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Prix Pictet International Environmental Photography Competition Short List Announced 2012

This competition for the best environmental photography never fails to be interesting and professional.




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Indonesia's Tin Mines are a Health Nightmare

This article from The Guardian explores the tin mines of Bangka and the death tolls that come with them.




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Learn Where The Rare Earth Minerals In Your iPhone Come From

The rare earth metals mining industry is one rife with issues. But is there a way to green up the business?




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Drones will deliver textbooks to Australian students

The unmanned flying devices cut out expensive and polluting shipping methods for the heavy books.




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Do you eat for health or environmental sustainability? The Double Pyramid says you can do both

The Double Pyramid is an innovative way of portraying how the ecological footprints of our food compare to their nutritional value.




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Ed Sheeran's popular song, The Shape of You, now has an environmental version

Global Citizen changed the lyrics to include a strong anti-food waste message, and the result is both entertaining and informative.




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You can't be an environmentalist if...

So you want to save the world, do you? Let's get one thing straight.




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Is it really safe to eat food grown in urban gardens?

Between the industrial waste, rats, and lead dust floating around, I wasn't sure if I should start an urban garden. The question took me to an unexpected place.




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Celebrate International Ride-Sharing Day Today!

There is a day for everything, and today we celebrate ride sharing.




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The sharing economy comes into the commercial kitchen

Commercial kitchens are really expensive to build. Why not share?




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Should cities be allowed to ban Little Free Libraries?

There are reasonable limits on what people can do on their properties. But this goes too far.




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Giant and gorgeous library in China mostly filled with fake aluminum books

There are 1.2 million real ones, but most of it is all about the show.




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Affordable housing project in UK is a demonstration of Radical Simplicity

Architype demonstrates that simple forms and careful window choices are the way to build efficient, affordable homes.




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The North Face and National Geographic are making clothes from plastic water bottles

The limited edition pieces are designed to give plastic waste a second life.




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Why the best smartphone is the one you already have

Douglas Rushkoff explains that the real costs of a new phone are not measured in just money.




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Super agile bush baby robot jumps 4 feet; is cool and totally creepy (video)

UC Berkeley’s new robot is the most vertically agile robot ever built – why is it so unnerving?




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Tesla owners are mining bitcoins with free power from charging stations, but most are mined with coal

Bitcoin mining uses so much power that it may well turn into an environmental disaster.




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Fairphone 2 is the world's first ethical, modular smartphone

If only we could buy it in North America.




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Japanese robot hangs drywall like a pro

The HRP-5Ps were created by man. They evolved. There are many copies. And they have a plan.




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Olympic medals to be made from recycled electronics

Tokyo 2020's organizing committee will transform old smartphones, laptops, and digital cameras into a true treasure.




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University Installs Solar and Electric Car Charging. "Environmentalists" Get Mad.

Western Michigan University is installing solar-powered electric car charging. But it has to chop down nine trees to do it.




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Michigan Has Large Shale Gas Reserves, In The Great Lakes Watershed

The Michigan basin has extensive shale gas reserves, yet it is not a political issue for Democrats or Republicans. Why?




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One Female Left: Wolves May Go Extinct in Michigan National Park

The last pack of wolves in a Michigan national park is near extinction. Should humans intervene?




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Federal Food Aid Recipients Double Their Money at Local Farmers' Markets

The evaluation report three years after Double Up Food Bucks started giving incentives to SNAP (formerly food stamp) recipients




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Deja vu all over again: Michigan auto dealers sneakily try to lock Tesla out of the state

When the incumbents do everything in their power to keep you out of the market, rather than try to compete with you directly on the merit of their products, you know you're on to something.




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Wolf hunt up for vote on Michigan’s November ballot

Does the state of Michigan need a wolf hunt? Voters will get the chance to weigh in.




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Michigan lawmaker wants to call burning tires “renewable energy”

Proposed bill would make burning tires and other industrial solid waste count towards the state’s mandate of generating 10 percent of its energy from renewables.




