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Stingaree Nightclub Brings the Green to Partygoers

Image via: Flickr Stingaree Nightclub in San Diego is hosting weekly events titled "The Green Side of Sting" each friday in March. Each week a new, local, green group will host a green event at the club, bringing green fashion, sustainable energy and




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2009 San Diego Custom Bicycle Show, April 3-5

If You're in San Diego this Weekend... You love bikes? You really love bikes and you're near San Diego? Well then, you've got to check out the 2009 San Diego Custom Bicycle Show! It takes place this weekend on April 3rd, 4th and 5th. Of course, best not




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EcoZoic: Cycling Clothing Made From Bamboo Charcoal

Images via: Zoic.com San Diego based cycling clothing company Zoic just released their spring line, which now includes EcoZoic - an organic and bamboo charcoal blend of clothing that is both functional as well as eco-friendly. But while Zoic wants to




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San Diego Homeowners, Unite for Cheaper Solar Power: One Block Off the Grid Expands Program

If you live in San Diego and find the prospect of banding together with your neighbors to get better rates on installing your own solar panels interesting, then this one is for you: 1BOG (that's One Block Off the Grid ...) has announced that they will




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Los Vecinos: First Platinum LEED-Certified, 100% Solar Powered, Affordable Housing in San Diego

Image via: Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation Los Vecinos, the first LEED-Certified Platinum, 100% solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego, offer 42-units of state of the art in green housing. The $17.6 million USD project opened its doors




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Four Boutique City Hotels That Let You Use the Bikes for Free

More and more, urban biking has become one of the best ways to see a lot of a city in a short span of time, so it's a no-brainer that more hotels are offering free bikes along with the price of the room. In




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Surfboard Swap Next Weekend in San Diego

Now that the summer surfing season has come to a close, (is there ever really an end to surfing season?), it's time to give your board a little TLC, upgrade any thrashed gear and prepare for the big waves of the




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The Week in Animal News: Long Lost Cat Comes Home, Animals Bathing, and More (Slideshow)

A Colorado family that had long ago given up on finding their cat got some incredible news this week, when Willow was found in New York City -- five years later and 1,800 miles from home.




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When Will Solar Be Cost Competitive in Your Town? Interactive Map Helps Visualize Grid Parity

Solar grid parity will vary from city to city. A new interactive map helps show how it will spread.




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Man lives rent-free in $950 home on tiny urban homestead (Video)

In exchange for cultivating someone else's backyard for a year, this activist is experimenting with an increasingly simpler lifestyle, documented step-by-step online.




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Mobile coworking bus lets professionals work, hike, bike & surf (Video)

This renovated bus is a mobile coworking space that brings location-independent professionals out into the great outdoors, combining work with a hike, a bike trip or a surf ride on the waves.




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Coburn Vows to Block Senate Resolution Honoring Rachel Carson

This coming Sunday would've been Silent Spring author and environmental hero Rachel Carson's 100th birthday. In recognition of Carson's contributions to the creation of the modern environmental movement, Sen. Benjanmin L. Cardin (D-MD) has announced his




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The Bald Eagle is Back in the Black

The American bald eagle is back after a four-decade fight for survival. The government has just declared that the national symbol no longer requires the protection of the federal Endangered Species Act.




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Happy Birthday Rachel Carson

When I wonder what words should replace Emma Lazarus's obsolete phrase on the Statue of Liberty - "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free" I think of Frank Luntz's dictum learned from Joe Romm: "There is a simple rule,




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How a 14th century manuscript could solve our antibiotic crisis

Researchers are poring over an important medieval medical text with 360 recipes, many of which might have successfully fought infection long before modern science.




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Study lights up anti-vaxxers' Twitter habits

Pinpointing the sources of myths that threaten the health of children could help get the truth out to where it is needed




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This high-tech, grow-it-yourself medical cannabis kit is as easy as using an app

Seedo, creators of automated consumer grow labs, will shortly plant a seed in the U.S. medical marijuana market.




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3D printing grows up, heals wounds by printing skin

Scientists have created a mobile bioprinter that when filled with a patient's cells, prints skin directly into a wound.




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Women's not-so-obvious heart attack symptoms

Although heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the US, many don't recognize the symptoms of a heart attack.




