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On MNN: Robot hotels, over-conditioned offices, seasteading still sinks, and I Kondoed my phone!

A look at some recent posts on our sister site that might interest TreeHuggers.




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On MNN: Tanks for printers, the return of the water fountain and the end of hitchBOT

And put away your phone if you are on vacation.




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On MNN: Bikes stopping for red lights! And other reporting from Copenhagen

Also a look at smart phones for boomers and for refugees, and making the Raspberry Pi higher.




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On MNN: A totally brilliant bell, common cleaning mistakes and are ad blockers the death of the web?

A look at our favorite posts from our sister site.




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On MNN: Don't pack away that standing desk, a bridge to New Jersey and a few Boomer Alerts

A really interesting housing project and a look back at Canadian Thanksgiving




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On MNN: Big beds, Working from home is the worst, the death of the stick shift.

And a really nice solar decathlon winner.




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ON MNN: More on kitchen exhausts, exploding hoverboards and fire trucks

Why are our cities being designed around the needs of the trucks instead of vice versa?




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On MNN: The maple syrup bubble, soundproofing your apartment, and the library of things

and lessons in management from Renaissance Florence




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On MNN: We are all Flint (NOT), ban disposables and your thermostat is spying on you

And dancing robots!




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On MNN: Clueless boomers, and in praise of Tim Cook

also: recycling in crisis, how we will live in 100 years.




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Boomer alert: How cities must adapt to an aging population, and vice versa

A review of posts about aging baby boomers on the Mother Nature Network.




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Why a young biologist refuses to eat fish

From mislabelling to plastic contamination, eating fish isn't as safe or healthy as most diners would like to believe.




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Finless Foods is bringing lab-grown fish to your dinner plate

This young startup uses cellular agriculture to grow fish out of water -- delicious, nutritious, and cruelty-free.




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Dolphins are breaking into nets to steal fish thanks to overfishing

Why does this not surprise me?




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Tiny entangled seahorse rescued, rehabilitated, and returned to the sea

Tangled in fishing line with things looking grim, the story of Frito's rescue is inspiring all around.




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Top 4 supermarket chains for sustainable seafood

Greenpeace's annual survey of national retailers' progress on sustainable seafood reveals the leaders and the losers.




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Asking if animals can feel pain isn't really about science

Scientists argue over whether some animals have the brains for suffering.




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Amateur scuba divers train to be "ghost net busters"

Abandoned fishing gear is a big problem. But a small army is training to tackle it.




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George Monbiot In Vancouver

George Monbiot, who is touring his new book Heat, spoke in Vancouver last week. It was riveting, inspirational, and depressing all at once. Ecoshock, an environmental internet radio station, will be posting a recording of Monbiot's speech. Ecoshock is




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"Why Not Have Another Go at Exxon Instead?" Bibi van der Zee Takes on Monbiot

The Guardian columnist and environmental thinker George Monbiot usually manages to provoke a strong debate in our comments sections. Some time ago, our post on his new book Heat raised a fierce exchange of views about the impacts of flying, meanwhile his




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Bianca Jagger, George Monbiot + Vandana Shiva Attend Be The Change

The 2007 Be The Change Conference is fast approaching and has an amazing line up of speakers to inspire you with the theme "The Sky's the Limit". For the fourth year in a row the BTC conference brings together world leaders in sustainability and social




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George Monbiot: "We Need 100% Cut in Carbon Emissions"

George Monbiot, everyone's favourite controversial climate commentator, launched the Be The Change conference with a bang here in London yesterday. He leaped off the starting blocks with the statement that not only is it imperative that we reduce Co2




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Final words from Be The Change 2007

The Be The Change conference last week was chock-a-block full of fascinating speakers, enlightening information and inspiring actions. So far we've shared George Monbiot and Richard Reed's presentations and Drew Dellinger's poetry. We're just sorry we




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George Monbiot Is a "Fructivist"

A lot of people have called George Monbiot a lot worse, but he calls himself a fructivist, which is not defined in any online dictionaries, but appears to derive from the latin fructificare or fructus, meaning fruit. He calls himself obsessed with




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Another Quote of the Day: Two Views on Polar Bears

In his erudite analysis of the global warming issue, Don Blankenship of Massey Coal expressed his opinion about the future of polar bears:




