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Petite Mort: Precious ethical furs handmade from roadkill

Millions of animals are accidentally killed on US roads every year. Here's how one company is turning these sad statistics into something useful, beautiful and respectful.




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Wunder Capital offers 6% return for solar investors

A new platform aims to remove the barriers between would-be investors and solar developers, increasing the adoption of renewables in the process.




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How to create an ethical wardrobe for less money

Ethical fashion brands tend to be very expensive, but there are ways to make the transition without spending a pile of money.




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Ethical consumers are perceived as odd, boring, unattractive, and not stylish

An amusing new study delves into the social consequences of one person witnessing another person doing the 'ethical thing' -- and why it makes them uncomfortable.




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These basic black leggings are made from recycled water bottles

Your favorite clothing item just got even better. These new leggings from Girlfriend Collective tick all the boxes when it comes to eco-friendly and ethical production.




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An entire country just divested from fossil fuels

This is beginning to get real.




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Coal divestment reaches Japan

Nippon Life Insurance will become first major Japanese institutional investor to ditch coal.




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Makers' markets are where you should do all your holiday shopping

Put your money directly into the hands that made the gift you're buying.




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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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MakeMeSustainable: The Green Alternative to Social Networking

What with social networking sites like Facebook all the rage right now and more attention than ever being focused on the issues of global warming and climate change, the moment certainly seems propitious for the unveiling of MakeMeSustainable, a




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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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Audubon Releases Birding the Net, the Opposite of Angry Birds

Tweet tweet. Collect enough virtual birds and you could make it to the Galapagos.




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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Energy

Who are the best ambassadors for clean energy, energy industry innovators, activists, and more? Vote here.




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Best of Green: Energy

Whlle TreeHugger has covered energy issues since its founding, Energy as a Best of Green category is new for 2012. Find out the best energy project, energy ambassador, activist group, and more.




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Will killing horses in the US reduce their suffering?

Writing in Bloomberg, Marc Champion has a thought-provoking, but controversial take on horse meat, noting that the ban of horse slaughterhouses in the US has increased suffering for the animals. Is that a case for killing them here?




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Buildup to Greenbuild: How Green Is Toronto?

Last year before Greenbuild in Chicago, one of America's best architecture critics, Blair Kamin, wrote the introduction to Chicago for GreenSource Magazine. So I was pretty nervous when I was asked to write this year's introduction to Toronto; That is




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No More Buildups To Greenbuild; It's Here

The buildup is over; Greenbuild has opened in Toronto. I will be heading out to tweet and report from the Convention Centre for the next three days, and round up my buildup posts herein.




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BuildingGreen's 10 Top Green Products For 2012 Unveiled

I am a huge fan of BuildingGreen, but have not given a lot of coverage of their Green Product of the Year Awards. They are, to put it bluntly, not sexy, like watching Eoncote Ceramic paint dry. But I have been doing our readers a disservice, as I




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Best of Show, Booth Design at Greenbuild: Kohler And Living Machine

The point of having a booth at Greenbuild is to attract attention, and like with everything else, design matters. I immediately fell in love with the Kohler booth; In some ways it is so 2005 green, with its recycled materials




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The Best of Greenbuild 2011: Innovative Green Building Products of the Future

What can one say about a show that attracts 23,000 green building professionals across the border to Toronto? It could only beGreenbuild, the grand spectacle put on by theU.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). This was its tenth




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LEED-Bashing: USA Today Series Says It's Too Easy To Be Green (and a Whole Lot More)

The rating system is attacked in 2012 for its 2002 standard and the timing couldn't be worse.




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CREE Brings Wood and Concrete Hybrid Construction To North America

The Austrian system can build at 30 storey high-rise in thirty days




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Rick Fedrizzi Defends LEED, Attacks The Naysayers and Delivers Barn-Burner Defense of Green Building

The CEO of the USGBC brings it on and fights back against the Plastic People their poodles in Congress




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Method Homes Introduces New Paradigm Prefab Prototype at GreenBuild

It's going for every label from LEED to Living Building Challenge




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The envelope, please: BuildingGreen's top 10 green picks for 2014

It's the Oscars of green building products chosen by the experts, in the runup to Greenbuild.