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Bonterra, the PGA and Audubon International Green the Greens

Golf courses looking to go green can look no further than Audubon International. From now until the end of this PGA season, for the first 100 golf courses that sign up at Bonterra Greens the Greens, Bonterra




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Ideal Bite Goes To Sleep, Urban Evolutions Hangs with Nike, SustainaBee Goes to the Carnival, and More

Ideal Bite: Are you getting very, very sleepy? by Heather Stephenson "You will be if you follow this tip. Conventional anti-insomnia pills work, but if you don't wanna lose sleep over side effects and potentially addictive ingredients, induce




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"Go Dry" Movement Spreads, As Californians Rip Up Their Grass Lawns

Cut the grass will you?...Are you done edging?....Time to water the




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Artificial Turf Versus Real Grass: Which is Greener?

Could TreeHuggers soon find themselves hugging a fake tree or idly philosophizing in meadows of artificial grass? More than 225 million square feet of Astroturf have been manufactured since the plastic carpeting made




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Where Have All the Flowers (Daffodils) Gone?

This is England, the parks and gardens and countryside are supposed to be filled with golden daffodils by now. This is why we live here. But where are they? With this year's never ending winter and the long cold spell just




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Environmentalists Try to Trump Trump's Golf Course by Buying Land

Celebrities buying plots of land to block developments is the new new. Last year people opposed to the third runway at Heathrow Airport bought up a plot in the middle of the runway in an attempt to thwart it. Now opponents to




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Van Gogh Painting is a Vertical Green Wall

It's the first living painting in London's Trafalgar Square, and maybe the first anywhere. A Van Gogh picture has been turned into a green living vertical wall.




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These Artists Use Grass as Their Palette

British artists Ackroyd and Harvey have created a series of temporary grass "photos" of people who work for the local government.




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Cornell Installs Indoor Lawn to Soothe Students During Finals (Video)

The university brings the outdoors in to help students relax and focus on studying.




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All of Existence Should Be Revered: Hinduism & The Environment

Hinduism is the oldest




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The Thoroughly Positive Effects of Positivity & Why Environmentalism Could Use More Of It

There's a really fascinating feature over at Greater Good on the powerful transformative effects that positive emotions have on our wellbeing, our lives, our bodies, those around us. I won't relay all that Barbara




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Republican Presidential Hopefuls Out Of Step With Their Religions On Climate Change

Here at TreeHugger we've long documented how every major religious group has come out supporting strong action on climate change, so the following irony, pointed out by Climate Progress shouldn't come as a shock: Even




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Humans Are Trustees Of Allah's Creation: Islam & The Environment

"The world is sweet and verdant




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108,000 Trees Planted at Buddha's Birthplace in Nepal

Some nice symbolism here... WWF-Nepal reports that it has just completed its target for 2011 of planted 108,000 trees in the Sacred Garden of Lumbini, where the Buddha was born roughly 2,500 years ago. Over the next ten years the




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200 evangelical scientists ask Congress to pass climate legislation

Two hundred evangelical scientists recently wrote a letter to Congress making the religious case for passing climate change legislation.




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Evangelical Christians call on Obama to protect public lands from oil and gas leasing

Rev. Richard Cizik and the nonprofit New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good have released a video message to President Obama calling on him to do more to protect public lands from destruction by private industry.




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UK's National Grid supports 2030 petrol/diesel car ban

The electricity grid can handle a ban, ten years earlier than law makers are aiming for.




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In California, people without rooftop solar panels pay a $65 per year subsidy to those with them

Solar power is a wonderful thing but the benefits are not evenly distributed.




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CA approves utilities' massive $738 million electric vehicle proposal

This will mark a significant scaling of electrified transportation—including trucks and buses too.




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California utility offers rebates and incentives for going all-electric

SMUD demonstrate that all-electric living is actually cheaper than gas.




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UK has passed 1,000 hours without coal this year

That's compared to 624 in the whole of 2017...




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What's all that stuff on Sir Adam Beck's head?

It's an interesting art installation that brings some attention to an electrifying man.




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California utilities will pay you to drive electric

And why not?