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This year, America should turn out the lights in solidarity with Earth Hour, the climate and reality.

This year of all years, we should stand up and fight the climate change trolls.




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Advisor to EPA says a little air pollution is good for kids

We wrote earlier: "Lick that dirty pacifier!" Now we say "Breathe that dirty air!"




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Designer's awesome secret studio is suspended under bridge

Ephemeral and unexpected, this outdoor workspace is intended as an urban refuge.




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6 International Resorts Dishing Pampered Eco Luxury

Luxury by its very definition means indulgence--while eco-consciousness, such as that employed by Scandic in its moderately-priced hotel chain, is more likely to mean slashing consumption.




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Isoude: Gorgeous Green Fashion That's Built to Last (Slideshow)

A couple of years ago, I made the New Year's resolution that my new clothing purchases would be limited to green garments. With the quality and selection of ">green fashion that's become available recently, it's been a promise




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First in South America: Uruguay to Test Cultivation of Industrial Hemp

Great news for TreeHuggers in South America: Uruguay could become the first country in the region to authorize the cultivation of industrial hemp, according to El Pais newspaper. The national Ministry of Cattle,




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Sourcing Sustainable Fabrics Made Easy with New Online Marketplace from Summer Rayne Oakes

When I caught up with Summer Rayne Oakes at a Fashion Delivers event in June, she only briefly mentioned her forthcoming project: Source 4 Style, an online marketing




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Snoop Dogg Publishes 'Smokable' Songbook of His Greatest Hits

Snoop Dogg publishes eco-friendly, promotional book of lyrics to his chart-topping hits that you can smoke.




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TreeHugger's Greatest Hits, 2004-2012 (with a Soundtrack by Bruce Springsteen)

I wrote my first TreeHugger post more than seven years ago. Since then, there's been a lot of water under the bridge. Here are some of the many highlights.




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Framework Tall Wood Tower in Portland sprouting soon

"Forest to frame" is the new "farm to table."




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In the battle for social domination of the roads, Oregon imposes a bike tax

Because cyclists should pay their fair share, right?




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Adidas' new shoes will dissolve in your sink

In an attempt to close the loop on production, Adidas has invented a shoe made from biodegradable artificial spider silk that will melt away when you're done with them.




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Adidas sold 1 million pairs of shoes made from ocean plastic last year

Finally, green shoe design is reaching mainstream levels.




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All-glass solar-powered PurePods are for glamping out in the open

Made out of glass, these rentable cabins in New Zealand's wilderness are meant to reconnect guests with nature.




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TarSandsSOS lets you track tar sands oil tankers

ForestEthics has launched a new tool called TarSandsSOS that lets citizens track supertankers hauling tar sands oil along the Pacific coast in real time.




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Winters Were Colder in Your Parents' Day: New England Trees Get 10 Days More Growing Season Than Pre-1970

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Sustainability Lessons from the Great Depression

A pioneer of peak oil community action sits down to talk with her mother about a previous crisis and how she survived it.




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Rap News video presents our energy crises, global warming denial, Elon Musk on Mars, and our #1 energy solution

This rapper nails it, imho.




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Have we reached Peak Curtains? IKEA's head of sustainability thinks so.

We have lots of stuff, it's just unevenly distributed.




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Sooner than you think? A prediction that electric cars will cause the next oil crisis

It actually won't take that much to reduce oil demand enough to cause serious trouble.




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Flecks of "solar glitter" can make almost anything solar powered

The tiny, flexible solar cells can be integrated into objects of any shape or size.




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This solar panel produces up to 5 liters of drinking water per day from the air

Zero Mass Water's SOURCE device is a rooftop solar device that produces water instead of just electricity.




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Forward Labs solar roof promises higher production, lower cost than Tesla's

The unicorn of cheap clean home energy will most likely be found in an affordable solar roof that doesn't look like a solar roof, and that can pay for itself quickly. This startup may have developed it.




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Solar paint produces hydrogen from sunlight and water vapor

The unique paint could provide clean power to homes at a low cost.




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Solar-activated canopy creates interactive environment that responds to light (Video)

This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.




