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Could Annoying Your Little Brother Be a Catalyst for Solar?

Not long ago, my parents installed a sizable solar array on their home in England. Now my brother has just emailed with photos of his own installation. What's going on? Besides providing more evidence that solar feed-in




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City's Local Currency Is Accepted for Paying Taxes

Local currencies are nothing new, but one city is allowing its businesses to pay their taxes with local money.




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Community Supported Aquaponics Takes Off in the UK

Volunteers are trialling an urban fish farm allotment in Bristol, England. Could this help ensure food security in an uncertain future?




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Photos show hearts and souls made out of foraged flowers

This looks like lungs, sort of, but it's really made out of meadow flowers.




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Streets are for people (and water slides)

A slippery art installation in Bristol, England, reminds us that streets are not just for cars.




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Building an up-cycled, open source cargo bike for a city of hills

The Bristol Cargo Bike project is creating a "light weight mega geared micro logistics vehicle of choice for a city of hills."




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Go knock yourself out with unconventional parenting, but please stop talking about it

"Most people are already operating ‘off grid’ in different ways to varying degrees, but the vast majority don’t feel the need to make a big lifestyle song and dance about it."




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Bristol, England, aims for carbon neutrality by 2030

"It's an emergency," say council members. "So let's act like it."




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Teddylux Recycled Cashmere Soft Toys

Abandon not all ye moth-eaten and shrunken cashmere sweaters—designer Brooke Serson Cernonok of Teddylux can sprout an entire menagerie from your castoffs.




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What Does Al Gore Have to Do With Football?

This week former Vice-President Al Gore made a stop by Atlanta last week to talk about...well, climate change. But while he was there, he took the time out to talk to one of the NFLs most green athletes, Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli. Still




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7 Short and Senseless Flights We'd Love to Ban

Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane. Not only do you




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Slow Food Pop-Tarts, Made with Serious Love (A Foodie Gift Find!)

With science pointing to all the pitfalls of sugar on human health and longevity, I have ever more reason to curb desserts and hidden sugars. Sadly, "reason" lacks in my vocabulary during the holidays. On




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TreeHugger Staff Meets in Atlanta, Gets Overtaken by Beards (Pics)

This week, the full-time TreeHugger crew met up in Atlanta to pow-wow over the blog we all know and love. We are serious subscribers to the working-from-home-is-green ethic, but about every 18 months or so, we get together to




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The Hub, a Shared Work Space for People Who Care. In a City near You!

Working in shared office spaces is an attractive solution for creative start-ups, and has become more and more sought-after in many of the bigger cities. Green Spaces in Manhattan has turned into a well-working




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How Old Hotel Soap Can Save Thousands of Lives

I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are




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Mom Charged With Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street After Kid Killed By Hit-and-Run

I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current transportation




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Walkscore Rates the Most Walkable Cities In America. Is It A Useful Metric?

Yesterday I wrote about a mom who was convicted of vehicular homicide after her son was killed by a drunk hit-and-run, because she crossed the street from a bus stop without walking almost half a mile to the traffic light. Today Walkscore has released




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Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Have No Car, No Access To Transit

Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America: In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than




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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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Lloyd Alter's Favourite Stories of 2011: July

It's summertime, and the living is easy, and we are talking about air conditioning.




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How Refugees are Cultivating a Garden and Growing Community

A community garden in Atlanta proviudes refugees from around the Globe a space to grow food, share their culture and to build community as a result.




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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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#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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Hacked standing desks overwhelm office system

Things don't quite work as they are supposed to when people stand up.




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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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Open concept modern tiny home has plenty of personality

This loft-less tiny home makes quite a statement, both inside and out.




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Sidewalks are critical infrastructure and should be a civic responsibility

It is appalling that in much of America, they are considered a frill.




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Headline of the week: Suburbs will thrive forever

Forever is a very long time.




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Atlanta sets goal of 100% renewable energy by 2035

It is the first big city in the South to commit to being fully renewable energy powered.




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China and Malaysia to Ban BPA From Chidren's Products

It was a sad day last year when intense lobbying efforts in Congress won out, and a ban on BPA in children's products was blocked. But it seems that China and Malaysia have beaten us to the punch. According to Green Biz, China and




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Would You Prefer Your Receipts To Be Paperless?

More and more stores are getting rid of paper receipts and offering to send electronic versions by email.




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From Parentables: Bisphenol A Found In Canned Soup Marketed To Kids

A new study from the Breast Cancer Fund shows that BPA is found in canned foods marketed specifically to kids. This should be no surprise to TreeHugger readers; we have been talking about BPA lining cans for years. All




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BPA Identified As Potential "Environmental Obesogen"

Just when I thought it would be fine to cook with canned tomato sauce - bis-Phenol A recently having been granted toxicology probation - emerges the possibility that BPA can make you obese. Ohhh wait - not




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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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FDA Punts On Banning Bisphenol A; NRDC is Outraged, But I Think They Got It Right

It is one thing to ban something, it is another thing to have something to replace it with at hand. We don't.




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BPA is FDA's Latest Gift to Food Industry

Without a hint of irony, FDA maintains several web pages with helpful information for parents and others wishing to avoid BPA, such as: “What You Can Do to Minimize Your Infant’s Exposure to BPA.”




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An Aerial View of BPA: Where Are We Since the Rejected Ban?

Where does the FDA stand on a BPA ban?




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Can SUBSPORT Help Chemical Companies Move Towards Safer Alternatives?

The Substitution Support Portal SUBSPORT launched this week, intending to give business improved tools for substituting hazardous chemicals with safer substitutes.




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Bisphenol A Now Illegal In American Baby Bottles and Sippy Cups, No Thanks to FDA

It seems that the only people who benefit from this rule change are the members of the American Chemistry Council who make BPA.




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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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Fetal exposure to BPA is linked to prostate cancer

A new study from the University of Illinois shows how chemical exposure early in life can alter stem cells and cause disease.




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A safer alternative to BPA could come from paper-making waste

Researchers have found that lignin, a compound found in wood, could replace BPA in plastics.




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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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BPA could be affecting desire to exercise

Study assessed the effect of endocrine disrupting chemicals on mice's desire to exercise and found that it makes them lazier.




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'BPA-free' plastics often uses Bisphenol-S ... which might be just as bad

From one problem to the next...




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Two-thirds of food cans tested contain BPA, and the alternatives may not be much better

A new report shines the light on a dirty little 'secret' of canned goods, which has little to do with the food itself, and everything to do with the coating in the can.




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Study finds BPA in 86% of teenagers

And that was after one week of avoiding foods that may have come into contact with the notorious hormone-disrupting chemical!




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BPA replacements aren't safe either, study finds

Scientists have found that the chemicals used to replace BPA over the past 20 years have the same damaging effects.