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Vision Zero is so 20 years ago. It's time for Moving Beyond Zero.

The new vision promotes active transportation like walking and biking.




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Stockholm to get a forest of timber towers on top of a plywood podium park

It is the "highest, densest and most environmentally friendly new neighborhood" in Stockholm.




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Kids suffer deeply when playtime is not prioritized

Children's lives during summer vacation have been likened to that of battery hens, confined unnaturally and cruelly for long periods of time.




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Gas station benzene emissions 10 times as bad as previously thought

Another very good reason to get fossil fuel powered cars out of our cities.




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On World Wood Day, a look at Germany's tallest timber tower

Kaden + Lager architects are building SKAIO, ten storeys of hybrid timber construction.




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Four ways that falling back from Daylight Saving Time can kill you

We go through this ridiculous change for no good reason at all, yet it is unhealthy and dangerous.




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Timbuk2/Howie's Limited-Edition Messenger Bag

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Curved bamboo pavilion designed to be reused multiple times

Made with strong and versatile bamboo, this structure has had multiple lives and can be easily and quickly assembled and disassembled over and over again.




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Illegal Logging by Pakistan's Timber Mafia Increased Flooding Devastation

Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan. A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the 'timber




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Pakistani Timber Mafia & Climate Change Caused Much of Summer's Flooding

Back when 20% of Pakistan was underwater, I wrote about the influence of deforestation on the flooding--deforestation caused in no small part by illegal logging at the hands of the so-called timber mafia, a group with




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New geothermal technology could produce 10 times the electricity using CO2 from fossil fuel plants

This integrative technology keeps CO2 out of the atmosphere and makes geothermal energy widely available




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Drink Bottles Recycled Today in Times Square will be Converted into a School Garden (UPDATE)

Turn trash into a school garden in Harlem by recycling drink bottles in Times Square today.




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Coffee versus tea: It's the ultimate hot drink face-off

What's it going to be? Check out this fun infographic to learn amusing and interesting facts about both popular beverages.




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70 Story tallest timber tower tipped for Tokyo

Sumitomo Forestry has a lot of wood to use up.




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Terrapax Bags: Ahead of Their Time?

With the demise of Nau, many commentators have been suggesting the trouble was that the company was ahead of its time. We respectfully disagree. Firstly, if ever there was a time for businesses to flourish, who are environmentally and socially




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Ultrasonic clothes dryers could shorten drying time to 20 minutes, and use 70% less energy

The next game-changing technology might not be in the form of an electric car with a longer range, or more efficient solar panels, but rather a better way to dry your clothes.




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Leonardo DiCaprio or Brad Pitt: Who's the More Timely Eco-Hunk? Plus Mickey Rourke Fights Again!

Leonardo DiCaprio lost the Golden Globe, but he's always a winner on the green activist front. The eco-champ has signed on to be the celebrity face of watchmaker TAG Heuer. Replacing fellow eco-hunk Brad Pitt. But, Leo isn't pocketing a cent of his




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Leonardo DiCaprio's Timely Campaign, Paul McCartney's Green Family Affair, and More

Eco-hunk Leonardo DiCaprio is the new face of TAG Heuer Carrera watch. A gig formely held by fellow greenie, Brad Pitt. But, so long Brad and hello Leo! Ecorazzi posted the first shot of his soon to be released ad campaign. The green




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Cross-Laminated Timber is now made in the USA

Our favorite green building material is now made in Oregon




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Why one family is choosing full-time 'Bus Life' after earthquake ordeal (Video)

A brush with death helped this family focus on the most important things in life, prompting them to convert a bus into a DIY motorhome.




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It is time to hunker in the bunker? Or to think about resilience and sustainability?

The rich are different from you and me, they can just buy New Zealand.




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Florida may pass "Sunshine Protection Act" and go on Daylight Saving Time all year round

This is a very good idea that all of North America should consider.