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Biofuels Cannot Be Called Sustainable in UK Advert: Board Upholds George Monbiot's Complaint

The debate over the true ecological sustainability of biofuels, the effects on global food prices, and their oft-heard claims of carbon-neutrality has been played out on TreeHugger in great detail. Adding a new




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Monbiot on Theft of our Past, Kunstler on our Future

The American public is deathly afraid of the kind of changes we actually face -- such as, the end of consumer culture, the gross loss of value in suburban real estate (which




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Quote of the Day: George Monbiot on Handouts Resprayed Green

In the UK and Canada, manufacturers are urging the government to give consumers money to get old cars off the road and into newer, lower emission vehicles and "catalyse a new low carbon transport revolution." George




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Monbiot: Environmentalism and Alternative Medicine Shouldn't Mix

Image credit: HowStuffWorks Environmentalism and Alternative Medicine - Oil and Water? George Monbiot is undoubtedly no stranger to controversy - my post about his climate change book, Heat, drew 81 comments, while his well publicized opposition to




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EvanEco goes to the Carnival, Monbiot on Biochar, Accidental Eco Maniac Highlights Women + Water, and More

EvanEco: Carnival of the Green 172 by Don Bosch "Got milk? Grab a glass of the white stuff and a chocolate chip cookie, and join me for some green bloggy goodness..."Guardian Ethical Living: Ethical Superstore and Natural Collection merge into giant




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George Monbiot Says "Don't Blame the Fatties"

Matt recently wrote Eat Like It's 1975 to Save the Planet: New Report Links Obesity, Energy Consumption & Climate Change, which said We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness, and recognize it as a




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Monbiot: Canada's Image in Tatters

Since the Viet Nam war, Canadians (and some Americans) have been sewing Canadian flag patches on their backpacks when they travel to distinguish themselves from their neighbours. But they will be ripping them off soon, as the country becomes an




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Let's Do The Time Warp Again: Monbiot and May vs Lomberg and Lawson

It is the battle of the M&Ms; vs the L&Ls; the Munk debate in Toronto about the statement "Climate change is mankind's defining crisis, and demands a commensurate international response" with Bjorn Lomberg and Nigel Lawson duking it out




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George Monbiot on Junk Science, Rational Thought, and The Tragedy of Giving Up Nuclear (Podcast)

The Guardian's George Monbiot talks about climate deniers, junk science, and the need for nuclear.




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Monbiot: We’re on the verge of carmageddon

Actually, we have been down this road before...




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Monbiot: We have to phase cars out within ten years

"Let’s abandon this disastrous experiment."




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Sawmill House by Olson Kundig wins COTE award for "design and sustainability"

I get the design part, but is it really sustainable?




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Low-Tech Magazine switches to a low-tech, low carbon website

Blogging like it's 1999 might make sense for a lot of people.




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Spanish lawmakers aim for 90% carbon cuts by 2050

By 2030, 70% of the country's electricity could come from renewables.




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Go ahead and AVA Byte of fresh produce from this countertop garden

This soil-free smart garden promises fresh greens and veggies that are grown as local as it gets.




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Flexible device harvests body heat to power wearable electronics

The material can also heal itself to keep medical devices running indefinitely.




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Greenpeace tech product guide ranks Apple, Samsung low on repairability

A consumer product guide compiled along with iFixit shows which brands make it easy to fix our gadgets and which don't.




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Turn your car into your office with a Skype-equipped BMW

This truly is just what we needed.




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Device that harvests energy from human motion could be seamlessly integrated into clothing

The device is so thin it could be woven into fabric without changing the feel of it.




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Robotic eel tracks down pollution in lakes

The modular robot could swim through bodies of water to detect and find the source of pollutants.




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Massive Norwegian data center will be fully powered by renewable energy

The data center will be the largest in the world.




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Johns Hopkins sets record for drone blood delivery flight

The new study shows that drones can handle longer aid delivery trips than previously thought.




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This super-bright LED strap light is ridiculously useful (Review)

Personal lighting just took a huge leap forward with the Kogalla RA.




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Your new indoor garden could be a tree -- a Living Farming Tree, that is

This aeroponic indoor gardening system from the Italian startup Hexagro is modular, scalable, and automated.




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7 smart methods to remember most everything

Alarms, notifications, and digital lists can only go so far; instead, use these tricks and your own brain power to learn things by heart.