Daily Archives: November 20, 2008

Looking into a jar of acai preserves is an enlightening experience. The thick, puree-like substance that you see within, that deep purple color that look — and tastes — so very appetizing, has come straight from the Amazon basin. It is about this point in time, after you’ve enjoyed a sneaky spoonful or two, that [

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Today, the Green Car Journal gave its 2009 Green Car of the Year award to the Volkswagen Jetta TDI at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The 2009 Jetta TDI is a quiet-running, diesel-powered car. It beat out hybrids and mini-cars to take the title. The Jetta uses a technology called “clean diesel” which actually lives up its name pretty well. It has a very clean tailpipe, and an EPA estimated 41 mpg highway fuel economy.

As the ghost of GM’s assassinated electric car haunts a fearful Detroit, another boogeyman is waiting in the wings: the world’s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid electric car, being readied for its December release — in China.

BYD, a company that first made its reputation as the world’s largest maker of cell phone batteries, has announced it will release the F3DM hybrid sedan on December 15. And BYD says it plans to release a version of the car in the US and Europe in 2010 or 2011, just when GM plans to begin selling its own plug-i

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Are they going to have to make a Madagascar 3 movie where a lion, zebra, giraffe and hippo work to rescue some crazy lepilemurs (and pygmy tarsiers) not from foosas, but from human destruction?

South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics has signed a 99-year lease entitling them to half of all Madagascar’s arable land. And, they will pay nothing to farm corn and palm oil there.

The goal is to boost Seo

Image source: California Paints

Now that the temperatures are chilling down, its time to do indoor, rather than outdoor, home repair. Why not give those walls a touch up of paint? Or, for new homeowners, done with apartment living and its bare, white walls, its time to finally get to PAINT YOUR OWN WALLS! Yay! Why not try Elements No-VOC paint now available by California Paints.

photo: Julian

Last month British newspaper The Guardian started a greenwashing column to turn the spotlight on the dubious claims of environmental benefits that some companies put forth. In the latest of these columns, Fred Pearce takes on BP, showing how that company hasn’t really gotten ‘beyond petroleum’ at all.

Check it out, as similar claims can be made about pretty much every fossil fuel company: Despite any efforts they’ve made in

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Etsy.com is a hotbed for creative reuse of junk. Even the quickest of peeks in the shop reveals artists making waste into treasure. Fortunately, artists are also repurposing computer parts that would otherwise be e-waste.

One such artist is Audrey Rogers (aka Mox) who is designing jewelry for a much bigger purpose that simply salvaging junk.

Cargill ethanol facility in Iowa, photo: Steven Roermerman

Regular TreeHugger readers will know that most of the posts about corn ethanol on this site are not exactly favorable, neutral at best. Compared to other feedstocks for ethanol, biodiesel, or some of the ‘green crude’ being developed, corn simply isn’t the best choice—not that other feedstocks also don’t have their problems, not by a long shot (palm oil plantations being the oft-us

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Trips into the outdoors often remind us just how rich life can be when we are reduced to necessities, instead of the superfluous. An Xbox game can’t compete with a stunning sunset; the tang of saltwater spray, when you’re under sail, is sweeter than any bottled sugar water. If you’re a devoted outdoors-lover, the best gift you can give is your enthusiasm and passion; of course, it’s hard to put a bow on that. If, on the other hand, you’re buying for that special weekend warrior, we’ve done the hard part for you: collecting a lineup of presents in a variety of price ranges to save you some of