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Contest Time! The Crisis of Civilization Remix Challenge

The Crisis of Civilization explores our modern cultural crises by sampling archive film footage from PSAs. Now the makers are asking budding film makers to have a go themselves.




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One Graphic Even a Republican SuperPAC Ad Will Have a Hard Time Spinning

Value of Fossil Fuel Exports By Fuel, 1949-2010




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Neither Pessimism Nor Optimism Is Relevant for Greens, But Determination Is

Futurist Guy Dauncey acknowledges that the stakes are high and the challenges are enormous. Yet defeatism is not an option.




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Exploring Community Resilience in Times of Rapid Change: Inspiring Animation (Video)

We live in turbulent times, but this beautiful animation offers a systemic approach to facing up to change.




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Taking Time From Volcano Frenzy to Think About Oceans

On one side of the world, the hovering ash cloud is making it very, very difficult for millions travelers to get home and using up a lot of media air. Meanwhile on the other side of the




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Finally Baby-Making Time For One of a Kind Tortoise?

If Lonesome George suffers from performance anxiety, it's hard to blame him. At the ripe old age of nearly 100, the last-of-his-kind Galapagos tortoise has been charged with preserving his species' genetic




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Andy Revkin of the New York Times on Global Population Explosions (podcast)

We've reported before on Andy Revkin's assertion that "climate change is not the story of our time," as well as his sometimes provocative thoughts on geoengineering and other subjects (Rush Limbaugh once suggested the journalist kill himself to save the




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Presenting: The New York Times' Best Paragraph of Climate Reportage in Recent Memory

Earlier today, I wrote about a New York Times article that described Chicago's ongoing efforts to prepare for and adapt to a warming climate. I'd like to revisit that article for a second, as it just so




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New York Times spikes the Green Blog

Did I mention that nobody cares about the environment anymore?




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Passive House movement gets noticed by the New York Times

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.




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Quote of the Day: Timothy Egan on A Mudslide, Foretold

It appears that this act of God had a little help from man, and was an accident waiting to happen.




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Idiocracy in the New York Times: John Tierney on recycling

"Cities have been burying garbage for thousands of years"- so lets keep doing it!




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Wood buildings are back, and the New York Times is on it!

And whatever you do, don't read the comments.




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Finding the time and space to work at home

In this installment of Town & Country, Margaret and Katherine share how they work from home.




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It's summer solstice time! Here's what to know

The 2019 solstice falls on June 21 ... celebrate with a crash course in curiosities about the longest day of the year.




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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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Hickok Cole designs timber towers for Philadelphia

The Timber Towers Project seeks to demonstrate the viability of a mass timber high-rise.




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It's time for an upfront carbon emissions tax on building

These sliver towers are incredibly inefficient and even have fake mechanical spaces to make them even taller. We all pay the price in carbon.




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It's time to get serious about noise pollution

If you could see "aural litter" you would be shocked at how much of it there is.




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It's time to get serious about dealing with cars and trucks in the city

In Toronto and New York, Vision Zero is just talk. It's time for action.




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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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It's time to stop prioritizing cars over kids

How many crushings or deaths will it take for a school to realize that large moving vehicles and small kids on foot are not meant to mingle in the same confined space?




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Video: Orbiting the earth in real time

Spend 90 minutes in the eyes of an astronaut.




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Emissions From Hydropower in Brazil Grossly Underestimated

Emissions from tropical hydropower dams in Brazil are up to four times higher than often assumed, new research shows.




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Ontario might get a 400MW pumped storage station five times the height of Niagara Falls

While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).




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Kenya significantly increases fines and jail time for poachers

The approved measure ups fines from $480 to $120,000, and jail time from 2 years to 15 years.




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It’s time to treat illegal wildlife trade like a serious crime

A new report calls for international collaboration to fight the crime organizations behind the illegal trade in wood and wildlife.




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Breathtaking timelapse video shows the beating heart of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (video)

It was shot from "sea to summit" in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, one of the most dynamic landscapes on Earth.