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7 family activities for Earth Hour

7 great ways to spend the time and spread the message of Earth Hour with your kids. On Saturday, March 26, 2011, governments, businesses, residential homes, and




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Can 1 miracle plant solve the world's 3 greatest problems?

Kenaf, the carbon-sequestering monster plant, provides food, shelter and carbon credits.



  • Research & Innovations

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Wall Street Journal to host ECO:nomics summit

World's leading CEOs and policy-makers 'creating environmental capital' in tough economic times.



  • Research & Innovations

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Carbon offsets don't ease airplane emissions

Travel company cancels offset program citing its inability to reduce global emissions.




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Hackers steal $4 million in carbon credits

European carbon market comes to a screeching halt after hackers use a phishing scheme to steal $4 million in emissions credits.




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Family tips for living car-lessly

An interview with author Alan Durning on his family's year of living car-lessly.




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Zipcar IPO may bring $75 million

Car-sharing service Zipcar is betting that name recognition will boost sales of its common stock in an upcoming initial public offering.




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Millennials like hybrids, women like SUVs and self-driving cars get a collective 'meh'

Two new studies decipher who prefers which kind of car, revealing unexpected attitudes that challenge many assumptions.




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Why ride-sharing makes sense for millennials and baby boomers

A new report from KPMG sees 500 billion annual miles from people who might have otherwise stayed home.




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Gogoro's Smartscooter might scoot into North America sooner

You can now get a charge out of its new go-anywhere GoCharger.




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Coming soon: A gyroscopically balanced electric commuter car

The Lit Motors C-1 can cruise 200 miles on a charge, and even a truck can't pull it over.




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Tesla offers a 400-mile upgrade to Roadster owners

Is this the start of a trend in which automakers make money retrofitting older cars?




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Not for soccer moms: Mercedes V-ision is an executive minivan that plugs in

Seen at the Geneva Motor Show, this green family hauler doubles as an office.




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When will EVs get sounds to warn pedestrians? It's coming, but expect delays

And no, we won't be able to use ringtones. (There will likely be standardized noises.)




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A badly injured leopard beats the odds to make a miracle recovery

Rescuers spent months nursing a paralyzed leopard until the day he stood on his own paws.




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Harvard startup offers for-hire tiny houses in the middle of nowhere

Getaway provides a woodsy, off-grid respite from the concrete jungle.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Plant-clad Hawaiian micro-home is perched atop a hollow 'trunk'

Don't want to live in it anymore? Just covert it into a drive-through shaved ice stand.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Dumpster-dwelling professor upsizes (just a bit) to portable urban micro-homes

At 208-square-feet, Kasita smart apartments are roughly the size of 6 garbage receptacles.



  • Remodeling & Design

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The nicest camper cabins in all of Minnesota win architecture award

The treehouse-esque bunkhouses of Whitetail Woods Regional Park score big at the AIA Housing Awards.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Seattle commits to $12 million in modular housing for the homeless

Assembled as a local factory, the prefab housing units will house over 200 people at 3 different sites.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Bosco Verticale: An urban forest grows in Milan

Bosco Verticale, Milan's literal vertical forest, boasts the equivalent of 2.4 acres of richly green land.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Milan will counter climate change with help from 3 million new trees

Milan, Italy's smoggy second largest city, envisions a future that's cooler, cleaner and swathed in green.



  • Climate & Weather

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Extinct-in-the-wild bird hatches at Smithsonian

This Guam kingfisher chick is one of the rarest birds in the world.




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Missouri files suit against California egg law

New requirements for happier hens infringes on the interstate commerce protections of the U.S. Constitution, says Missouri attorney general.




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7 last minute handmade gift ideas

Need a gift in a hurry? Here are some fun and festive ideas sure to please anyone on your holiday gift list.




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5 more affordable, last minute gifts for foodies

These gifts that food lovers will appreciate can be bought at local stores or ordered online up to the very last minute before Christmas.




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10 easy, last-minute digital gifts for Christmas

We've rounded up the best last-minute gifts: presents you can send your loved ones digitally that will arrive in email immediately.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Last-minute gifts you can find at the grocery store

Combine food shopping and gift shopping this year by taking advantage of a well-stocked grocery store.




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The debt commission and the gas tax

What increasing the federal gas tax could mean for highways, green cars and the nation's bottom line.




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AT&T reaches another clean fleet milestone

AT&T's growing clean fleet allowed the company to avoid purchasing one million gallons of petroleum-based fuel in 2010.




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Two amigos: Toyota and Ford

The two big automakers will work together on creating hybrid versions of gas-guzzling SUVs and trucks. If they don't, fuel costs will price Americans out of the




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Chinese company to buy Smithfield Foods; Business boon or disaster?

To meet China's insatiable demand for pork, Shuanghui International is turning to an American company to help 'bring home the bacon.'



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Obama administration reverses 'wild lands' plan

A plan to protect more than 11 million acres of land in the American West has been scrapped after months of talks inside the Beltway.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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U.S. approves huge wind farm in Wyoming

The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre project could include up to 1,000 wind turbines, which would make it the largest wind farm in North America.




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Media Mayhem: Cap-and-trade panic a familiar media tactic

As history has shown us, environmental regulations often help the economy, not hurt it. Why can't corporations -- and Congress -- learn from the past?



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: High noon for 'SuperFreakonomics'

The bestseller’s flawed climate arguments show that maverick heroes aren’t right about everything.



  • Climate & Weather

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More young and middle-aged adults having strokes

In 1994, 12.9 percent of strokes occurred in adults between ages 20 and 55, whereas in 2005, 18.6 percent of strokes occurred in this age group, according to th



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Jon Stewart tackles global warming deniers

Video: As the Copenhagen summit continues, global warming deniers are popping up all over. Perhaps they're right, says Jon Stewart, it's all a conspiracy of tho



  • Climate & Weather

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Obama speaks at climate-change summit

Video: President Obama addresses the leaders of nations attending the climate change conference in Copenhagen, urging countries to step up before it's too late.



  • Climate & Weather

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Half of greenhouse gases 'emitted by 5 nations'

The first 10 countries on the list, made available during UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa, account for two-thirds of global emissions.



  • Climate & Weather

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Top photos: Tiptoeing through mistletoe and 1 really smart car

The best photos of the week as presented by the Mother Nature Network, including a landfill worker in Cambodia and a mistletoe farm.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Senate committee may take EPA's wallet

Each time the EPA is attacked Democrats struggle more to defend it




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Swedish family moves into new home, begins strict carbon diet

An experiment in low-impact living called One Tonne Life finds a Swedish family moving into a 'climate-smart' home to drastically reduce their carbon footprints




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How can I take an ecologically sensitive cruise vacation with my family?

A few ocean liners have been working to cut back on their pollution. But you're still free to be a glutton at the buffet.




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U.S. CO2 emissions to stay below 2005 levels as coal use shrinks

Energy-related CO2 emissions will be 7 percent lower than their 2005 level of nearly 6 billion metric tons in 2020, according to new government data.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Ocean acidification may be fastest in 300 million years

The world's oceans are turning acidic even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56 million years ago.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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IBM energy conservation projects save $43 million

Energy efficiency efforts are a highlight of the company’s 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report.




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Tree planters hit milestone at Louisiana wildlife refuge

Two million trees have been planted in the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge as part of a carbon offset program.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Startling statistic: Wasted food is world's third-biggest carbon dioxide emitter

Wasted food accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except China and the United States, according to a new report.




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Using legos to explain carbon emissions

Need climate change data defined in simpler terms? It doesn't get any easier to understand than this.