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USDA Classifies PETA as a Terrorist Threat
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PETA is one of the most controversial activist groups operating today. The group’s contentious media campaigns, …Read the full story on TreeHugger
European Mini Ice Age Took Hold in Months, Not Decades
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While this next piece of research doesn’t directly point to future events, it does go to show that serious climate change can happen much more quickly than we tend to think. The European Science Foundation reports that the mini ice age that struck Europe nearly 13,000 years ago took hold in a matter…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
Top 4 Energy & Environment Untruths in Sarah Palin’s ‘Going Rogue’
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Well, that didn’t take long. Sarah Palin’s hotly anticipated memoir, Going Rogue, is hardly out the gates, and it’s already facing a torrent of criticism from mainstream news sources for including various untruths and flat out lies. It appears that everyone’s favorite vice presidentia…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Artful Reclaimed Furnishings from Urban Woods
Since the leveling of forests is linked to everything from sneakers to burgers to biofuels, it’s refreshing to find a furniture shop souring all of its timber from reclaimed sources. Urban Woods hand makes all its pieces in Los Angeles from wood…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Junk+ion: Recycling, Upcycling, Just Turning Upside Downing
Here is a good mental health break: Have a look at the work of the Israeli designers at Junk+ion.
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A Video About Water That’ll Turn On Your Tear Ducts (Video)
The story of charity: water – The 2009 September Campaign Trailer from charity: water on <a href=”htt…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Habit is the Main Obstacle to a Greener Life, American Psychological Association Says
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Brian recently delved into why the US lags behind the world in understanding climate change, but Reuters points out that the American Psychological Association has identified perhaps the greatest obstacle to greener behavior: Habit. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Climate Change Closes the World’s Highest Ski Run
Chacaltaya glacier in 1996 and today. Photo via Schema Root
The 18,000-year-old glacier in Bolivia that provided the world with its highest ski run has just finished completely drying up, thanks to our old pal climate change. And of course, it’s taken the run with it. Now, thrill-seeking skiers will no longer be able to bomb down the slopes at 17,785 ft–but far worse, the glacier will no longer provide much needed water to the 2 million people that live around Bolivia’s nearby capitol …Read the full story on TreeHugger