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New LEED standards mean healthier, greener buildings on the way

LEED v4 is here.




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Amazing glass that tints on demand is now solar powered

This glass makes your window treatments obsolete.




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Pedia-Pod aims to "make kids feel like they're not in a hospital"

This pediatric care unit showcases how sustainable and kid-friendly design can come together.




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Best in Show: The Nexus eWater recycler saves water and energy

Waste water and waste heat recovery together at last, perhaps the most interesting new thing at Greenbuild.




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Touring the LivingHomes green modular for Make it Right at Greenbuild

It's the right thing to do in so many ways, as LivingHome, Make it Right, Cradle to Cradle and Hanley Wood build a comfy new home for the Lower Ninth




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Greenbuild roundup: Heroes, villains and vinyl

All kinds of interesting people were at Greenbuild.




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The envelope, please: BuildingGreen's top 10 green picks for 2016

It's a ritual; they pick the ten top products and I complain that they are not sexy. This year is different.




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People, things and the Best of Show at Greenbuild

There were inspiring people and some neat new things at Greenbuild, and my biggest ever Best of Show.




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Wake up. It's time for the BuildingGreen Top 10 Products for 2018

It's like watching paint dry.




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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




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Copper Mine Threatens Ancient Afghan Monastery

A decade ago, the Taliban's destruction of two 1,500-year-old Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley drew worldwide attention to Afghanistan's rich archaeological




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Solar Panels, Reforestation Project in Works for Armenia's First Green Pilgrimage Site

The Echmiadzin Cathedral complex in Armenia is one of 12 spiritual destinations that are becoming more sustainable.




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Christians Aren't Behind America's Climate Problem, But They May Be the Solution

Religious communities may be wide open to fighting climate change, new evidence reveals.




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We Are Sacred As The Earth: An Interview With Earth Activist Starhawk

"I believe that the earth is calling to us and that we are here to serve the planet as a whole by our ability to appreciate, to give gratitude and praise, to become ecstatic with wonder for the earth."




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Is Anti-Science Environmentalism a Real Problem?

We often criticize climate denialists for being anti-science, and yet many environmentalists reject science that clashes with their own worldview.




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Interfaith Preach In On Climate Change Will Pressure Obama To Act

Religious communities across the country will gather to reflect on the moral implications of climate change and our imperative to act. One man, in particular, should pay heed.




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Pope Benedict quits; Was advocate of a cleaner, greener lifestyle

When Copenhagen failed in 2010, he denounced the failure.




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Church of England to fight "great demon" climate change, mulls divestment from fossil fuels

Inspired by massive flooding in the UK, the Church of England is renewing its commitment to fighting climate change. And that's sending a signal to the markets.




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Witches are hexing Brett Kavanaugh

Witches are holding events to publically curse the guy.




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Saudi Prince building solar powered city with robots, glowing sand and an artificial moon

Will NEOM be "an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization" or "a totalitarian surveillance state"?




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Reconnecting with nature has environmental and mental health benefits

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee at The Guardian writes about the deeper human issue at risk in our ongoing environmental crises - a disconnection from the ecosystem.




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Meet the Plastisphere: Ocean plastic pollution is so bad, it is now its own ecosystem.

Scientists have named a new marine ecological community, the Plastisphere, comprised of, you guessed it, plastic -- and all the organisms that now call ocean plastic home.




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13 Most bizarre mushrooms

These specimens of the fungi world are both beautiful and strange.




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Efforts underway in one of most extensive US river restorations ever

The world's largest dam removal project is nearing completion on Elwha River on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula. Now it's time to enter the next phase of work on one of the greatest salmon rivers in the nation: the restoration of an entire watershed.




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Honeybee waggle dance tells researchers about the health of the ecosystem (Video)

Honeybees survey vast tracts of land during their communal foraging. They share their best finds in a waggle dance, which new research has turned into a powerful tool for assessing ecosystem health.