New Frontiers: Sustainable Design Innovation Initiative Launches in the UK
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For those doubtful about how we can get out of the various sustainability crises we now find ourselves in, financial, social and environmental, I have two words for you: <a href="http://www.treehugger.com…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Support Local Business: Help Build One
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We have all seen “buy local” campaigns, but what about taking it to the next level: Investing locally?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Thinking About Art at COP16
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For better or worse, COP15 is over. It’s just in time, Good is saying, to start thinking about COP16….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Green Eyed Monster Clears Out 2009 Designs With 50% Off
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Call us crazy, but it seems we can’t have enough reusable totes. A few for the car, two for the purse, a couple hanging by the door…it seems we always use them no matter how many we have. If you’re like us, you might want to take advantage of today’s TreeHugger Deal$ from Green Eyed Monster, a company that offers a unique and socially responsible alternative to di…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Fish Get Hot and Bothered Over Climate Change
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Outside of Finding Nemo we don’t usually talk about the personalities of fish. Researchers, however, have noticed different personality traits in individual fish of the same species. In the case of coral reef fish, individuals tend to be either consistently timid or consistently bold.
Just how timid or bold these individuals are, however, is changing, in some cases radically, as the temperature of the oceans rises….Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Grantham Prize Celebrates its Fifth Year
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For the fifth year, the Grantham Prize will honor the year’s best environmental journalism with a $75,000 award. Founded in 2005 by Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham, the Prize is now administered by the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Solar in the Wrong Place – Rocking the FM Stereo Headset
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There are some places solar just shouldn’t go. For instance, on things that you really shouldn’t leave in the sun, like netbooks. Or on things you really shouldn’t wear, like badly designed clothing. Or these <a href=”http://track.webgains.com/ctr.html?wgcampaignid=54264&wgprogramid=1710&wglinkid=0&w…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Truth Behind the Hacked Climate Email Controversy
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When news broke that a leading climate research unit had been infiltrated by hackers last Friday, it (of course) lit up the blogosphere. Thousands of emails exchanged between a few of the top climate scientists in the world were posted online, and eagerly sifted through by those eager to find errors in judgment or evidence of great conspiracies behind global w…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Stop Means Stop: Slate on Cycling
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Slate’s Christopher Beam asks why cyclists tend to break the law and ignore stop signs. He talks to Andy Thornley of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, who happens to agree with me:
“If there weren’t cars, we wouldn’t need stop signs,” says Andy Thornley of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. “They’re not there for bicycles….”You didn’t need stop signs until cars were in common use,” says Thornley. “You just looked in the eyes of the other guy and it sorted itself out…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Should You Trust an iPhone App That Says to Skip Buying Organic?
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Soleil Organics has put out a new iPhone app that tells you when you should dole out the extra dollars for organic foods, and when to skip it and go for the cheaper stuff. When it comes to buying organic, even if you can see a reason skip it, should you?…Read the full story on TreeHugger