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It's the start of the Extinction Rebellion

Two weeks of climate action are starting on April 15.




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Human composting soon to be allowed in Washington

It's a more environmentally-friendly way to dispose of a body than burning or burying.




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Children influence their parents' opinions on climate change

A study has found that kids exposed to climate change science at school use it to convince their parents of the issue's urgency.




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Walking is Climate Action

We are never going to switch to electric cars in time to make a difference. That's why we have to get out of our cars and walk.




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All-ages coloring book communicates the science behind climate change (Video)

Using officially documented research and color-it-yourself data visualizations, this project aims to convey climate change data in an engaging way.




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How one American family has moved away from fossil fuels

"Being the Change" is proof that weaning oneself off fossil fuels is not only possible, but also joyful and fun for a young suburban family.




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Asking how to save coral reefs leads to better understanding carbon sequestration

Carbon sequestration, the technology taking carbon dioxide out of fossil fuel emissions, just got a boost




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Jargon watch - "cocktail geoengineering" takes fixing the earth to the next level

If one geoengineering plan doesn't work, maybe two or three combined will




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Sentinel-5P puts eyes in the sky to monitor progress in reducing atmospheric pollution

The successful launch of Sentinel-5P means scientists will soon have access to the most accurate monitoring yet of pollution and climate change related gases in earth's atmosphere




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Science suggests path to hope for human intervention to minimize climate change

More importantly, it reminds scientists not to lose sight of the importance of human behavior in the search for answers about the physical processes of climate change




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Help get The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change to every high school in the US

Provoked by questionable propaganda, a group of scientists is setting out to offer an antidote.




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Kilgali Amendment would phase out climate-changing HFC refrigerants. Will Trump ratify it?

Our bet: no.




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World's beer supply is threatened by climate change

Barley is a key ingredient in beer and cannot withstand rising temperatures and longer droughts.




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Is anyone actually listening to Trump about climate change?

Seriously ...




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Why 'South Park' doesn't understand climate change

The show gets a lot right about climate change, Al Gore and Manbearpig, but it misses something major about human nature.




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This professor just got arrested for making climate change graffiti

Governments aren't paying attention to scientific research, but maybe crime will get people's attention.




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Children take U.S. government to court over climate change

The health of young people is disproportionately harmed by climate change, and the government has failed to keep them safe.




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Recycled Tote Bag at Global Exchange

We’ve covered numerous tote bags here on TreeHugger, but there are so many cool styles out there we always find the need to post info about new ones that we spot. This one, found at Global Exchange (who we’ve mentioned before) is handcrafted in




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Saraye: Traditional Tatami Purses from Cambodia

We love products that support or revive traditional crafts. Check out, for ex ample, the work of Kallari, fair trade suppliers of traditional Amazonian baskets, which we reported on here. Now we've come across another cool basket supplier, this time




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District Cotton Takes On Organic Cotton, Mosquito Netting

The contents of your bag reveal more about you than you might think, but what about your choice of bag itself? District Cotton, a New York City-based company dedicated to fashion with a conscience, has a couple of sturdy options that are as socially




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Uncovering an Ancient City Felled by Urban Sprawl

With a population that approached 1 million and a surface area of more than 115 square miles, the Khmer city of Angkor in Cambodia was the largest preindustrial settlement on the planet. After coming into being during the ninth century A.D., it thrived




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Cambodia's First Ethanol Plant Will Use One-Fifth of Nation's Cassava Crop

Just a quick one on ethanol and Southeast Asia: Chinaview.cn is reporting that Cambodia has opened the nation’s first ethanol production facility. Using cassava as a feedstock, at least initially all of the




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Beautiful Handbags - From Your Cat's Fur

"Chatangora" — that's what Simpsonville, South Carolina-based business Catty Shack Creations is calling "cat hair yarn" — used to create affordable, one-of-a-kind handbags from Persian and Angora cat hair. Professional groomer Danelle




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New "Corpse Plant" Species Discovered in Former Khmer Rouge Territory

Previously unknown species in a relatively undisturbed bioregion of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia have been uncovered by a recent study — 24 in total, including a so-called "corpse




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Karaoke: From Cheesy Entertainment to Environmental Education Tool

