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Porsche American Headquarters Has Green Roof, Natural Ventilation

There is something contradictory about building a Green Porsche Headquarters at an Aeropolis, but whatever.




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More on the Trick or Treat Test: Calculating the "Candy Density."

Planner Paul Knight shows how to do the math and figure out where to go for maximum candy




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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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The whole city of Florence can fit in one Atlanta cloverleaf

Steve Mouzon looks at the true cost of sprawl.




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Sidewalks are critical infrastructure and should be a civic responsibility

It is appalling that in much of America, they are considered a frill.




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From Parentables: Bisphenol A Found In Canned Soup Marketed To Kids

A new study from the Breast Cancer Fund shows that BPA is found in canned foods marketed specifically to kids. This should be no surprise to TreeHugger readers; we have been talking about BPA lining cans for years. All




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Campbell's Says It's Heading BPA-Free

Under pressure from parents and breast cancer groups, Campbell's Soup says it has transition plan away from BPA in motion




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What is Causing Early Puberty In Girls?

New York Times article asks a lot of questions, and doesn't deliver a lot of answers.




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Can SUBSPORT Help Chemical Companies Move Towards Safer Alternatives?

The Substitution Support Portal SUBSPORT launched this week, intending to give business improved tools for substituting hazardous chemicals with safer substitutes.




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More Americans Drinking BPA in Canned Beer, Thanks to Economy and Pabst Drinking Hipsters

Beer cans are lined with the stuff, but hey, thats the price you pay for convenience.




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Bisphenol A Now Illegal In American Baby Bottles and Sippy Cups, No Thanks to FDA

It seems that the only people who benefit from this rule change are the members of the American Chemistry Council who make BPA.




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Jargon Watch: Plasticarian

A new term for those who try to live without plastic, that might just catch on.




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Popeye the Sailor Man after a life of eating from BPA lined cans

Cartoonist Joe Mohr shows how the chemical might have affected the cartoon hero




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Fetal exposure to BPA is linked to prostate cancer

A new study from the University of Illinois shows how chemical exposure early in life can alter stem cells and cause disease.




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Scientists agree that BPA is an "ovarian toxicant"

Studies of humans, mice, monkeys, and sheep all point to the same scary conclusion -- that BPA wreaks havoc on the female reproductive system.




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More Americans drinking BPA in canned beer

What's in that "polymer lining" in every can? A gender-bending hormone that may be really bad for you.




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EWG has released new report on BPA in canned food

Find out which brands are the best and worst players in the canned food industry right now.




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Two-thirds of food cans tested contain BPA, and the alternatives may not be much better

A new report shines the light on a dirty little 'secret' of canned goods, which has little to do with the food itself, and everything to do with the coating in the can.




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Who cares about BPA? Canned beer is more popular than ever

Nobody should be drinking canned beer. Period. But it is particularly bad for young women.




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If BPA is so terrible, why is everybody still drinking beer and pop out of BPA lined cans?

There is a fundamental logical inconsistency here. Either the stuff is bad for you or it isn't.




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Happy 83rd Birthday, American beer can. Now go away.

There is no place for you in a healthy, circular economy, and this is nothing to celebrate




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Australia's Invading Camels Soon to Be Croc Food

Locals in one region of the Australian Outback have been terrorized of late by a roaming band of feral camels. Drought conditions and a recent heat wave are being blamed for driving some 6,000 camels into residential areas near




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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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Footballs To Be Made from Feral Camel Leather

Australia has a feral camel problem. The Australian Feral Camel Management Project estimates that 1 million of rogue dromedaries roam outback Australia, annually causing over $14 million AUD worth of damage to infrastructure and




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Arabian 'Unicorn' Back from the Brink in Middle East Thanks to Captive Breeding Program Success

A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until




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8 Awesome Airstream Hotels, From the California Desert to the French Pyrenees

A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up.




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How to reverse desertification. With rocks.

Could strategically-placed rock walls help to re-green the desert?




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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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Why choosing solar panels or a hybrid car has more impact than you think

As it turns out, personal energy choices can be contagious.




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Why is Canada fighting over a gas pipeline to nowhere?

The world is awash in LNG that's a lot closer to the ocean and a lot cheaper to move.




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Photo: California towhee is the picture of spring

Our photo of the day comes from Atascadero, California.




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Photo: Pelicans put on an air show

Our photo of the day comes from Cape San Blas, Florida.




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African grey parrots surprise researchers with their altruism

Few other animals are known to be intrinsically motivated to assist others in need.




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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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Brooklyn building shows that Passive Houses can have apartments too

Although the term “Passive House” might seem to refer to single family homes, these concepts can be applied to all kinds of buildings.




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Two dead because trucks don't have side guards and cyclists apparently can't stay upright

In Brooklyn and Toronto, the same story: "accidents" where cyclists somehow lose control, fall under rear wheels.




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Wood House Sits Lightly On Landscape

One can build a house out of wood and cover it up, or one can celebrate the nature of wood, as this one in Slavonice, Czech Republic does. Designed by E - M.R.A.K. | Martin Rajniš, Kamila Amblerová, Václav Horecký, it is built out of unplaned, uncut




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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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Old Chapel Is Made into a Giant Musical Instrument, Controlled with Laser Pointers (Video)

A Czech church was 3-D mapped and made into a one of a kind musical instrument, controlled by visitors' laser pointers.




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Czech out the Oppidum, the ultimate apocalypse hideaway

Because the greenest bomb shelter is the one that's already in the ground.




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Renovated 258 sq. ft. caravan is a modern bohemian home

The inside of this updated caravan is surprisingly chic and comfortable.




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Another Major Blow for Carbon Capture, This Time It Involves the "C" Word

Mongstad industrial area at night. Photo Tøssekaien via flickr. The Norwegians have been big supporters of carbon capture and storage, and the government helped get the public to go along with building of a gas-fired plant near an existing oil refinery




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Australian School Ditches Bottled Water, While Another Becomes First Carbon Neutral School

While no longer breaking news, the endeavours of students and staff at two different Australian schools still merits attention. One school went bottled water free, whilst




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Radical Product Transparency Via Carbon Mapping- Highlight from Opportunity Green

This past Thursday, at the business conference Opportunity Green, one panel entitled Next Generation Carbon Mapping: Radical Transparency and Truth in Advertising captured the attention of the standing room only audience at




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British Columbia's Quest for Carbon Neutrality

In 2007 BC's Premier shocked North America when he announced his government's bold Climate Action Plan. Is it working?




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Improved Cooking Technique Slashes Coal Use. Is Funded Through Carbon Offsets (Video)

Carbon offsets have traditionally gone to technological improvements or reforestation. One group is teaching a different way of cooking. And it's using offset funds for the training.




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Barcelona to Build First Carbon-Neutral Indoor Ski Slope in 2015

Barcelona wants to build an indoor carbon-neutral ski dome, taking waste energy from the gas industry to cool the hall and using renewable energy to power the rest... fact or fiction? Eco-friendly or greenwashing?