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Ohio car dealers are fighting tooth and nail to keep Tesla out of the state

It's déjà vu all over again, again! Auto dealers have been fighting Tesla Motors on multiple fronts for a while now, trying to either force them to do business with the traditional sales model, or be prohibited from selling in certain states.




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Remember the girl hit by car while on Facetime? The driver just got charged.

Turns out he was doing 46 miles per hour in a 25 mile-per-hour zone. But let's all blame the girl for distracted walking!




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Does shipping container architecture make sense? This hotel in London might

Because shipping containers are designed to move and these ones might have to.




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Nomadic home prototype built out of a shipping container (Video)

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.




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Ontario's GreenBelt could be turned into "largest condo farm this province has ever seen"

Doug Ford, now leading in the polls, wants to open up more of it for development.




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Ontario's Doug Ford bans bans on clothesline bans

No green energy issue is too small for the rampaging Premier.




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Happy Simcoe Day: How good planning changed a country (and made room for a lot of Americans)

220 years ago a lot of people wanted to move to Canada. Here is how they were welcomed.




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More Protests in Peru Against U.S.-Owned Gold Mine

The Conga mine, which is majority owned by Newmont Mining Corp, would produce gold as well as copper and silver. Protesters are concerned the mine will contaminate their water and affect a major aquifer.




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Funky Patchwork Daywear with a Peruvian Twist From Green Fashion Label Awamaki Lab (Photos)

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.




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Innovative Foot-Powered Washing Machine Could Alleviate Poverty for Millions (Video)

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.




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Alternative's spring collection features organic cottons made in Peru

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.




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Remarkable hotel hosts guests in clear capsules suspended 400 ft. on mountain (Video)

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.




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The 20 most popular reader's photos of 2019

From ancient trees and strange sea slugs to odd and adorable insects plus more, our most popular reader's photos of the year are a tribute to Mother Nature.




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The Arboretum represents "a new stage in the ecological transition"

Nicolas Laisné's vast project is a very different kind of office development.




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One of the biggest problems with Mother's Day flowers

A new study finds altered neurological performance in children during peak pesticide spraying for the Mother's Day flower harvest.




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Protecting plants by deterrents instead of killing insects

"It's not just about the bees, it's about the survival of humanity"




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Mothers’ pesticide levels linked to autism in their children

A new study provides the first biomarker-based evidence that maternal exposure to insecticides is associated with autism among their offspring.




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Thousands of African gray parrots rescued from traffickers in Congo (video)

Wildlife Conservation Society is treating the purloined parrots at a specially built care facility; some 900 have been released back into the wild.




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Cute animal photos boost your mental focus

Need help paying attention? Cue up the cute baby animals.




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Spiral stair is sleek and "sustainable".

Norwegian architect Tron Meyer cuts a stair out of solid engineered wood.




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Small Japanese house has a "floating treehouse"

It feels much bigger than it actually is, and does not feel weird at all.




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Grand staircase being built in Rotterdam

And when you get to the top of this, you deserve a treat.




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"Staircase of Encounters" is designed to encourage employee interaction

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.




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Not the Stair of the Week, soon to be replaced by "Vertical Walking"

Why go diagonally when you can go straight up?




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Rustic modern tiny house shows another clever way to do the stairs

There's more than one way to go up in a small space, and this is one smart alternative.




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Stair of the week is a loft bed in Singapore hotel

Sometimes you wonder what they were thinking.




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Friday's blood moon will be the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century

This month's Full Buck blood moon will star in the longest total lunar eclipse of the century.




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The ghost of Cassiopeia is a stunning thing (photo)

Hubble just took the most detailed image yet of the eerie and mysterious Ghost Nebula, some 550 light-years from Earth.




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Scientists figure out what the celestial phenomenon "Steve" really is

More than just a typical aurora, researchers have now figured what powers this stunning lightshow and where it comes from.




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Homemade hydroelectric generator uses plastic bottles as water wheel

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.




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Ecotricity proposes "green gas mills" at every UK fracking site

Income for farmers, or fracked natural gas—will communities be allowed to decide?




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I just switched to "green" gas from Bullfrog Power

We used to be able to justify burning a bit of fossil gas, but we cannot anymore.




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The phonebooth is back

This time it is for open offices, when you need a bit of peace and quiet.




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The sheer joy (and simplicity) of not buying gas

Drivers of traditional "ICE" cars often underestimate the convenience of going electric.




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Oil company claims "net zero' emissions goal

And yet it still plans to sell more oil...




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Alive and "Growing" Electric Power Poles in Rural Honduras

With the cost of cement electric power poles and




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Ear Implant Powered by the Ear's "Natural Battery"

Researchers have developed a chip that can run off the low voltage deep within the inner ear.




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Foot-powered washing machine lets you clean your clothes off grid

The small device is perfect for tiny homes or those wanting a convenient, yet electricity-free option.




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Upcycled Rubber Design Products; A Flip Flop Story (Photos)

Studio Schneemann, together with the Kenyan initiative Uniqueco, collect and turn wasted flip flops from the beach into colourful and squichy furniture and lighting.




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An International Music Festival in a Kenyan Slum Seeks to Protect Indigenous Tribes

An international music festival in the slums of Nairobi is unusual enough. But one that plans to stop a dam and save an indigenous way of life? Let's party.




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Kenya's Plastiki? Boat Made From Plastic Bottles & Old Flip Flops

It's not an 8,000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, but it's still pretty cool.




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Photo: Zebra with mom

This photograph was taken at Nairobi National Park, which is located just four miles south of the city’s urban center.




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Not your typical lion encounter

A vagrant Cape Sea Lion that made a record trip to Kenya is rescued from a fisherman’s gillnet.




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Photo: Sweet seal takes a roll in the Hawaiian sand

This endangered Hawaiian monk seal was photographed at the Poipu Beach Park in Kauai.




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Solar-powered plane stuck in Hawaii until 2016 because of "irreversible" damage to batteries

There are worse places to be stuck than in Hawaii... I'm starting to think they did it on purpose!




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Fukushima radiation has fried clean-up robots

It's a job even too tough for robots.




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Is nuclear power "the only proven climate solution"?

Instead of building giant concrete buildings filled with uranium, why not build smaller energy-efficient buildings filled with people.




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British Columbia promotes active transportation (e-bikes! scooters! skateboards!), Vision Zero, $850 incentive for e-bikes

There is so much in their new strategy that I can't get it all in the title.




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If governments are going to subsidize electric vehicles, why not e-bikes?

Eben Weiss, the Bike Snob, is an unexpected source for this proposal to save the environment.




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On MNN: Robot hotels, over-conditioned offices, seasteading still sinks, and I Kondoed my phone!

A look at some recent posts on our sister site that might interest TreeHuggers.