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How vets used fish skin to help save sweet Stella after a fire

Fighting for her life after narrowly escaping a horrible house fire, doctors used sustainable fish skin grafts on the Rottweiler's burns to help save her life.




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Bon Appétit writers show how they use up old food

A pinch of ingenuity can transform sad-looking ingredients into something desirable.




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River Ethiope could be first waterway in Africa recognized as a living entity

Rivers are people too, you know.




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Man bikes on water to clean up plastics

Ladies and gentlemen, we've finally reached peak TreeHugger.




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Plastic bottles are the most common litter in European waterways

A report found that bottles have surpassed bags and straws when it comes to prevalence in freshwater rivers.




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U.S. Feeds One Quarter Of Its Grain To Cars While Hunger Is On The Rise

The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels. More than a quarter of the total U.S. grain crop was turned into ethanol to fuel cars




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Corn Ethanol, Biofuel's Eldest Poster Child, Is Off To Environmental Reform School

This week USEPA announced that the maximum ethanol content of motor fuel sold in the USA would be allowed to rise from 10% to 15%. Positives of the Agency's decision are: reduced dependence on foreign




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Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 4. Food or Fuel?

The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low-income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history.




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Why you get worse gas mileage in winter and what to do about it

There's no mystery why gas mileage is not as good in the winter, but there are some things you can do to make it better.




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Peak Palladium: Thieves are going after catalytic converters from hybrid cars

The rare metal is now worth US $1,700 an ounce.




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Prix Pictet International Environmental Photography Competition Short List Announced 2012

This competition for the best environmental photography never fails to be interesting and professional.




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Interactive exhibit tells a sustainability story through the lens of contemporary art

Art Works For Change is using a unique online exhibit to inspire change through storytelling, including 'featured tours' of the galleries by leading eco-organizations.




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Celebrate International Ride-Sharing Day Today!

There is a day for everything, and today we celebrate ride sharing.




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CupClub is a poster child for sustainable, circular design

It is a cup as service, rather than cup as product.




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Katerra is "productizing" the housing industry

We have seen many ups and downs in the prefab world, but they may be getting it right this time.




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Master Plan for new community in Bergen is seriously low carbon

It's got all three: low transportation energy, low embodied carbon, low operating energy.




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Katerra opens the world's biggest factory making Cross-Laminated Timber

At Woodrise 2019, Katerra CEO Michael Marks wows the wood world.




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What are "locked-in emissions" and why do they matter?

Also called "carbon lock-in," it's about time.




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The North Face and National Geographic are making clothes from plastic water bottles

The limited edition pieces are designed to give plastic waste a second life.




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Photo: Blushing phantom butterfly is both flirty and demure

Our photo of the day reveals a butterfly of most beautiful contradictions.




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Photo: Stinging caterpillar masters the quiff

Our well-coiffed photo of the day comes from the rain forest of Ecuador.




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Michigan Has Large Shale Gas Reserves, In The Great Lakes Watershed

The Michigan basin has extensive shale gas reserves, yet it is not a political issue for Democrats or Republicans. Why?




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Heart-Powered Pacemakers to Eliminate Battery Replacement Surgery

Researchers propose using the vibrations of the heart to keep pacemakers going, eliminating the need to replace batteries.




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89-year-old Michigan Beekeeper May Lose his Hives After Neighbor Complaints

Beekeeper, and World War II veteran, is at risk of losing his beehives he's had since the 1950s.




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Michigan voters say “No” to wolf hunting

However, the voter’s choice won’t be the final say.




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Bonterra, the PGA and Audubon International Green the Greens

Golf courses looking to go green can look no further than Audubon International. From now until the end of this PGA season, for the first 100 golf courses that sign up at Bonterra Greens the Greens, Bonterra




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Is Brown the New Green? Not Watering Lawns Works

It's catching on: homeowners letting lawns go fallow during the summer without wasting resources on watering. When I lived in Seattle it was a common practice. After the grass turns brown, come fall,




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Do Posh Bees Make Better Honey?

Do posh bees make better honey? These bees, living in the heart of Mayfair, only forage in the best places such as St. James Park and Buckingham Palace.




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Students create 3D grass printer

The printer makes designs from soil, seeds and water that sprout and grow into lovely living artwork.




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This robotic lawnmower fuels itself with the grass it cuts, then harvests excess biomass for later use

Could this be the lawnmower we've all been waiting for?




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Spirit, Science, Art, Reverence Combined Will Build a Better Green Movement

After reviewing the major religions of the world's stances on the environment, it seems pretty clear to me that there are more commonalities than differences. In the realm of metaphysics there are genuine and significant




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Duke Energy dedicates $25 million to EV charging in NC, promises 300 MW of battery storage

In a compromise with environmentalists, the energy giant is committing some significant resources to clean tech.




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Microsoft puts disposable wifi routers into magazine advertisement

Microsoft decided that a good way to advertise its cloud-based Office 365 software would be to actually put a T-Mobile wifi router with 15 days of free wifi inside a magazine advert.




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African inventor makes 3D printer with... E-waste

Kodjo Afate Gnikou is a 33 years old inventor from Togo, in West Africa. Using mostly e-waste that he found in a scrap yard, he built a functioning 3D printer that he calls W.AFATE.




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New smartphone coating could make your screen shatterproof

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.




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Computer chips made from wood could biodegrade

The innovation could mean less e-waste at the end of our electronics' lives.




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Fungi can recycle your smartphone battery

The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.




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Battery recycling machine gives grocery store coupons in exchange for your old batteries

The machines are popping up at grocery stores in Norway.




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How a cheap plywood temporary building became the inspiration for Google's new headquarters

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.




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10 beautiful underwater views from Google Street View

Take a virtual tour of these amazing spots.




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Google to transform carcass of Alabama coal power plant into clean-powered datacenter

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.




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Google to encircle the globe with internet balloons next year

The ring of giant Project Loon balloons will bring data service to people living below.




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Nevermind, there won't be a modular smartphone after all

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has scrapped the release of the Project Ara phone.




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Sidewalk Labs releases its vision for Toronto's waterfront

It is a wonderful wooden and digital world, but will it ever happen?




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Wild City Mapping: Interactive online sharing of wild urban spaces (Video)

This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.




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TreeHugger Radio #202: The Warmest Winter Ever, Arsenic in Your Chicken, Dying Dolphins, and Vermont Versus Monsanto

Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.




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New York laws regulating e-scooters are almost as silly as the rules for e-bikes

They are still banned in Manhattan where they would be most useful. Why not ban parked cars instead?




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Volkswagen designs "micromobiles" for life after traffic collapse

From scooters to cargo bikes, a bunch of alternatives to driving that car.




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Coming soon: weird but maybe wonderful alternative electric vehicles

BRB introduces a bunch of concept vehicles that look like a lot of fun without fossil fuels




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ITDP: e-bikes and e-scooters are climate action

Micromobility can solve the last mile problem and reduce carbon emissions.