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Exploring Community Resilience in Times of Rapid Change: Inspiring Animation (Video)

We live in turbulent times, but this beautiful animation offers a systemic approach to facing up to change.




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Movable Green Walls Create a Transformer Garden (Video)

We've heard of transformer apartments, but what about a transformer garden. These movable green walls create flexible outdoor spaces.




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Jobless Man Builds House That's Literally Made of Money

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real estate market, and an uncertain currency future, make a house out of shredded-up money.




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House Made of a Billion Euro Notes Opens to the Public

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.




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"As If From Nowhere" Hides Table and Chairs In Plain Sight

Designer Orla Reynolds Designs a Bookcase Like a Stage Set for Small Spaces




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Irish Anti-littering PSA Tackles the Problem with Humor (Video)

Anti-littering ad reminds Dublin residents to put trash in its rightful place--or else!




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Horsemeat scandal in UK and Europe continues to threaten confidence in food chain

The horsemeat scandal in the UK and Europe could make more people turn to vegetarianism.




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Seven new architects' works on show and touch at London's Royal Academy

Seven architects have created massive and impressive new structures inside a building from the 1700's.




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Magical thatched wooden pavilion contains "portals to the universes" (Video)

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long-vanished lake.




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Ireland may make high visibility clothing mandatory for cyclists, pedestrians and dog-walkers

People are "risking their lives every winter by wearing dark clothing."




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Delightful forest creatures are carved out of avocado seeds

The humble avocado pit has been rescued from the compost bin of obscurity and remade into these magical little sculptures.




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Even mail without an address gets delivered in Ireland

In which snail mail provides a lesson in the loveliness of slow living.




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People Provide Missing Piece in Biodiversity Puzzle

The head of a cooperative of honey harvesters, a park guide, and a doctor who uses a garden of medicinal plants to treat asthma and other ailments are




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Turkish Beekeepers Abuzz Over Pesticide Concerns

If you ask me, the real "Turkish delight" is served at breakfast time: A square of rich, thick kaymak (clotted cream), topped with fresh-off-the-comb honey (bal).




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Watch 50,000 Honeybees Being Removed from Los Angeles Home (Video)

What happens when you find bees have made your home into their hive? You call Mike 'The Bee Guy' and document it their removal.




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Honey laundering exposed as industry giant admits to mislabeling Chinese honey

The largest honey packer in the US faces criminal charges over fraudulent trade in Chinese honey.




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Burt Shavitz, co-founder of Burt's Bees, dies at 80

Was he a role model or a victim?




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Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving

Darwin made a smart choice when he picked Galapagos as the place to develop his theory of natural selection: This group of islands has some of the most incredible species in the world. Earlier this month, a star-studded group of adventurers with the Missi




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Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving (Slideshow)

A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many




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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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Super sexual centenarian tortoise single-handedly saves his species

Tortoise sauve! The randy 100-year-old Galapagos tortoise has sired over 800 babies.




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The Best Of TreeHugger Delivered To Your Inbox Daily or Weekly

Is keeping up with TreeHugger too much work? Let us help with our newsletters. We have a daily, edited by me, and a weekly, edited by Warren McLaren. Today I muse about how Amazon is Now Selling More Digital Kindle Books Than Print Books. Have a look




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Wind Turbines May Blow Earth Out of Orbit, Coal Lobby Warns: The Onion (Video)

This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have




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Quote of the Day: Timothy Egan on A Mudslide, Foretold

It appears that this act of God had a little help from man, and was an accident waiting to happen.




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Dear Globe and Mail editor: Cancel my subscription!

Margaret Wente trots out every 20-year-old trope spouted by tired old discredited climate change deniers.




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Heroic cow escapes trip to slaughterhouse, hides in Dutch forest for weeks

And in the meantime, the bodacious bovine has become a social media star and will receive a full pardon … as soon as they can get her out of the woods.




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Teacher's modern tiny house has hidden storage staircase (Video)

This contemporary tiny house from the Netherlands incorporates lots of great layout and storage ideas.




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Tiny-house inspired student housing transforms old office building

Looking to tiny houses for design inspiration, these new student housing units have been constructed in a former Rotterdam office.




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Floating Recycled Park modules are made out of reclaimed plastic trash (Video)

Plastic waste has been diverted from the city's shoreline to create a cost-effective, green space alternative.




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Aluminum Lume travel trailer sports retractable roof for stargazing (Video)

This stylish and durable trailer looks like a cross between a mini-Airstream and a horse trailer, and has a kitchen in the back.




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Artist's zoetrope animates the miraculous metamorphosis of the butterfly (Video)

Inspired by her own spine-shattering accident, this sculpture shows the struggle and transformation of these remarkable insects.




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Daan Roosegaarde lights things up without electricity

Glow-in-the-dark wonders are "techno-poetry".




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Co-living development built on a potato field in the Netherlands

Here's how people work together to build their own homes cooperatively.




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Bus stations don't have to be second-rate, as this one in Tilburg demonstrates

Cepezed Architects design a shelter that is elegant and self-sufficient.




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'Weed dating' & trash picking: The new tourist guide to Amsterdam

The city hopes to combat overtourism by getting visitors off the beaten track and doing more useful things.




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Eating off the floor: Modern Paris apartment's floor becomes the dining table

It gives another meaning to 'eating off the floor.'




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Dear World, we're actually not giving up on Paris

125 US cities, 9 states, 902 businesses, and 183 schools so far have all signed a declaration promising to honor the Paris Climate Agreement.




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Mobile solar 'sail' powers Shigeru Ban's spherical auditorium in Paris (Video)

Looking like a "great ship," this solar-powered music venue is a new gateway into the city.




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Derelict garage studio transformed into bright open loft in Paris

A small, rundown garage and artist's studio becomes a new home to a family of three.




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Multifunctional 172 sq. ft. live-work space uses nano-tech materials (Video)

This small and versatile apartment in the heart of Paris uses innovative modern materials for its furniture and cabinetry.




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Man's unique handmade instrument emits mind-blowing sounds (Video)

Made with simple materials, this extraordinary instrument creates experimental acoustic sounds that sound eerie yet beautiful.




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Rap Guide to Wilderness celebrates wild nature and the ways it enriches our lives

The man who brought us the Rap Guide to Evolution is back to entertain, educate, and inspire us with a thought-provoking album that captures the spirit of conservation.




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Animated music video illustrates 'You are what you eat'

Formidable Vegetable Sound System strikes again, this time with their 'ecological electroswing' celebration of soil.




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Lettuce turnip the beets with an electro-swing ode to kimchi

Even if you don't carrot all about fermented veggies, Formidable Vegetable Sound System will rock your kitchen with their 'glitch-permaculture-ukulele-wonk-swing.'




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Hundreds of divers gather for underwater music festival (video)

The unusual concert was held in the depths of the Florida Reef to promote coral reef protection.




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This pianist plays classical music to soothe blind elephants (Video)

Music is a comforting thing, especially for these rescued elephants living in an animal sanctuary.




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8 Stylish Lights for Your Home at London Design Festival

Light up your life and your living room with gorgeous lights from the London Design Festival.




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Famous designers celebrate the classic Artek stool's 80th birthday

This classic design is 80 years young and some famous designers pay hommage.




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Oil silo converted into glowing interactive civic space in Finland (Video)

Using a combination of LED lights, sunlight and environmental data, a disused oil silo has been transformed into Helsinki's newest art installation and urban destination.