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The fight against food waste requires a new mindset

Toni Desrosiers, founder of Abeego beeswax wraps, wants people to start thinking about the natural life cycle of food.




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"As If From Nowhere" Hides Table and Chairs In Plain Sight

Designer Orla Reynolds Designs a Bookcase Like a Stage Set for Small Spaces




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Horsemeat scandal in UK and Europe continues to threaten confidence in food chain

The horsemeat scandal in the UK and Europe could make more people turn to vegetarianism.




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Magical thatched wooden pavilion contains "portals to the universes" (Video)

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long-vanished lake.




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Sustainable pavilions highlighted at Expo Milano

In honor of World Environment Day, organizers of the World’s fair highlighted the greenest exhibit designs.




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Even mail without an address gets delivered in Ireland

In which snail mail provides a lesson in the loveliness of slow living.




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8 ways to use honey to pamper your skin and hair

You'll be surprised at how many beauty treatments you can make with just honey and a few ingredients.




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How Do You Teach Kids to Live Sustainably on an Island?

Environmental education is playing a bigger role around the globe as we all learn more about our environmental surroundings. As




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News Corporation Announces New Sustainability Targets for 2015 and Beyond

News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral.




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Is keeping up with TreeHugger too much work? Let us help with our newsletters. We have a daily, edited by me, and a weekly, edited by Warren McLaren. Today I muse about how Amazon is Now Selling More Digital Kindle Books Than Print Books. Have a look




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Did News of the World Hack into Climate Scientists' Emails?

The scandal du jour is unquestionably the phone-hacking debacle surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid -- which, until it was canned due to allegations of myriad criminal deeds, was England's top-selling




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Bloomberg News Launches Sustainability Section

The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.




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Dear Globe and Mail editor: Cancel my subscription!

Margaret Wente trots out every 20-year-old trope spouted by tired old discredited climate change deniers.




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Teacher's modern tiny house has hidden storage staircase (Video)

This contemporary tiny house from the Netherlands incorporates lots of great layout and storage ideas.




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World's first floating dairy farm comes to Rotterdam

Let's hope cows don't get seasick.




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Floating Recycled Park modules are made out of reclaimed plastic trash (Video)

Plastic waste has been diverted from the city's shoreline to create a cost-effective, green space alternative.




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Aluminum Lume travel trailer sports retractable roof for stargazing (Video)

This stylish and durable trailer looks like a cross between a mini-Airstream and a horse trailer, and has a kitchen in the back.




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Dutch playground shut down over noise complaints

Apparently kids are meant to be seen and not heard.




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Startup to grow fresh 'super-local' food out of recycled shipping containers in Paris

Founded by two sons of farmers, this company wants to grow farm-fresh food -- out of shipping containers.




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Mobile solar 'sail' powers Shigeru Ban's spherical auditorium in Paris (Video)

Looking like a "great ship," this solar-powered music venue is a new gateway into the city.




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538 sq. ft. attic apartment renovated with industrial materials & cinematic flair

This revamp of an 1830s apartment mixes modern materials to create a modern space.




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A mountain range is a concert hall for this musical duo

The Musical Mountaineers carry a violin and piano up trails to perform in secret wilderness locations.




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Lightweight prefab wood framing system goes together without nails

Forget about 3D printing houses; digital fabrication using sustainable materials is a much bigger deal.




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The silliest standing desk setup we've ever shown on TreeHugger, complete with high chair

It sorta defeats the purpose in about twelve different ways.




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This gorgeous standing desk is sleek, smart, and sustainable

Made by NextDesk, the Encore is ideally green, with bamboo top, recycled aluminum frame, and VOC-free coating - perfect for this TreeHugger writer!




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Philippine Fiber Secret to Naturally Water-Repellent Rainwear

In this tog-eat-tog world, the future of fashion—let alone that of green fashion—lies entirely in the industry's chameleon-like ability to reinvent itself. Take Italian outerwear company Allegri, for example. Although better known




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Typhoon Haiyan: 'State of calamity' in the Philippines, 10,000+ feared dead

Many feared the worst, and it seems like that's what we got.




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'Naming and shaming' is a powerful tool in the fight against plastic waste

Companies will do anything to protect their brand – maybe even redesign packaging.




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A Christian Perspective on Organic Dairy Farming and Positive Child Labor (Video)

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether




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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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Artist & engineer team up to create paints made out of environmental toxins (Video)

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.




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Philadelphia taxes soda to raise money for schools and parks

The mayor has portrayed the controversial soda tax as a great source of revenue with which to do fabulous things for the city, rather than a benefit for public health.




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More praise for dumb cities

Smart cities are not a panacea, and the New York Times is on it.




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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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Stadium in Qatar is demountable and relocatable and even has shipping containers

It makes a lot of sense in a country with no workers and five other permanent stadia.




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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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Co-working offices are built out of shipping containers inside old bakery

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.




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Shipping containers transformed into prefab college classroom

Made with a tight budget and schedule, this structure was up and running within a matter of weeks.




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Vancouver apartment block looks like a stack of shipping containers

I mean, shipping containers are hot. But does this kind of shipping container architecture make sense?




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Konbuild shipping container homes break out of the box

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense




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Starbucks opens sipping container drive-thru in Taiwan

It is an eye-catching Kengo Kuma design, but it ain't sustainable.




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Cedar-clad shipping container becomes architect's home office

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.




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True Studio is a 162 sq. ft. modern shipping container home

This cozy and compact dwelling out of Oregon packs one bed, one bathroom, a kitchen and porch.




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Industrial spaces and condos are neighbors in this Vancouver development with shipping container look

Another look at a controversial housing project.




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Do hydrogen powered trains make sense?

They actually might in certain cases, using off-peak power at peak times.




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Sainte-Marie among the Hurons is lit by 5,000 candles at Christmastime

Called 'First Light,' this now-famous event at Ontario's first European-built settlement is a special experience for the whole family.




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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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Billboard transforms air into clean water in Peru (Video)

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.