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Multifunctional 172 sq. ft. live-work space uses nano-tech materials (Video)

This small and versatile apartment in the heart of Paris uses innovative modern materials for its furniture and cabinetry.




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Oil silo converted into glowing interactive civic space in Finland (Video)

Using a combination of LED lights, sunlight and environmental data, a disused oil silo has been transformed into Helsinki's newest art installation and urban destination.




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Witness the amazing hamster wheel standing desk, perfect for the office rat race

The wheels on the desk go round and round.




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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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Artifox's solid wood standing desk has a place for everything

This standing desk is packed with clever organization features, and can be customized for left or right-handed people.




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See Ecocide Writ Large: NASA Photo Shows Humungous Philippine Coal Mine From Space

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara




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Young Swedish Firm Designs Bike Palace for Philadelphia

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all




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Interface Studio Builds Modular Student Residence

Philadelphia architects Interface Studio are known to TreeHugger for their work with PostGreen and on the 100K house. They have also just completed a modular student residence at Temple University that really does demonstrate




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The Porch: Philadelphia Creates a New Public Space

A new public space in Philadelphia helps make the city more human-scale and increase quality of life for people who work or pass through the area.




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Should private charging stations be installed in public space? (Survey)

If you own an electric car but don't own a garage, what do you do?




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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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Should green homes have gas stoves and wood fireplaces?

One Passive House architect gives his clients what they want.




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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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Ben & Jerry's ice cream contains traces of controversial herbicide

Ice cream lovers aren't happy to learn they're licking glyphosate on hot summer days.




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Boxy building minimizes surface, maximizes air and stairs

Sweden shows how to build comfortable apartments for families, and stairs that people want to use.




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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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The view of Florence from space is a sobering thing

An astronaut-eye's view of Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station shows why everyone is kind of freaking out.




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Hurricane Michael as seen from space is an ominous thing (video)

See the view captured by the International Space Station as the category 4 hurricane makes landfall over Florida.




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Greenpeace tech product guide ranks Apple, Samsung low on repairability

A consumer product guide compiled along with iFixit shows which brands make it easy to fix our gadgets and which don't.




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Fiji Water Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Greenwashing

Fiji, probably the least favorite in an already disliked industry, is the target of a class action lawsuit alleging the company has profited from greenwashing. Specifically, from greenwashing claims that its products are




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Islamic Cycling, Space Tourism, Norway by Bike & Ski? Wend Magazine Has It All

Wend magazine continues to bring together intriguing stories about human powered adventures from around the world. In the current issue, they inform us that in 2010 officials in Isfahan,




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Greenpeace protests Shell's Arctic drilling with bear suits and break-in

Polar bears re-brand a Shell refinery in Denmark.




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Story of Stuff's Annie Leonard becomes executive director of Greenpeace USA

Best of luck to Ms. Leonard, I'm sure she'll do great things at Greenpeace USA!




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First there was the London Whale, and now there is the Greenpeace Whale, as the charity blows over US$ 5 million

The charity loses millions in rogue currency swap, just like the big boys.




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Greenpeace releases the Canned Tuna Shopping Guide for 2015

Learn which brands should be avoided and which are making a sincere effort to provide ocean-safe options, then vote with your wallet.




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How toxic is your new raincoat? Greenpeace can tell you

Greenpeace has taken some of the most popular outdoor gear to a lab in order to measure concentration of PFCs. What it found is disturbing.




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Greenpeace urges Hillary to dump fossil fuels

She's made big promises on solar. But will she also break up with fossil fuel lobbyists?




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Greenpeace tackles destructive tuna fishing in the Indian Ocean

Fish Aggregating Devices are a serious driver of overfishing, which is why Greenpeace is on a mission to dismantle all the FADs it can find.




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Greenpeace ranks best tuna brands for 2017

The annual Canned Tuna Ranking assesses fishing practices and social responsibility to determine which brands are sustainable and which should be avoided.




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Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics praises Apple, scolds Amazon

The organization scored the biggest gadget makers on their products' environmental records.




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Amid the Chaos of the SF Giants Parade, a Gardener Finds Peace (Photo)

The San Francisco Giants won the 2012 World Series, but this gardener doesn't seem to care.




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Let's stop calling the new headquarters for Apple, Facebook and Google "Green": Look at the parking ratios

You just have to look at the parking ratios to know they are environmental disaster areas.




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Is wearing a face mask the new normal for Californians?

Air quality in San Francisco is the worst in the world right now.




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Plant-derived food additive touted as replacement for overuse of antibiotics

Is this carrot-based animal feed additive something worth crowing about?




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The peaceful farm I stayed on in northern Illinois

I picked a lot of squash.




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10 Transformer Tables For a Tiny Urban Space: Help Pick The Best

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste -- on less money -- but with more design. He calls it LifeEdited. To find each ideal piece of furniture for his small Ne




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UpUp Play Tower is a standing desk, jungle gym and play space all rolled into one

Passive house designer creates a very active play house.




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Putting A Green Face On Facebook

Facebook makes reconnecting with your past almost scandalous. One friend leads you to 10 more in an exponential manner -- from college, your travels, high school, pre-school




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Carpool with Facebook

The new Facebook applications feature allows people to add all sorts of functions to the website. One interesting one that we've seen is the Carpooling add-on. Users can post their journeys, where they become searchable. People can then get in contact




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GoLoco Hits Facebook

With the social networking site Facebook recently opening up their platform to external applications, many organizations and companies are taking advantage of the social connection that Facebook thrives on. We previously covered attempts to use




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Facebook Unveils Massive 'Green' Datacenter Near Arctic Circle

Cooling servers requires a lot of energy, so why not locate them somewhere that is always cold?




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Facebook and Opower Launch Social Energy App

Ready to share kilowatts? Facebook launched its social energy app today that will enable users to share and compare their home energy consumption.




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Facebook Paid Instagram $1 Billion for Emotion. What's It Worth to the Environment?

Why did Facebook pay $1 billion for Instagram and what can the environmental movement learn from this? It's all about emotion.




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BBC Launches Facebook App "Meet Your Planet"

A new app from BBC allows you to explore content from their great nature documentaries.




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Facebook launches live data center efficiency dashboard

You can now view the energy and water efficiency performance of the company's North Carolina and Oregon data centers in real-time.




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Comedy video spoofs Facebook's Keystone XL support

With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg facing criticism for supporting Keystone XL pipeline, a comedy duo mocks Facebook "Mess" Everything Up Department.




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Facebook wants to use solar drones to bring internet access to the world

The company would use the Solara solar-powered drone, which can remain in flight for five years at a time!




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Facebook now lets you donate to charities with just a couple clicks

Non-profit organizations can now use the site to run fundraising campaigns and the simplicity could make a big impact.




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Facebook is 'parasitic,' says Zuckerberg's former mentor

From political manipulation to dangerous addiction, Roger NcNamee insists that Facebook needs to change its business model to be less harmful.




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Priest in Brazil Replaces Prayer With Tree-Planting

Planting trees may be a great way to help save the environment, but thanks to one Catholic diocese in Brazil, it's having a similar effect on parishioners' immortal souls. In an effort to bring a bit of green back