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Help Wanted: Extreme Green Consultant to Help TreeHugger Founder Renovate 420-square-foot Apartment …
Dear Readers, Buildings comprise 40% or more of our emissions in the U.S., so I'm trying to create a personal living situation for myself that might be a model for how more of us could live in the future (at least in cities like New York). I'm gunning to design a tiny, ultra-green-yet-sleek (a …
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Hermit Crab Finds Use for Ocean Trash, Calls Broken Bottle Home
Image via Recyclart We aren't sure if this is in the wild, or someone's pet crab to whom the owner gave an offering of a broken bottle as shelter. Either way, it's kinda cute and kinda frightening. It doesn't take much of a leap of though to figure this might be increasingly what our ocean critte …
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New Study: Climate Bill Would Boost Economy by $111 Billion, Create 1.9 Million Jobs
Photo via USA Looks like I spoke too soon about the words 'new report' always being a sign of bad news these days--because this new study reveals some pretty encouraging information. It's an analysis of clean energy reform by researchers at Yale, Berkley, and the University of Illinois which reve …
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Cleantech Open 09 - LivinGreen Materials Makes Solar 50% More Efficient, 40% Cheaper
LivinGreen Materials showed off their drop-in solution to creating more efficient, cheaper solar cells. And their claim is no small number. They say their solution - which would remove one layer from the solar cells currently manufactured and replace it with a layer created by their new technology - …
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Microsoft Bans Nearly a Million Xbox Users, Now Crippled Consoles Are Flooding the Market
Photo via Collin Allen After discovering nearly a million users had modified their consoles to play pirated games via the Xbox live service, Microsoft gave them the boot from the service and now the modified consoles are making their way onto the market by the hundreds, with more likely to foll …
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Indonesia Scores One For Press Repression & Environmental Destruction - Reporters, Activists Deport …
The sort of destruction trying to be prevented... photo: Greenpeace. Seems the government of Indonesia didn't much like Greenpeace activists trying to disrupt the continued destruction of rainforest as its converted into palm oil plantations. Nor did they appreciate foreign journalists documen... …
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Are Short Flights Polluting Your Neighborhood?
Image credit: √oхέƒx™/Flickr A major air hub, with constant take-offs and landings and dozens of vehicles and large buildings is an obvious source of pollution. These huge airports may be strains of the atmosphere as a whole, but their immediate impact on our local airspace, thanks to mandated bu …
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Top Stories from Tonic: Say No To Tuna, Yes to Coke and Proceed With Caution Toward Robert Pattinson
Calling all pescatarians! Annie Scott reports on the problem with tuna in "Conversation With Sylvia Earle: You'll Never Eat Tuna Again." "Achtung! Porsches Are Mean and Green." get the lowdown on the hot, hot, hot eRUF. Coke is leading the way to better bottling. That's right: "Coca-Cola Intro …
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Climate Change-Induced Drought Causing Crop Failure, Livestock Problems in Indian Himalayas
Less precipitation falling, and when it comes it falls in a shorter period of time... photo: Harry via flickr. Compared to the focus on Arctic and Antarctic ice melting, glacial retreat and climate change in the Himalaya doesn't quite get the same coverage. Which, as a new survey by Indian NGO Re …
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Regan's Beautiful (and Big) Reverb Solar Powered Speakers
It was only last month we saw a super sexy solar iPhone charger from Regen roll out. Now that same company has put out a beautiful solar powered speaker, the Reverb, that can play between 20 and 40 hours on a full charge. And this is no wimpy counter-top speaker, either. ...Read the full story on Tr …
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Don't Get Discouraged, Pluck Low Hanging Fruit
Image Credit: GOOD GOOD writes: "It's been a bummer of a week for climate news." Indeed, with a bill stagnating in the Senate and some bad news regarding Copenhagen, it would be easy to get discouraged....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ode to Los Angeles Bike Culture from 30 Seconds to Mars (Video)
American rock band '30 Seconds to Mars,' sing lyrics like: We were the kings and queens of promise / We were the victims of ourselves / These lessons that we learned here / Have only just begun. And they have chosen the vibrant bike culture of Los Angeles as the visual connection to their words. …
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Confirmed: Oceans Absorbing Less CO2 - First Year-by-Year Study Goes Back to 1765
photo: Shayne Kaye via flickr. The first year-by-year study of the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the world's oceans since the industrial revolution confirms a disturbing trend: Oceans are struggling to keep up with all the carbon humans are spewing into the atmosphere, with the proportion …
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New To Nau? Discount for Neophyte Eco-Clothing Customers
Photo: Nau ' In any economic climate, it's natural to consider the price of the products we buy, and whether their value justifies their cost. We often receive comments regarding the prices for Nau products. One customer recently commented that, "The clothing is great and unique but the pricing i …
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Are Greens Anti-Progress? Eco-modernity vs Green Traditionalism
Image credit: FusedFilm.com Along with the idea that environmentalism is a religion, another irritating notion seems to keep cropping up recently—that environmentalism, or some environmental solutions, are just about taking us back to the past. When I wrote about homemade bone meal fertiliz …
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Debunking The Climate Change Fable
Little Boy Who Cried Wolf. Image credit:Straightedge Marketing. Generations of English-speaking parents have recited fables to teach their children about life. I suppose there are equivalent fables in other languages. Ones I remember the most are "The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf" (apropos for tod …
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What Happens to Cold Blooded Animals in a Warming World (Slideshow)
The European Green Lizard, Lacerta viridis, shows off a blue head while catching some rays. Lizards and other so-called "cold-blooded" animals have complex biochemistry: sometimes they have 4 to 10 different enzyme systems where humans would use only 1. Cold-blooded critters need this complexity so …
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Fake Snow in China, Kurt Vonnegut's Brother, Falling Cement and Other Weather-Mod Tales
Flickr/kudumomo Our story on China's earliest snowfall in decades got picked up by Green Patriot Radio, which interviewed me on the ins and outs of the country's extensive rainmaking program. Among the trivia I share: - Rainmaking technology was first developed in the US under Dr. Bernard V …
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Spring/Summer 2010: Lulu Frost Vintage Jewelry (Photos)
Credit: Lulu Frost Lulu Frost jewelery designer Lisa Salzer draws inspiration from Bond Girls Honey Ryder, Strawberry Fields, and Mary Goodnight in her feminine yet edgy designs for spring summer 2010. Vintage resin stones are handcrafted into geometric protective shapes on brass and silver deco …
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News From Mother Jones: 450 ppm Ain't Gonna Cut It
For evidence that grassroots activism works, look no further than writer and climate activist Bill McKibben, who has spent the past year tirelessly knocking on doors with his climate crew over at 350.org. But as McKibben writes this week, door-knocking only goes so far: To make real progress on clim …
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