Karaoke video explaining not to drink water from wells painted red as they contain high levels of arsenic (YouTube via RDI-Cambodia) For this writer, karaoke has long been thought as an activity to be endured rather than enjoyed (and I am sure I am not




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Ecstasy (MDMA) Threatens Rare Cambodian Tree

What could ravers and other all-night clubbers of the world possibly have to do with the increasingly rare Mreah Prew Phnom trees (Cinnamomum parathenoxylon), found in




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China's Hydroelectric Plans to Damn the Mekong Threaten Millions

A few short weeks ago it came out the China had plans in the works to place 20 hydroelectric dams on the upper




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The Electric Bicycle World Tour and What The World Looks Like from an E-Bike (video)

Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage




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Conservation Canines Trained To Sniff Out Tigers in Cambodia

For the first time, conservationists from WWF are putting dogs' superb sense of smell on the trail of tigers in Cambodia. Coming from the University of Washington Conservation Canines program, the dogs are trained to sniff out




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Captured Feral "Jungle Girl" Flees Back Into the Wild

In 2007, villagers captured a mysterious young woman in a remote region of Cambodia who, by all accounts, was completely isolated from human society, a feral child living in the forests. News of her discovery




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Rare Video of Wild Cambodian Elephant Released by Wildlife Conservation Society

There are only an estimated 116 wild Asian elephants in Cambodia's Seima Protection Area, and until now most of the photographic evidence of them has be taken by camera traps. New footage released by the Wildlife Conservation Society changes that. The




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Angelina Jolie and Kids Love to Eat Crickets

Angelina Jolie has inadvertently (or perhaps by design) added "Ambassador for Insect Proteins" to her credentials as a do-gooder. In an interview about her Louis Vuitton ad (you remember, the one




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Archaeologists use lasers to find a lost city

Australian researchers used LIDAR, the aerial laser technology, to rediscover the city of Mahendraparvata in Cambodia.




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Ex-poachers and farmers work together to protect endangered pangolins

A community effort in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains offers hope for this unique mammal.




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Purple Buddha: Cambodia's hidden mines upcycled into jewelry (Video)

Metals from Cambodia's mines, left buried since its civil war, are recycled into elegant jewelry, made by locally trained and fairly paid artisans.




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Eye-opening docu-series puts fashion-loving teens to work in sweatshop (Video)

Fast fashion hurts real people, as this online series challenges three unsuspecting youngsters to go meet and work with the people who make their clothes.




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Sustainable skills, sustainable resources: Nonprofit helps sex trafficking survivors

Nomi Network helps to provide training and jobs to women in India and Cambodia.




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Why you shouldn't use your washer's delicate cycle

It uses twice as much water and releases 800,000 more plastic microparticles per load than a regular cycle.




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Bet you didn't know about this fashion industry dirty secret

It's time to talk about ... wait for it ... the problem with hangers.




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Companies are promoting false solutions to plastic waste

They may sound progressively eco-friendly, but a new Greenpeace report explains why they're not.




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Jargon watch: Aufstockung, or vertical additions

It's happening all over, and wood construction can make it even easier and faster.




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Architectural critic: Embodied energy matters

Architects ignore it. "Heads of sustainability" ignore it. Critics have ignored it, but this may be changing.




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What is "the conventional wisdom about environmentally friendly construction"?

It's a moving target and, like TreeHugger hero Chris Magwood, we are all learning on the job.




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That's no stack of rocks, it's an osmosis between man and nature

Quebec architects propose a 48-storey tower in a forest, "a new relationship between humans and their natural habitat."




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Studio 804 creates smaller houses for a changing market

Dan Rockhill and his students keep pushing the building envelope.




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Landmark study shows how to change the building sector from a major carbon emitter to a major carbon sink

When made from the right materials, buildings can be a solution, not a problem.




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Mass timber construction is about more than just storing carbon

It also can put people back to work and save our forests.




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RIBA guide outlines radical plan for a sustainable future

"This is our last chance to avert a climate disaster. We must act now."




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If we care about sustainability, should we still be building super-tall skyscrapers?

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?




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Do LEED, WELL and FITWEL play nicely together?

Perkins&Will's new Dallas office tries to do all three certification systems in one beautiful historic building.