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Garden Bridge fiasco wasted £53m

An object lesson in how not to do city-building.




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Climate change protestors ask fashion industry to "stop business as usual"

London Fashion Week was disrupted by protesters who want the industry to declare a climate emergency.




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The Green House on Cambridge Heath adds mass timber addition to rehab of existing building

Waugh Thistleton Architects demonstrate how we should be building for a low carbon future.




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Norway challenges H&M on its sustainability claims

The Norwegian Consumer Authority thinks the fast fashion company is misleading shoppers with its so-called Conscious Collection.




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Small fridges make good cities: the podcast

TreeHugger's Lloyd Alter does radio




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Compact all-in-one kitchen unit hides stove, fridge and dishwasher (Video)

Perfect for tiny spaces, this multifunctional unit can be used as a kitchen, storage and workspace.




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Adaptable kitchen-in-a-box is for cooking-challenged millennials

This compact all-in-one cooking kit is looking to overhaul the traditional kitchen for today's hectic schedules and non-traditional living situations.




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Will the kitchen get Ubered out of existence?

Uber founder Travis Kalanick's new company runs "CloudKitchens" for cooks without restaurants. This will be big.




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British architects put women in the kitchen, British women architects get mad

More proof that some things never change.




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Ferran Adrià's elBulli Restaurant Aims for Zero Emissions with Architect Enric Ruiz-Geli's Smartgrid

Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed




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Tweetable, Interactive Algae Farm is Energy-Generating "Cyber-Garden" (Photos)

This fascinating installation where algae, bioluminescent bacteria, humans and smartphones interact may chart where a new generation of urban "cyber-gardeners" may go.




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Bio-digital, interactive Urban Algae Canopy produces a small forest's worth of oxygen (Video)

This one of a kind structure combines architecture, technology, algae farming and real-time data, and will dynamically respond to environmental factors like weather and movements of people.




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This could be your new favorite winter vegetable

Once you start buying fennel, you won't be able to stop.




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Transition City Bristol: Tackling Climate change and Peak Oil with Community Planning

The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further. For the first time, it is being tried on a city-wide scale,




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Transition City Bristol's Big Event: "Unleashing the Collective Genius of the Community"

Hailed by Rob Hopkins as "possibly the biggest peak oil/climate change/Transition event to take place in the UK", Bristol's Big Event looks set to be a huge collective exploration of the future for this city of 400,000 residents as fossil fuels




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Dramatic Projections Bring Climate Change Impacts Home

Stunning Art Project Projects Impacts of Climate Change TreeHugger was founded on the idea that art and design can help solve the ecological crisis we are facing - most recently evidenced by our round up of environmental artists shaking up the art




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Distributed Energy Generation Would Produce More Than Gigantic Tidal Barrage

The Severn Barrage could create 50,000 jobs and provide 5% of the UK's electricity needs. Critics say we can do better than that.




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Photos show hearts and souls made out of foraged flowers

This looks like lungs, sort of, but it's really made out of meadow flowers.




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Emory U Students Pledge to Do 3 Green Things

As part of their larger Campus Sustainability Initiative, Emory University (GA) students are being asked to commit to each doing three green things in their personal life and on campus. While the program is voluntary, the university




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TreeHugger Staff Meets in Atlanta, Gets Overtaken by Beards (Pics)

This week, the full-time TreeHugger crew met up in Atlanta to pow-wow over the blog we all know and love. We are serious subscribers to the working-from-home-is-green ethic, but about every 18 months or so, we get together to




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Mom Charged With Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street After Kid Killed By Hit-and-Run

I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current transportation




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How Refugees are Cultivating a Garden and Growing Community

A community garden in Atlanta proviudes refugees from around the Globe a space to grow food, share their culture and to build community as a result.




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#1 metro area in US for electric car growth is no longer in California

If you thought the top market for electric car growth was somewhere in California, you'd be right many months out of the year, but not the 4th quarter of 2013.




