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Finnish passenger ferry retrofits rotary sail to reduce emissions

The Viking Grace was already low emission. Now it's going further.




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Thrift stores are tired of getting people's useless junk

"Don't donate if you wouldn't give it to a mate."




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Musician Ben Sollee on the Ravages of Coal and the Wonders of the Bicycle (Podcast)

Among music festivals, Bonnaroo is the juggernaut, and this year is was bigger than ever with 80,000 people descending on Manchester, Tennessee. One of the innumerable artists to preside over the festival's many stages (which included sitting in with My




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NASA's James Hansen on Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice (Podcast)

One of the most venerated scientists of our time, James Hansen is the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a position he's held for three decades. Long before climate change was a household term, Hansen was one of the first to talk about




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Dr. Michel Gelobter on Nukes, Republicans, Tech, and the Future of Energy (Podcast)

After seven years in government, seven years in non-profits, and seven years in business, Michel Gelobter jokes that he's headed for the clergy next. And why not? He's led Redefining Progress, been a professor at Rutgers, and run environmental quality




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Gigafactory schmigafactory: $1BN "stealth" energy storage start-up moves to NC tobacco plant

Many clean tech wonks have never heard of them, but Alevo plans to be manufacturing grid-scale energy storage on a huge scale within the next few years.




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A major U.S. utility company just pledged to go carbon-free for the first time in American history

Are the tables finally starting to turn?




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Forget bike lanes, we need Protected Mobility Lanes

The number of people using alternative mobility devices is exploding, and they will be demanding safe routes.




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10 Ways to Spice up Your Knickers With Sustainable Lingerie

With Valentine's Day around the corner, now's the time to invest in thongs, sweet babydoll sets, ruffled knickers, and more -- in sustainable materials from organic cotton to soy.




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Sexy & sustainable: 9 lingerie brands for women

This Valentine's Day, treat yourself to high-quality undergarments that are kind to your body and the planet.




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IBS Home Gets LEED Points, But Misses the Green Point

At the annual builders' show, a massive green show home has all the bells and whistles, but none of the logic of sustainable building.




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Dubious Dubai: World's largest air conditioned city to be built, covering 48 million square feet

It's got everything, from hotels to hospitals to theaters to the world's largest mall, and a severe case of cognitive dissonance.




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Utensilmate is a great candidate for the Wrongest Product Award

I can't decide if this is just what I always needed or the worst product ever put on Kickstarter.




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Just what we needed dept: The pre-peeled, plastic-packed orange

I'm thrilled; I have so much trouble with rolling fruit.




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How to Go Green: Wedding Engagement

Photo credit: Michael Blann/Getty We've already talked a lot about how to green your dating life and how to green your wedding, but what about that time in between--your engagement? The average couple these days spends 15 months being engaged, which




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Jewelry and Gems Shine Eco-Brighter with Brilliant Earth

Is your soon-to-be fiancé eco-chic? As you're getting ready to pop the question and thinking forward to your green




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UNEP & TreeHugger Launch Blogging Contest for World Environment Day

Once again, we're proud to partner with the United Nations Environment Programme to help fight food waste and bring attention to World Environment Day.




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Tesco pledges to help consumers waste less food

The British grocery giant hopes to prevent food waste.




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U.S. Food Waste Challenge honors World Environment Day

In keeping with this year's theme, the USDA and EPA are launching a challenge to reduce food waste at each step from farm to fork.




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General Mills and Unilever join the fight against food waste

The USDA and EPA announced the U.S. Food Waste Challenge participants.




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Gisele Bündchen and Don Cheadle have an environmental challenge for you

Celebrity ambassadors call for support for the UN’s World Environment Day.




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30 Biggest Stories of the Year in Animal Conservation and Extinctions

The good, the bad, and the we-can-fix-its of the year all gathered up in one place.




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The Year In Strange Design: 20 of the Oddest, Ugliest and Most Useless

I really didn't know where to start, there is so much terrible stuff around




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17 Favorite Tiny Apartments and Houses from 2012 in TreeHugger

We get small and look at designs from around the world




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The top 10 gadget stories of the year

Hydroponics systems, electricity-free appliances and more caught your attention in 2015.




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Organic Ginger-Orange Cocktail Made with Bourbon and Sake

Using fresh organic ginger and locally grown oranges, the eco-friendly Medlock Ames has created a drink that is complex, fresh and tangy.




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Nigeria on the brink: only one solution – socialist revolution

The recent “release” and immediate brutal re-arrest of Sowore raises the question of the nature of the present regime in Nigeria. The justified anger of many workers and youth poses the problem of “what is to be done?” Here comrade Rashy in Nigeria explains that this event brings into sharp focus the need to radically transform Nigerian society along socialist lines.




