted on Friday about Worldchanging's critic of the Dark Side of Transition Towns, in which Alex Steffen argued that the Transition Town movement is effectively burying its head in the sand—promoting ineffectual, perhaps folksy [I paraphrase], individual …
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Green Living: Leading by Example or Passive Aggressive Preaching?
Image credit: South Park/Comedy Central As I noted in my post on The Art of the Eco-argument, we're often better off leading our own lives than telling others how to lead theirs. In fact, if eco-snobbery is left unchecked, it could lead to a major backlash against the environmental movement. But, …
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Vegetarian's Rebuttal to 'The Carnivore's Dilemma'
Eat Me. You might possibly, perhaps be doing something good for the environment. Credit: Ethicurean Last week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled "The Carnivore's Dilemma"--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as way to significantly reduc …
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Space Tourism Lifts Off: 2012 Space Resort Launch
Photo via Exclusive Lifestyle. Artist's rendering of the Galactic Suite Space Resort. You think you'd find the Galactic Suite Space Resort in a cartoon, comic strip or kitschy hotel in Disney World, right? Wrong. Whether you like it or not, it's real, and plans to open its super-future-like doors …
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'Fashion Delivers' $1.2 Million to Victims of Natural Disasters
Barney's Simon Doonan and Sesame Workshop's Gary Knell at Fashion Delivers/ K.I.D.S. gala in NYC. Credit: Thomas Iannaccone, Via WWD Fashion Delivers, a non-profit organization that supplies victims of natural disasters with donated product, and Kids In Distressed Situations, Inc. (K.I.D.S.) rais …
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Wash your clothes by pedaling your bike (with video)
Credit: Dave Askins, homelessdave.com. You don't need electricity to do the laundry. It's as easy as riding a bike. My wife's 90-year-old aunt still washes her laundry by hand, and dries it with a wringer. God bless her. But if you're a little busier, you can keep your clothes clean with …
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Voices from Hopenhagen: Copenhagen With an "H," by Tham Khai Meng of Ogilvy & Mather
Images courtesy of Hopenhagen/Ogilvy & Mather. This guest post was written by Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, as part of the Voices from Hopenhagen series. In explaining the genesis of the name "The Beatles," John Lennon famously wrote, "A Man appeared on …
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C.K. Prahalad, Kraft Going Green(ish) and The COP15 Lead Up in Barcelona
A weekly wrap up of green and socially minded business news from the gang at TriplePundit.com. Warrior Film-making: The Story of Free Range Studios - Startup Friday features the makers of The Meatrix today and the trials and tribulations of launching a media enterprise with...Read the full story …
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A Garden Blooms Inside a Concrete Cloverleaf
In the loop: a botanical garden inside a highway interchange (inset). Photos via Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanical Garden (inset) and the Istanbul Governor's Office. A botanical garden inside an "urban void" -- the loop of a busy highway's cloverleaf interchange -- has been recognized by Deutsche Bank a …
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The Modern Green Movement Explained in Diagrams (VIDEO)
There's so much going on in the modern green movement that it can be hard to grasp where the whole thing is heading, and how bloggers in Australia, activists in Africa, scientists in the US, and so on, are all stitched together. This segment from Current TV offers a nice, straightforward attempt to …
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Buy Some Time with Your Favorite Celebrity, Eat Like Elizabeth Hurley, and More
Photo via Celebrity Gossip Plenty of celebrities are willing to donate their money to green causes, but this week, you can catch up with others who've agreed to donate their time by offering up lunches, set visits, and front-row tickets in auctions for two different celebrity causes. ...Read the …
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PETA Teams Up With Glenn Beck
Okay, so you're probably just as tired of seeing Glenn Beck's mug grace TreeHugger as I am--but this is more newsworthy on PETA's end than the never-ending stream of And it's newsworthy because PETA's president voluntarily showed up on Beck's show to join him, uniting for a common cause: making fun …
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Ice Loss in Antarctic Peninsula Unprecedented in 14,000 Years
Scientists reconstructed the ancient climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands. Photo: Barry Thomas via flickr. In case you wanted another piece of evidence that current melting in Antarctica is really a product of global warming, researchers of the UK's National Oceanography Centre, S …
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Good News! Water Use in the U.S. Less in 2005 Than 1975
Despite 30% Population Growth We always hear about how we're using more of this and more of that, so it is welcome new to learn that apparently the people of the U.S. were using less water in 2005 than in 1975 despite a significant increase in population. Daily water consumption in the U.S. is 410 …
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REDD Forest Protection Scheme Still Missing Key Safeguards as Barcelona Climate Talks Close
photo: Felix Francis via flickr. As the last official negotiations before the COP15 climate talks came to a close in Barcelona, progress on REDD forest protection scheme negotiations hit a new low. That's the word from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance, which says several key safeguards, as well as …
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Second Skin: A Pop-Up Room By Rene Siebum
Alex at Shedworking is expanding into interior design, with this bookcase that opens up to "create an environment which helps us to concentrate and focus," although it won't do much for noise. Alex calls it "shedworkingesque." Designer Rene Siebum won third in the public voting at the Design Acad …
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Future Food, a Show About Changing the Way We Think About Food, Coming to Planet Green
What do you get when you combine downloadable design (and the internet) and food, and splash in some molecular gastronomy? Just ask Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche: Two renowned chefs, successful restaurateurs, patent-owning mad scientists and celebrated futurists who are bringing their unique, fun, wack …
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