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BPA Identified As Potential "Environmental Obesogen"

Just when I thought it would be fine to cook with canned tomato sauce - bis-Phenol A recently having been granted toxicology probation - emerges the possibility that BPA can make you obese. Ohhh wait - not




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FDA Punts On Banning Bisphenol A; NRDC is Outraged, But I Think They Got It Right

It is one thing to ban something, it is another thing to have something to replace it with at hand. We don't.




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Study finds BPA in 86% of teenagers

And that was after one week of avoiding foods that may have come into contact with the notorious hormone-disrupting chemical!




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Climate Change Puts the Reality in This TV Show

At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical




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Africa's Great Green Wall Hopes to Stop the Spreading Sahara - If It Ever Gets Planted

It's been a couple of years since the still-planned and so-called Great Green Wall of Africa graced the pages of TreeHugger, so here's a quick update and overview: As the BBC reports, African leaders are meeting in Chad to further push the




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Desert-Dwelling Animals in Strange and Stunning Photos

Deserts are hot, dry, and unforgiving -- which makes them difficult environments for most creatures to survive in. But desert residents who have adapted to the temperatures -- by learning to survive without water, developing their own cooling systems, and




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Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms

Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region




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eBay's Desert Data Center Gets Into Hot Water

Cooling a data center in one of the hottest parts of the USA can be done by using hot water, as eBay's Phoenix facility finds.




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Planting Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Fight Dangerous Dust Storms in Seoul

Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.




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340 Ton Rock Levitates Above the Ground in Los Angeles

It's a 340 ton rock, balancing over a crevice...forever.




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Prehistoric shrimp emerge from Australian desert after heavy rain

Imagine millions of these slithering out from the mud? The eggs of this alien desert crustacean remain dormant for years, waiting for a bout of rain to hatch.




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Huge lake appears in North America's hottest, driest spot

Check out these photos of a surprise 10-mile lake that popped up in Death Valley, California.




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Mind the gap: New bridge in Cornwall is actually two giant cantilevers

What does it feel like to be an arch? Very different from how it feels like to be a cantilever.




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Can we make steel without CO2 emissions using renewable hydrogen?

Yes, in theory. Doing it in practice is a whole other story. This is another example of how the hydrogen economy is a fantasy.




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UK pilot project mixes "green" hydrogen with natural gas

So many flavors and colors of gas these days. They are all problematic.




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"Gasmaggedon" will make it even harder to electrify everything

It's why we have to reduce demand as well, with radical efficiency.




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Sammy, the one-winged bald eagle, snatched from wildlife refuge

The reward for information leading to an arrest has climbed to $12,000.




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These deaf moths defy bats using stealthy acoustic camouflage

Some moth species have evolved noise-cancelling abilities that are more efficient than today's sound engineering technology.




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Zero Waste blogger Lauren Singer lets us look into her drawers and cabinets

We visit the writer behind the Zero Waste blog TrashIsForTossers.com.




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Salvage Supperclub teaches us how to eat everything

A Brooklyn dinner party turns "dumpster diving" into an informative meal.




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Striking natural furniture weaves geometry with traditional craft techniques

Featuring eye-catching geometries, local and non-toxic materials, these unique furniture pieces meld a medley of traditional weaving and woodworking techniques.




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Brooklyn's modular tower: What a long strange trip it's been

FC Modular, that "cracked the code" of tall modular, is no more.




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Another Problem with Carbon Credits: They Get Stolen

At least $40 million worth of carbon credits have been stolen in recent weeks from various registries across Europe, in what some are calling a growing black market for carbon credits.The Wall Street Journal explains that there are




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Magenta is an ultra-compact tiny house built for $10K

This bright pink wonder is small, but packs in quite a bit of the basics.




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Solavore Sport solar oven offers zero-carbon cooking in a lightweight package (review)

Simmer like a crock pot and bake like an oven, using the clean energy of sunlight.




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Forget about Life-Cycle Analyses, we don't have time.

The CO2 emissions from making stuff like concrete, plastic, aluminum and steel matter right now.




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Arrive is a nifty camping gear rental service

Why spend a fortune buying it when you don't use it that often?