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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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Perkins + Will Retrofits 25 Year Old Office Building to LEED Platinum

Proof that buildings from the 70s and 80s can be fixed well instead of demolished: Perkins + WIll gets the highest LEED score in America.




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Tom Vanderbilt On The Importance Of Walking, Both For Our Health and For Our Cities

St. Augustine said "Solvitur Ambulando": It is solved by walking. So does Tom Vanderbilt in this great series in Slate.




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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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Eco-friendly 'super food truck' first on the East Coast

Yumbii, an Atlanta-based food truck, adds a low emissions super food truck to its fleet. Check out its environmentally friendly features.




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Headline of the week: Suburbs will thrive forever

Forever is a very long time.




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Link Between BPA and Heart Disease Seen in Urine, New Study Reports

A new study finds those with heart disease had higher concentrations of BPA in their urine.




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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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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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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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Turkmenistan Starts Building New Desert Sea: Glorious Deed or Disaster Waiting to Happen?

The Aral Sea, Central Asia's most (in)famous body of water, has become a global symbol of environmental mismanagement. But at least one government in the region doesn't seem to have




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Could Bacteria-Filled Balloons Stop the Spread of the Sahara? Architect Magnus Larsson Thinks So

Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,




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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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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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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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Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass

Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native




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Threatened Tortoises Slow Down Desert Solar Project

The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of




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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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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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Man selling mint leaves in Morocco (photo)

It took me hours, but I finally found this guy.




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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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The beauty of wind turbines

Photographer Joan Sullivan documents the drama of their construction.




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Another problem with fracking: Increased sexually transmitted infections?

If a massive water footprint, air pollution, contaminated drinking water, earthquakes, and general environmental degradation weren't bad enough...r




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Cheap natural gas is making it very hard to go green

It's killing everything, including renewable energy.




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Bald eagles are littering Seattle backyards with landfill trash

Some 200 bald eagles are scavenging the goods at Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dumping the leftovers in suburban backyards.




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Photo: Beautiful barn owl soars over a field

Our photo of the day comes from the Essex countryside.




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Photo: Family meal, flamingo-style

Our photo of the day shows how to make an awkward bill look like a thing of grace.




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Glass buildings are killing hundreds of millions of birds every year

Here is another reason to hate the Hudson Yards in New York City.




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11-foot-tall bird discovered in Crimea

Discovered in a cave, the surprising find reveals a fast and giant bird that weighed almost as much as a polar bear.




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13 facts about the beautiful bald eagle

Here's what to know about America's favorite bird of prey.




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Why are London's house sparrows disappearing?

If you guessed that climate-crisis-fueled, disease-carrying mosquitoes are wiping them out, you may be correct.




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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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Photo: Glorious great egret displays its prize

Our photo of the day comes from Hampton, New Hampshire.




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Not long ago, native parrots lived all over the eastern US

The Carolina parakeet was the only parrot species native to the US; by 1918, we had killed them all. New evidence explains their demise.




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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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Photo: Great gray owl goes hunting

Our majestic photo of the day comes from Quebec, Canada.




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Artists create a tiny house in a loft

They also build a "tree house" for themselves. It's almost an indoor community.




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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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Common Good cleaners want to help you to reduce and reuse

Common Good was started by Sacha Dunn and her husband Edmund Levine out of their personal desire to have refillable and eco-friendly option when it comes to cleaning supplies.




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Lovewild Designs crafts beautiful confetti and stationery that blooms

A sustainably-minded designer makes cards and paper coins that you can plant.




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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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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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Stair of the week is a shifting workspace with alternating treads

These multi-talented stairs do more than one thing in this apartment renovation in Brooklyn.




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A 'Mosaic' of Green Features at New Prague Hotel

Count Prague in on the trend toward green hostels and hotels: The opening late last week of a cool new central-city accommodation not only provides a fresh option for eco-conscious travelers, it also marks a green "first" or two