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Algeria: mass boycott of the general’s election of shame

Yesterday’s presidential election in Algeria was marked by a massive boycott campaign called for by the Hirak movement, which is now 43 weeks old. The boycott had been preceded by a four-day general strike and was particularly strong in the Kabylie region. Tens of thousands came onto the streets across the country defying a police ban on demonstrations. Whoever the generals decide will be the country’s president, they will not have any real legitimacy.




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The impact on Nigeria of the coronavirus pandemic: socioeconomic pandemonium!

It would be hell if the Covid-19 breaks out in Nigeria on the scale presently being witnessed in Europe and the US. Apart from the dire state of the healthcare system, 69 million Nigerians have no access to clean water. This invariably leads to water-borne diseases like cholera, which continue to break out as regular epidemics. Social distancing and self-isolation presuppose that people have enough space. In Lagos where we have over 100 slum areas, about 80 people can be found sharing a 10-room building with only two toilets and a bathroom being shared by all with no pipe-borne or treated water readily available.




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Nigeria: the crisis spares no one – a Kano version of the pandemic

Kano has become the epicentre of the spread of Covid-19 in northern Nigeria. A large number of so-called “mysterious” deaths was recently reported, but the state government of Kano blatantly claims that the sharp rise in deaths is not due to Covid-19. Here we provide an eyewitness account from an IMT comrade in Kano.




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Kootenay tiny home puts a lounge in its bump out

This bump out adds extra space for a cozy sitting area.




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Recycled suitcase sculptures 'unpack' metaphysical baggage of the refugee experience (Video)

Using recycled materials and audio recordings from refugees, this exhibition hopes to deepen understanding and connection with those who have had to flee their home countries.




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Immigrants get a new microbiome when they come to the U.S.

Unfortunately it's not an improvement.




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Plant-based meat takes center stage at Kroger

Vegan burgers, sausage, deli slices, roasts, seitan, and even jackfruit are moving to the meat department at the nation's leading grocery retailer.




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Reused Tires Make a Squid-Like Playground for Refugee Children

When Go Play! announced a competition to design an innovative playground for 1,000 refugee children along the border of Thailand and Burma, Dutch designer AnneMarie van Splunter thought of old car tires. To




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Deadly Floods in Thailand Are A Symptom of a Larger Problem

Since July, floods have ravaged Thailand, causing $3 billion in damage and killing nearly 300 people. But as the waters approach the capital city, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra says he is confident




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Rare Footage of Wildlife in Thailand's Forests Shows That Anti-Poaching Efforts Work (Video)

Elephants, tigers, and other threatened species are thriving in Thailand's Western Forest Complex thanks to conservation efforts.




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Gorgeous New Tree House Hotel in Thailand Offers a Green Retreat from Bustling Bangkok

Just a 30-minute ride on public transportation outside the Thai capital, travelers will find a cluster of jungle tree houses where they can breath clean air, explore a lush landscape, and sleep under the stars.




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Clip-on Apartment Purifies Waste Water, Generates Its Own Energy

I don't think it would actually work, but it is an innovative way of reskinning buildings




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Temporary bamboo bridge replaces tourist attraction in Thailand

floating bridge is described as "a magnificent piece of engineering."




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Almost 1,000 smuggled turtles found in luggage at Thai airport

Some people want pet turtles, and they don't care where they're from or whether they are endangered species.




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Wonderful Uber ad demonstrates why we have to get rid of cars

Whether they are are autonomous, self-driving or "shared" like Uber and Lyft, they are still congestion.




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We need walkable, wheelable, scooterable and strollable cities, and what we are getting is more sprawl

Fewer people are walking and more people are voting with their gas pedal.




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American roads are dangerous by design, and more people are dying than ever before

"The time for complacency has passed. We must treat this crisis as if our lives, and the lives of our friends, families, and neighbors, depend on it. "




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The new piece of outdoor gear that every woman needs

Because no one likes to pop a squat surrounded by piles of soggy toilet paper.




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After 139 years, General Electric stops making light bulbs

There will be indignation, but this is the result of one of the most successful transformations of a market in our lifetime.




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Halogen bulbs banned in EU as of September 1

The LED revolution will not be stopped.




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After the big Northridge earthquake, a mysterious cloud appeared above LA – here's what it was

Calls came into emergency centers and even the Griffith Observatory from LA residents who described seeing a “giant silvery cloud.”




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Christmas Trees Given Jellyfish Genes Could Produce Their Own Light

The only downside, of course, is that your self-lit holiday centerpiece actually would be a Frankenstein tree.




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Study Shows That If You Shop Daily, You Live Longer

We have made the case that small fridges make good cities; now a new study indicates that small fridges make healthier people.