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11 ways to accessorize the green way

Love to accessorize, but want to stay green? Here are some ways you can do both.




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How to bring green into the classroom

Teachers, are you looking for ways to teach green values to your students? We've got ideas lined up for you!




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10 ways to live better electrically

The cost of electricity is going up (both in dollars and in environmental and health impacts). Here are some tips for reducing your costs and impacts.




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15 resolutions you could make for a happier, lower-impact 2019

Reducing your carbon footprint and building community go hand-in-hand toward creating a better planet.




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10 ways to green your work ethic

A greener workplace can mean a lighter ecological footprint, a healthier and more productive place to work and good news for the bottom line.




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Nobody's perfect, and you don't have to be

We all have to change the way we live or we are in big trouble. But let's be real about it.




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Morocco pledges to ax fossil fuel subsidies

A level playing field for renewables is about to get a step closer, at least in Morocco.




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2050 carbon goals are great, but we must cut emissions now

End goals for CO2 emissions are just one part of the picture. How fast we start moving toward them is just as important.




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XPrize is giving away $20 million for a new technology that makes something good out of CO2

The competition is looking for new ideas for capturing the emissions from fossil fuels and turning them into something useful instead of harmful.




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First ever porous liquid shows promise for carbon capture

Up until now, only solid materials have offered the ability to capture materials using the filtering power of pores




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Why we should all aim to be carbon positive

Minimizing your footprint is nice. Maximising your impact is better.




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Air into fuel: Scientists convert CO2 directly into methanol for fuel cells and more

The researchers have found a simple way to create an energy source for fuel cells using CO2 in the air.




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Ford is turning captured CO2 into plastics and foam for car parts

In what is said to be a first for automakers, Ford is developing foams and plastics using captured carbon dioxide, which could be integrated into the company's vehicles within five years.




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What's the environmental impact of a loaf of bread?

Researchers were shocked to discover what part of the bread-making process generates most emissions.




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New carbon capture technology could help microbreweries recycle CO2 & cut costs

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.




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Smokestack America is back!

President Trump will unleash America's "vast energy wealth." Just watch.




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This Swiss facility is sucking carbon dioxide out of the air for growing veggies (Video)

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.




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Rheticus project teams German giants to harvest CO2 in artificial photosynthesis

Evonik and Siemens announce two-year project to demonstrate feasibility of "technical photosynthesis" using eco-electricity to convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals




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Definition of irony: Britain hit by CO2 shortage

It's also affecting everything from meat packing to crumpets.




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CO2 doesn't know borders, but we are shipping embodied carbon all over the world

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."




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Happy 10th Birthday, Bitcoin. Now go away before you fry us all.

The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.




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Report: Scotland could reach 'net zero' emissions by 2045

The goal could be reached even earlier, if Scots changed what they eat.




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10 Historical Figures You Had No Idea Were Environmentalists

From Genghis Khan's reforestation to King Edward I's 14th century ban of coal mining, these famous people were dedicated to TreeHugger ethics --- even if they didn't know it.




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By 2050 We're All Likely To Be Using Fewer Resources, Whether We Like It Or Not

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.




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Peak People? Are We Actually Running Out of Our Most Valuable Resource?

Everyone is worried about population growth, but in fact it may well be going the other way.




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Why Birth Control is as Important as a Climate Treaty or Food Aid

Excessive population growth presents an immediate environmental danger greater than climate change.




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Global Economy Expanded More Slowly Than Expected in 2011

Without a more comprehensive vision of economic health and better ways to measure it, we are flying blind on a path to economic decline and collapse.




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Growth in World Contraceptive Use Stalling; 215 Million Women’s Needs Still Unmet

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.




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Farms Use 60 Times More Land Than Cities: It's Time to Develop Terraculture

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.




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Expect 2°C Temperature Rise by Mid-Century, Club of Rome Report Says

On a more positive note, the report also notes that population growth with stabilize sooner than expected, at about 8 billion people by 2042.




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Redefining Security for the 21st Century

The 21st century needs a redefinition of security, to something broader than military terms, a relic of the Cold War.




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The UN's Rio+20 Conference Matters

Here's why the United Nations' Rio+20 Conference matters to everyone.




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Reproductive Rights Scrubbed From Rio+20 Text - Why That's Bad News for the Planet

Opposition from the G77 Nations and the Vatican led to the removal of the words 'reproductive rights' from the Rio+20 text, leaving in 'acceptable modern methods of family planning'.




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Wired Magazine Tells Us "Don't Worry, Be Happy" About Climate, Population, Resources, Pandemics

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.




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David Attenborough Calls Humans a "Plague Upon the Earth"

And there are plenty of humans who would agree.




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Hans Rosling debunks myths of child birth and the "developing world"

The brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so-called developed and developing countries.




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If the world's population was 100 people [Infographic]

Graphic designer Jack Hagley's new infographic shows the world's population as 100 people.




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Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 2. The Ecology of Population Growth

The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people.




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Women Must Be Heard in the Climate Change Debate

Women are more affected by climate disruption worldwide, so their voices must be heard.




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Hans Rosling: Debunking the myth that helping the poor is causing overpopulation (video)

The incomparable Swedish medical doctor and statistician Hans Rosling tackles a very perverse and tenacious myth about overpopulation.




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Can we prevent a food breakdown?

As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself.




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OVER illustrates perils of overshoot and impacts of human overpopulation on our planet (review)

This large format photo book features hundreds of stunning images highlighting the effects that our global population of 7 billion (and growing) has on the Earth.




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World population likely to surpass 11 billion by end of century

Says the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.




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For World Vasectomy Day, men encouraged to 'get whacked for wildlife'

Concerned about the overpopulation of our planet and the effect it has on wildlife? Perhaps it's time to talk about the most effective form of male contraception.




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Do we have a population crisis or a consumption crisis?

Population growth is in fact slowing down but everyone is using more of everything.




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Why is the world's population growing faster than expected?

If the latest projections prove to be accurate, we need to plan for about a 10% increase in the needed supply of food, drinking water, and energy, and in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.




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UN revises population projections downward

Annual growth will soon be negative everywhere except Africa.




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22 perfect words about books and reading

On National Book Lovers Day, we celebrate the ultimate slow hobby.




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How many books is your social media habit replacing?

The number is probably far higher than you think.




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Which is greener, books or e-books? Neither.

There is a third, more sustainable option: the library.