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5 packaging materials you didn’t know are difficult to recycle

How many of these common items have you placed in your blue bin?




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Summertime and the livin’s [thirsty]: 5 alternatives to bottled water

By making simple, versatile swaps, you can stay hydrated this summer and all year long without ever touching a disposable water bottle again.




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Looking forward from World Water Day 2018

World Water Day may be one day out of the year, but taking the time to reflect can help us make long-lasting impacts that we can carry forward.




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Mysterious moss-covered figures are inspired by forest folklore (Video)

Photographed in various natural settings, these life-sized, child-like works of art invoke a sense of wonder and delight.




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Mesmerizing kinetic light installation interprets phases of the moon (Video)

Using a series of rotating LED lights, this work highlights the visually transformative powers of the Moon.




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Is flying dying? No, it is growing faster than ever

It's expected that by 2037 the number of people flying will double.




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Construction of Machu Picchu's new international airport has begun

While Unesco has asked Peru to limit visitors to the famous site, the government is making it easier for people to access.




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Interface, twenty-five years green

25 years after the start of Mission Zero, they advance to Climate Take Back.




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Wildlife rescuers remember the Exxon Valdez spill 25 years later

The largest oil spill in the U.S. happened 25 years ago today.




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Terrorists could knock US electricity grid out for 1.5 years, but more solar power could help protect it

The idea that the US electricity grid could be knocked out for 1.5 years is a bit shocking. But that's what the agency in charge of protecting it has revealed.




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Anyone thirsty for some "Fukushima Water"?

The new energy drink that is taking Japan by storm!




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BP to pay $18.7 billion for Deepwater Horizon spill

Gulf Coast states and the federal government agree to the highest fine for an environmental disaster in U.S. history.




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This is the ongoing gas leak in California that's an epic ecological disaster

Impact of greenhouse gases released since October measured over a 20-year time frame is equivalent to emissions from 7 million cars.




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The 15 costliest nuclear disasters and the nuclear risks of the future

Largest study yet predicts "The next nuclear accident may be much sooner or more severe than the public realizes"




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Tesla sends Powerwall batteries to Puerto Rico

The company quietly helps rebuild the island's electrical systems.




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One hundred years after the Halifax explosion, what have we learned?

One hundred years later, we are still playing chicken with peoples' lives.




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Why 'ecocide' needs to become an international crime

And how one British lawyer is working to make that happen.




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Teensy little Reelight CIO runs day and night without batteries

Install and forget about these induction powered lights from Denmark.




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Danish dome-sheltered community center is built with wood

Designed to reduce construction waste and with energy efficiency in mind, this new community gathering spot strikes an unconventional pose.




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Have a great shower while saving water and energy with Flow Loop

Flow Loop introduces a new closed loop shower that will bring back one of life’s little pleasures: a long hot wet shower.




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How to have a 'hygge' winter

I am Canadian, not Danish, but I like to think I know how to 'hygge' properly.




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Water sports center is built from old shipping containers

The project in Denmark is a good object lesson.




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Peter Qvist uses computers, CNC milling and hand finishing to create "highly modern handcrafted furniture pieces"

Computers and technology let designers do things that were unimaginable just a decade ago.




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Charge your own batteries as well as your car's at these park-like charging stations

COBE architects are turning charging time into quality time.




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Tired of winter? Don't think Hygge thoughts, they are evil and unhealthy

Fireplaces! Candles! Clutter! What are these people thinking?




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Why do we drink so much bottled water?

The Convenience Industrial Complex figured out how sell us something that we don't need at a price that's too high.




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10 ways to stop being a water waster

There is no resource more precious than water, so here are some great tips for conserving it.




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US President wants to roll back 25 years of water saving toilets and showers

Billions of gallons of water may be wasted because of this.




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Cows, Goats Escape from Slaughterhouse, Only to be Forced Back In

Dozens of sheep and goats broke out of a slaughterhouse in upstate New York on Tuesday night, and gave police quite the runaround.




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Is It True That Farmers Feed Antibiotics To Livestock To Make Them Grow Faster?

