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UK just went 2+ days without burning any coal

The fall of coal has been swift in Britain, and there's no sign of it ever coming back.




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Tour Facebook's New Energy Efficient Data Center (Video)

Facebook just opened their newest data center, which they've pushed to make as energy efficient as possible. In fact, it even inspired the Open Compute project in which they open source every last detail about the data




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Caltech's Energy Retrofit: From Fuel Cells to a Daylighting Celeostat

On Caltech's campus, student engineers and scientists are busy in labs day and night working on hairy solar panels, termite




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4 Ways to Avoid the Hidden Evils of Valentine’s Day

From child labor to blood diamonds, showing your love can have some seriously unexpected pitfalls.




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14 ways to go green this Valentine's day

A list of ways to share the love with everyone you adore without hating on the environment.




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Valentine’s Day by the numbers, are you sitting down?

The holiday once marked by amorous missives and hand-plucked posies has evolved into a day of staggering statistics.




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Green gifts for the darkly romantic Valentine

From carnivorous plants to occult-inspired tokens of affection, these are not your grandmother's Valentine's gifts.




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Have a sweet Valentine’s Day – without the stuff

In this installment of Town and Country, we talk about skipping consumerism on Valentine’s Day.




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6 beauty recipes that are pink and red for Valentine's Day

Get in the Valentine’s Day mood with these fun DIY beauty recipes for masks, moisturizers, and scrubs – all of which are suitably pink or red for the occasion!




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How to celebrate a green Valentine's Day

The size of one's carbon footprint is not usually a major concern on this romantic holiday, but it can be mitigated with advance planning.




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Don't rush out to buy a last-minute Valentine's Day gift

It's important to remember that every physical gift comes at a cost that's both financial and environmental.




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Valentine's Day is losing its allure with young adults

Is Cupid's appeal fading as millennials find the holiday has become too commercialized?




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Utensilmate is a great candidate for the Wrongest Product Award

I can't decide if this is just what I always needed or the worst product ever put on Kickstarter.




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Wretched Excess: Private yachts are so yesterday, now it's private floating islands.

But, we ask, are they green and sustainable?




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Cadbury's Dairy Milk Goes Fairtrade, Next Billion Go To TED, Huff Post on Coal, and More

Cadbury Dairy Milk Fairtrade: Is the future of Fairtrade with big switches by big companies or increasing access to the pioneer brands? "Cadburys says in the FT today that it's not trying to undermine the pioneering 100% Fairtrade companies such as




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TranquiliT Adds Something Green to Your Wedding With Eco-Friendly Bridal Gowns

TranquiliT may be better known for its downward-dog-friendly garb, but the erstwhile yoga-wear label is now rocking the frock, matrimonial style. Outfit the femmes of your bridal party—bride, bridesmaids, and flower girls—in 95 percent organic bamboo




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How to make your wedding day green

A wedding is one of the most important days in a couple's life. If you care about the planet, why not integrate your principles into your big day?




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6 ways to keep it simple on your wedding day

If you keep it simple, then the wedding will be more fun and relaxed for everyone involved, not to mention kinder to the environment.




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UNEP & TreeHugger Launch Blogging Contest for World Environment Day

Once again, we're proud to partner with the United Nations Environment Programme to help fight food waste and bring attention to World Environment Day.




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Vote now for World Environment Day Blogging Contest!

Did you know that 50% of food produced is wasted? It is true, but thankfully, the United Nations Environment Program and TreeHugger are helping shine a light on this problem with our fourth annual World Environment Day Blogging Competition.




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Winner announced in World Environment Day blogging contest

Charles Immanuel Akhimien, a Nigerian doctor and writer, will report from WED host country Mongolia.




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U.S. Food Waste Challenge honors World Environment Day

In keeping with this year's theme, the USDA and EPA are launching a challenge to reduce food waste at each step from farm to fork.




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Fighting food waste around the globe in honor of World Environment Day

A round-up of stories addressing the global problem of food waste.




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Mongolia hosts World Environment Day to highlight sustainable future

I was fortunate enough to attend the official start of World Environment Day in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Here's why their vision for a sustainable future is so important.