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The very surprising way common insomnia drugs can be fatal

The FDA has announced new (and stronger) warning requirements for certain prescription insomnia medications. Here's why.




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Big problems with popular turmeric and echinacea supplements

Lead? Aerobic bacteria? Misleading labels? Consumer Reports tested popular brands of the widely used supplements; here's what they found.




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A brief history of the items in your spice drawer

A visit to a Sri Lankan herb and spice garden reveals a rich history of trade and alternative medicine.




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7 ways to prepare delicious kohlrabi

Sometimes the most boring vegetables are the most versatile.




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Black tea smoothies for a hot summer morning

If you can’t decide between a fruit smoothie or an iced tea, this is the drink for you.




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My love affair with herby, veggie-packed omelets

Forget smoothies. Omelets are the best way to sneak piles of greens into the morning meal.




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It's August, time for the best tomato pasta ever

If you follow the seasons with your diet you will love this.




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Bon Appétit writers show how they use up old food

A pinch of ingenuity can transform sad-looking ingredients into something desirable.




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How to pack the best food for travel

Whether you're in a plane, train, or car, it's important always to have good snacks.




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Free cookbook shows how to slash food waste

Packed with smart advice, this downloadable PDF is full of delicious recipes that can save you money and hassle.




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Thanksgiving is all about the food

Forget friends and family! Without the traditional meal, it feels like any old dinner party.




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On MNN: The year in urban design

Stories from TreeHugger's sister site about how streets are for people.




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Oil industry is spending billions on increasing plastics production

Think we are cutting back? They are just getting started, and we are going to be buried in the stuff.




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Quick-thinking obstetrician delivers a drowning baby moose to safety

"It was cool to be in the right place at the right time," says Dr. Sciascia.




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Save the Buffalo River! America's first national river threatened by Cargill factory hog farm

Forty years ago, activists blocked plans to dam the Buffalo River, eventually getting Congress and President Nixon to designate the river as America's first National River. Now, a factory hog farm is putting one of Arkansas' most beautiful spots at risk.




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Views of the River Thames by artists, showing its changing nature

The River Thames has inspired artists throughout the ages; here's a modern take on it.




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See what environmental problem Robert Redford and Will Ferrell are fighting about

This fake fight has a good cause.




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Artists and scientists collaborate to create giant river sculpture

The Nature Conservancy teamed up with two artists to create a habitat-enhancing sculpture made from natural materials.




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Proposed floating NYC beach would sit on reclaimed barge

Lazy New Yorkers who want to stay on the island and sunbathe will get this floating artificial beach on the Hudson River if this scheme gets crowdfunded and approved.




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River Ethiope could be first waterway in Africa recognized as a living entity

Rivers are people too, you know.




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Man bikes on water to clean up plastics

Ladies and gentlemen, we've finally reached peak TreeHugger.




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Plastic bottles are the most common litter in European waterways

A report found that bottles have surpassed bags and straws when it comes to prevalence in freshwater rivers.




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Biggest dam removal in European history has begun with the Vezins dam

Removal of the 118-foot-high dam in France will free the Sélune River, bringing wildlife back to the waterway and the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.




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It's not just self-driving cars, it is a whole New Mobility Now

A new study looks at how AVs are part of a much bigger picture of how we get around.




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The Honda IeMobi is a mobile autonomous living room and the future of self-driving cars

The car changed the design of our houses; the AV will change our houses and the way we live.




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First pedestrian death caused by speeding autonomous car

Perhaps AVs should have their own lower speed limits until they figure this all out.




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Uber's fatal crash shows we should fix our cities, not our cars

People are being killed every day and the problem is the design of our streets as much as the cars and drivers.




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Bike industry bigwig says bikes will need to communicate with self-driving cars

They want to build beacons into bikes. Will implants in pedestrians be next?




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Waymo may get a $465 million tax credit for buying 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica hybrids

They are going to be autonomous taxis. Is this a good idea?




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Hertz introduces "Cinema Cars" which are what we will all be driving in soon

Self-driving cars will likely be big autonomous mobile home theaters.




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Pedestrians will have to be "lawful and considerate" in a world of self-driving cars

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.