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Grateful Dog is Sacramento's First Green Dog Day Care

The name may give you visions of dogs mellowed out, but the Grateful Dog wants to make sure your dog is both happy and healthy throughout their entire stay. You can leave your dog for the day or the week, knowing that




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Cannabis in your car doors, but not to smuggle it

One more use for the versatile plant that is starting to get some traction in the US...




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Bubble cars are back with the electric Microlino

The tiny Italian car is now available in Europe.




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Coclico’s gorgeous shoes come with carbon offsets

These designer shoes embody traditional craftsmanship and a Slow Fashion aesthetic.




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Will Alberta's tar sands create a Canadian "cancer alley"? Study finds high levels of carcinogens in air.

A new study has found that the air pollution from Alberta's massive tar sands operations is putting the health of downwind residents at risk by releasing unsafe levels of carcinogenic and toxic chemicals into the air.




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Eco Touch: Waterless Carwash

Eco Touch is providing an old product to a new market. While waterless car washing products have been available for over a decade, demand for them in America has been slight. While similar products have taken off in areas with strict water regulations




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Whatever happened to "Peak Car"?

It seems to be following the same path as Peak Oil, and happy days are here again.




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Sooner than you think? A prediction that electric cars will cause the next oil crisis

It actually won't take that much to reduce oil demand enough to cause serious trouble.




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Tesla rumors: 2 electric cars to be unveiled in March? Electric pickup truck coming in 2018?

It would be a good way to further broaden the appeal of electric vehicles.




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Delightful forest creatures are carved out of avocado seeds

The humble avocado pit has been rescued from the compost bin of obscurity and remade into these magical little sculptures.




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Everything you need to know about natural skin care

It turns out beauty is more than skin deep, but make sure you're taking good care of that beauty because chemicals are all over the skin care industry




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Just ending pollution from car exhaust could add three weeks to your life

Switching from fossil fuel powered cars could save 45,000 lives per year and on its own almost solve climate change




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Finland's plan to make cars in cities 'pointless'

OK, maybe the Finns know something we don't - they are trying to pair smart phones, Big Data, and public and shared tranport to break free of private car-dependent cities.




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Park a house in a parking spot instead of a car

Or, for that matter, park both a house and a car like Bill Dunster's ZEDpod.




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What To Do With Discarded Christmas Trees? A Habitat For Fish And For People

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic




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Groundhog EV Day: Ohio car dealers want to prevent Tesla from selling in the state

It's déjà vu all over again, with the old guard trying to stop the newcomers...




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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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Driver in car hits 14 year old with right of way in crosswalk, and all they care about is the iPhone

It's almost like there is a concerted campaign to turn distracted walking into a serious problem.




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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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Wing Bikes is selling an e-bike that costs less than a New York Metrocard

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.




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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 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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Province of Ontario introduces new penalties for careless drivers causing death

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.




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Ontario Conservative politicians running from carbon taxes

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario




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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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Ontario's Doug Ford's proposed natural gas expansion is like putting 42,560 cars on the road

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.




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Why all is lost: increasing demand for jet fuel will be bigger than savings from electric cars

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.




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As emissions spike, VW announces an end to oil-powered cars

The timeline needs some work. But this is a start...




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A sea of plastic trash hovers near Caribbean island

These photos reveal the horror of our disposable, consumerist culture and how it's ruining the most beautiful places on Earth.




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Nanogenerator could charge your phone from the vibration of your moving car

Just keeping your phone in your car's console during a drive could charge the battery with this novel tiny generator.




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Make a shake flashlight out of a cardboard tube

This quick project makes a useful emergency flashlight while recycling your leftover cardboard.




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How Carbon Offsets Can Help Provide Clean Water for All

A UK offset company launches a world-first partnership to finance Life-Straw water purifiers in Africa.




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Man charges a LEAF electric car using an Hawaiian volcano! (video)

It's not quite as dramatic as it sounds. It's simply a good demonstration of the power of regenerative braking!




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New York e-bike law bans carrying kids

This is, in fact, one of the things that e-bikes are really good at. Another dumb move.




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George Monbiot: "We Need 100% Cut in Carbon Emissions"

George Monbiot, everyone's favourite controversial climate commentator, launched the Be The Change conference with a bang here in London yesterday. He leaped off the starting blocks with the statement that not only is it imperative that we reduce Co2




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EvanEco goes to the Carnival, Monbiot on Biochar, Accidental Eco Maniac Highlights Women + Water, and More

EvanEco: Carnival of the Green 172 by Don Bosch "Got milk? Grab a glass of the white stuff and a chocolate chip cookie, and join me for some green bloggy goodness..."Guardian Ethical Living: Ethical Superstore and Natural Collection merge into giant




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Monbiot: We’re on the verge of carmageddon

Actually, we have been down this road before...




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Do electric cars generate as much particulate pollution as gas and diesel powered cars?

No they don't. Whether or not you buy into this study, the fact remains that cars are cars are cars.




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Monbiot: We have to phase cars out within ten years

"Let’s abandon this disastrous experiment."




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Low-Tech Magazine switches to a low-tech, low carbon website

Blogging like it's 1999 might make sense for a lot of people.




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Whatever happened to Jimmy Carter's solar panels: The sequel

Instead of an exciting adventure, we got a road not taken.




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Spanish lawmakers aim for 90% carbon cuts by 2050

By 2030, 70% of the country's electricity could come from renewables.




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Turn your car into your office with a Skype-equipped BMW

This truly is just what we needed.




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Swedish Fair Fashion, Hold the Macaroni

In addition to its social conscience, Sweden is also extremely fashion conscious, and recent media debate plus campaigns by local group Rena Kläder (Clean Clothing) have brought ideas about ethical fashion to the forefront. Right on cue, in Sweden's




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In Copenhagen Bicycles Overtake Cars

As a result of half a century of planning, Copenhagen has achieved a fabulous cycling goal - during the morning rush hour more bikes and mopeds pound the inner city streets than personal cars and buses. Just a bit more than a third of inhabitants get




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Sweden's Green Car Explosion

At this week's Clean Vehicles and Fuels conference in Stockholm, city officials released an updated survey showing that 50 percent of city residents would consider shopping for a "miljöbil" when they buy their next car. That's a huge increase from




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Would you send your child to daycare in the forest?

With daycare costs rising, perhaps ditching the building is not such a crazy idea.




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I grew up in a house that looked like a 'hygge' postcard. It was a lot of work.

For those of us who actually live in rustic homes in cold climates, the household items that define the 'hygge' decorating trend are a matter of survival.




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Make little museums part of your next car trip

There are everywhere, they are fun, and there is so much to learn from them.




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Credit card-sized unit claims to be world's smallest solar charger

Sunslice is a small folding solar charger that can fit into a pocket, while still producing enough electricity to compete with much larger offerings.