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United Nations Environment Programme announces the 2014 theme of World Environment Day

Vote today for your favorite slogan!




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21-year-old activist wins World Environment Day video competition

The United Nations Environment Programme and goodwill ambassador Don Cheadle have selected a winner. See the video here.




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Ian Somerhalder named Goodwill Ambassador for World Environment Day 2014

The actor known for The Vampire Diaries and Lost joined today's World Environment Day celebrations in Barbados.




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World Environment Day highlights Barbados’ sustainability programs

The host country of the United Nations World Environment day is working to protect its natural resources and adapt to climate change.




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Davos meeting entails 1,700 private jet flights...and a few new bikes

At the World Economic Forum, the elite of the global economy arrive in the least sustainable mode of travel - a private jet. Yet a few of them will walk a few kilometers to donate bikes to school kids.




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World Environment Day 2015 to promote sustainable lifestyles

The UN Environment Program takes aim at unsustainable consumption in 2015.




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World Environment Day launches logo design competition

Design a logo for this year’s World Environment Day and win a trip to Milan, Italy.




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Enter the World Environment Day blogging competition and win a trip to Milan

In anticipation of World Environment Day on June 5, the United Nations Environment Programme is hosting a blogging competition to raise awareness about this year’s theme of sustainable consumption.




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Football star Yaya Touré joins the World Environment Day celebrations as goodwill ambassador

The soccer star arrived in an electric retro-fit Fiat Panda and attended a cooking demonstration.




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American roads are dangerous by design, and more people are dying than ever before

"The time for complacency has passed. We must treat this crisis as if our lives, and the lives of our friends, families, and neighbors, depend on it. "




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The world's 11 certified Dark Sky Reserves, where the stars run riot

Idaho is working hard to create an official dark sky reserve, which would make it the first in the US and the 12th in the world.




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Dazzling technicolor greenhouse lights up when you touch the plants (Video)

Combining touch, sound and a psychedelic array of programmed LEDs, this installation brings the people to the plants.




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Study Shows That If You Shop Daily, You Live Longer

We have made the case that small fridges make good cities; now a new study indicates that small fridges make healthier people.




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Tiny 355 sq. ft. micro-apartment is expanded with adaptable mini-loft

A small apartment gets enlarged by knocking some walls down and adding a multi-functional staircase and mini-loft.




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Happy Birthday Alfalfa House

Alfalfa House provides low-cost, ethically-produced and minimally-packaged wholefoods which are predominately organic, biodynamic, as well as




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eCycleway - Safe Urban Cycling or Dangerous Segregation?

It is an undisputed truth that the majority of American cities have incomplete bicycling infrastructures. This is perhaps especially true in Los Angeles, where




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A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Planning your holiday party schedule in New York City can be calendar jujitsu, what with work parties, friends parties, family parties, but there are also a few green themed parties that the sustainably minded New Yorker




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It's National Handwriting Day. Do you still write by hand?

Some people do; others use a keyboard for everything and have forgotten how. What about you?




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Presidents' Day Survey: Who Is The Greenest President?

The results are often surprising.




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One-a-day bananas: Genius at work or waste of packaging? (Survey)

Bananas are already in a perfect package. But is this even better?




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Presidents' Day Survey: Who Is The Greenest President?

The results of our annual survey are often surprising.




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Who's Looking Out for Your Lungs? Industry and Legislators Pressing EPA to Drop Tighter Ozone Standards

You can't blame them for trying: With the White House set to change hands in less than a year's time - likely bringing on board a more eco-friendly administration - industry groups have been pressing the EPA to squelch stricter air-quality standards




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Geoengineering Virus Infecting Gates Foundation?

Wealthy individuals funding geoengineering feasibility studies because no one else will.




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It's all about delight: Why Vancouver is a multi-modal success story

Clarence Eckerson Jr's latest video has lessons that can be applied everywhere.




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Leaked UN climate report warns of dangerous global warming. Will the world listen?

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was expected to delivery its fifth Assessment Report (AR5) next month, but over the past weekend, a draft of that report was leaked to Reuters, which reported the early findings.




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Here’s how much UN scientists think we should cut our meat and dairy consumption

A new report examines the environmental and health impacts of consuming animals products.