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IKEA is now selling solar systems, no Allen key required

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.




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Are solar panels vulnerable to hackers?

A new study says yes, but luckily the fix is simple.




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Australia will be home to world's largest single-tower solar thermal power plant

The project will also include molten salt energy storage for 24 hour solar power.




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Solar blocks could replace solar panels on buildings

The blocks could be part of the architecture of a building, generating more power than just rooftop panels.




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Waterproof solar cell could go through the wash and still work

The solar cell can be stretched, bent and compressed without substantially affecting performance.




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This concentrated solar power plant is totally tubular & easily transported

The HELIOtube is a radical departure from conventional CSP technology, as it is based around tubes of inflatable plastic film.




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Tesla tiny house integrates solar with Powerwall, towed by Model X (Video)

Tesla's tiny house integrates solar power and its Powerwall home battery into a seamless system, and can be towed by the Model X.




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Finally, C.F. Møller shows the world how to do building-integrated solar panels

While the world chases solar generating windows, we see how to do solar generating walls.




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Solar 'smart' greenhouses produce both clean electricity & food crops

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.




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Bio-solar wallpaper made with cyanobacteria can be printed with an inkjet

When printed in a precise pattern onto carbon nanotubes on paper, these photosynthetic bacteria can produce electricity from sunlight, which could power biodegradable environmental and medical sensors.




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Solar windows switch between tinted and transparent

The technology makes for better energy generation and a better window.




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Solar freakin' roadway opens in China

Is this totally silly and a waste of time and money, or is it a great leap forward? Or is it too soon to tell?




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Man builds solar-powered, app-controlled micro-home with "zombie mode" (Video)

It also comes with its own beer dispenser, built-in right in the couch.




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The Red Bees of Brooklyn, and a Search for a Solution

Earlier in the week, the New York Times reported that bees in Brooklyn had started turning red, and their honey was looking like bright red goo. It turned out that




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Crowd-Sourcing Solutions to Plastic-Filled Oceans

Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize for her presentation on oceans, and this year got her Mission Blue project up and rolling to create marine preserves. Earle's wish was that we all use all the means at our disposal to tell the story of oceans in




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Shark Extinction Possible Simply From Too Much Soup

In China, it's shark fin soup, in Japan it's blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S. it's our love of nice thick fish fillets and billions of fish sticks consumed annually - these cultural habits are




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Six Selfish Reasons You Don't Want Dead Oceans

TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from




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3 Lessons The Everglades Can Teach Everyone About the Environment

All photos credit Collin Dunn Ed. note: 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with a stop in the Florida Everglades, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety




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The Ballad of Lonesome George, The Galapagos' Most Famous Tortoise

Lonesome George is quite a character. He's a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago, he's the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he's gone, that's it -- his species will




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Get to Know an Awesome Animal: The Galapagos Penguin

When it comes to the Galapagos, most people think: Islands; tropical; Equator; volcanoes; some variation on those general ideas probably pops to mind, unless you've been here. If you have been here, you probably know that a




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Up Close and Personal with Natural Selection in Action: The Tale of Two Islands of the Galapagos

Each of the islands in the Galapagos is incredibly different. From landscape to ecosystem to the endemic species that can only be found in that




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Helicopters Drop Poison on the Galapagos Islands

The Galapagos Islands are the model of biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to surmise the theory of evolution, but scientists have made arrangements to ensure that the latest round of animal deaths




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Giant Tortoise Species May Not Be So Extinct After All

They were thought extinct, but in light of new DNA findings, scientists are echoing a very tortoise-y mantra: 'not so fast'.




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R.I.P. Lonesome George, the Last of His Kind

Lonesome George, the world's last remaining Pinta Island tortoise, has died at age 100 -- marking the final end of a species millennia in the making, and inching that 'loneliest' mantle one notch closer to us.




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Operation Rat Kill: 22 Tons of Poison to Kill 180 Million Rats on Galapagos Islands

Usually, air-dropping over 20 tons of poison from an helicopter on a fragile island ecosystem would be a very bad thing...