I always thought the 'it makes them grow faster' reasoning for why they put antibiotics in animal feed was a myth and that the truth was more complex. Farmers found they could crowd animals




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Modern Farmer asks, "Is humane slaughter good enough?"

Mac McClelland at Modern Farmer ponders the term "humane slaughter" and visits Prather Ranch, a certified organic beef ranch, to see how it is done




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Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 5. Eroding Soils Darkening Our Future

Sometime within the last century, soil erosion began to exceed new soil formation. Now, nearly a third of the world’s cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, reducing the land’s inherent fertility.




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Ancient clams give forth glassy pearls that came from outer space

Researchers studying fossil clams in Florida believe they found the souvenirs of an ancient meteorite.




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What would a nuclear winter look like?

We talk a lot about the devastation of a warming planet, but what if things went the other way? A new study confirms the worst.




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12 signs that a hard winter is coming

Historically we've looked to nature to help forecast the weather; here are some indicators gleaned from generations of folk wisdom.




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9 freaky phenomena revealing how warm this winter was

In many part of the world, the 2019-2020 winter was the winter that wasn't.




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The reusable water bottle that stole my heart

My search for the perfect water bottle is over thanks to the beautiful, drinker-friendly, ocean-loving, coral-planting NAECO Bottle.




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Border Region Looks to Desalination to Counter a Parched Rio Grande

We´ve noted in the past plans for new desalination plants in Australia and low-grade energy desalination technology from New Mexico.




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Water on the Brain. We're Learning. Slowly.

Residents of the driest inhabited continent, Australia, have evidently been cottoning onto the fact that water means life and we need to be more thoughtful in our use of this rather precious resource. Since the year 2000, Australians have managed to




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Ecocities of Tomorrow: Can Foster + Partners' Masdar City in U.A.E be Truly Sustainable?

With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab Emirates has now turned it attention to building the




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Tampa Bay Florida Area Drinks Oil-Fired Water

There isn't much choice, as groundwater reserves are insufficient. But really...is bottled water any worse than this? Four years behind schedule and nearly $80 million over the original budget, the nation's largest sea water desalination facility




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The TH Interview: Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth - Middle East (Part One)

Bromberg, then a young lawyer working for an environmental NGO in Tel Aviv, was frustrated that environmental issues were not




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The TH Interview: Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth - Middle East (Part Two)

In part one of this interview, Gidon discussed FoEME's work in promoting cross-border




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Green at WIRED NextFest: High-Volume, Small-Footprint, Low-Cost Water Purification

XEROX/PARC Spiral Water Filtration Technology A typical water-treatment plant is very big and very expensive. XEROX's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has come up with a new technology that could make the whole process cheaper and simpler, potentially




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Observe World Water Day on March 22

Images from Prix Pictet World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 every year, is an initiative of the United Nations that recognises that water is a basic requirement for all life. This year's theme: "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities" and "Whether




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Dean Kamen on Clean Energy, Clean Water, and Commuting in the Mega City (Part One)

Dean Kamen is the kind of inventor we don't imagine exists anymore—a fervent polymath like Thomas Edison. Best known as the creator of the Segway, Kamen is also responsible for major breakthroughs in clean energy, water purification, prosthetics,




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Dean Kamen on Clean Energy, Clean Water, and Commuting in the Mega City (Part Two)

With his planes, helicopters, and other fuel-hungry pets, Dean Kamen admits that he takes a lot out of the world. This just means that, in keeping with his immigrant grandfather's advice, he has to put more back in. In the second part of our




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Why is Water Such a Big Issue? Global Water Challenge Pres. Paul Faeth Sets Us Straight (Part 1)

Having given Global Water Challenge a Best of Green award earlier this year for their innovative work on the issues of drinking water and sanitation, it goes without saying that TreeHugger is a fan of their work.




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Out of Water? How We Might Make More

Stand at the edge of a reservoir, river, or ocean and it's hard to imagine that the planet could ever run out of water; even just a day at the beach makes your one small shower a day seem like less of a threat. But with




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DIY Seawater Desalination by Delicious Lady and Grandson (Video)

Directed by David Valero for the Spanish eco-short-films festival La Luciernaga fundida, this video shows how a grandmother and grandson desalinate seawater at home.