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Watch 50,000 Honeybees Being Removed from Los Angeles Home (Video)

What happens when you find bees have made your home into their hive? You call Mike 'The Bee Guy' and document it their removal.




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Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving (Slideshow)

A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many




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Wind Turbines May Blow Earth Out of Orbit, Coal Lobby Warns: The Onion (Video)

This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have




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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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Heroic cow escapes trip to slaughterhouse, hides in Dutch forest for weeks

And in the meantime, the bodacious bovine has become a social media star and will receive a full pardon … as soon as they can get her out of the woods.




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Teacher's modern tiny house has hidden storage staircase (Video)

This contemporary tiny house from the Netherlands incorporates lots of great layout and storage ideas.




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Floating Recycled Park modules are made out of reclaimed plastic trash (Video)

Plastic waste has been diverted from the city's shoreline to create a cost-effective, green space alternative.




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Aluminum Lume travel trailer sports retractable roof for stargazing (Video)

This stylish and durable trailer looks like a cross between a mini-Airstream and a horse trailer, and has a kitchen in the back.




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Artist's zoetrope animates the miraculous metamorphosis of the butterfly (Video)

Inspired by her own spine-shattering accident, this sculpture shows the struggle and transformation of these remarkable insects.




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'Weed dating' & trash picking: The new tourist guide to Amsterdam

The city hopes to combat overtourism by getting visitors off the beaten track and doing more useful things.




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Mobile solar 'sail' powers Shigeru Ban's spherical auditorium in Paris (Video)

Looking like a "great ship," this solar-powered music venue is a new gateway into the city.




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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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Man's unique handmade instrument emits mind-blowing sounds (Video)

Made with simple materials, this extraordinary instrument creates experimental acoustic sounds that sound eerie yet beautiful.




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Rap Guide to Wilderness celebrates wild nature and the ways it enriches our lives

The man who brought us the Rap Guide to Evolution is back to entertain, educate, and inspire us with a thought-provoking album that captures the spirit of conservation.




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Animated music video illustrates 'You are what you eat'

Formidable Vegetable Sound System strikes again, this time with their 'ecological electroswing' celebration of soil.




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Hundreds of divers gather for underwater music festival (video)

The unusual concert was held in the depths of the Florida Reef to promote coral reef protection.




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This pianist plays classical music to soothe blind elephants (Video)

Music is a comforting thing, especially for these rescued elephants living in an animal sanctuary.




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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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Super axe uses leverage to make woodcutting a piece of cake (Video)

This specially designed Finnish axe requires less force to split wood as it acts both as a wedge and as a lever.




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Tiny Philippine Island is Center of a Crazy-But-True Natural Wonder (Slideshow)

This tiny verdant island, called Vulcan Point or sometimes Vulcan Island, lies at the center of a strange-but-entirely-true natural wonder. It's known for being the world's largest volcanic island that's on a lake, on a




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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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$1 fire extinguisher fits in a pocket, can be life saving (video)

The best ideas aren't always the most expensive ones.




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Walgreens Plans 130 Solar-powered Stores Nationwide

With research showing the installed cost of solar dropping 11% in just 6 months, it's little wonder that corporations like Wal-Mart are ramping up their plans to go solar aggressively. Walgreens made headline back in 2006 for its commitment to solar,




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A Christian Perspective on Organic Dairy Farming and Positive Child Labor (Video)

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether




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The Week in Animals News: Mass Animal Escape, Sweaters for Penguins, and More (Slideshow)

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.




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Artist & engineer team up to create paints made out of environmental toxins (Video)

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.




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Clover tiny house comes with its own large 'social area' (Video)

No half-done couch here; there's a big place to sit and socialize.




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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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Expanding and Redefining The Idea Of Home

Nic Darling is part of Postgreen Homes, builder of the 100K house and others that I have raved about; Postgreen is a different kind of developer, working in gritty urban parts of Philadelphia, doing smaller, more affordable




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Biking Through Amish Country for Climate Ride

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).




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Philadelphia's solar-powered trash cans: Great green idea or flawed design?

Are solar-powered trash cans a fuel-saving, money-saving way to keep the streets clean? Or are they worse than regular trash cans?




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Bike sharing comes to Philadelphia, finally! 60 stations with 600 bikes (video)

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.




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Why is Philadelphia such a bike success story despite having few bike lanes? (video)

Philly has more than 2X the number of bike commuters per capita of NYC.




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Nomadic home prototype built out of a shipping container (Video)

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.




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Co-working offices are built out of shipping containers inside old bakery

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.




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Inside the completed McEwan School of Architecture in Sudbury

It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."




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Everywhere you look, the urban-rural divide is changing politics and stopping climate action

Populist leaders are more interested in cutting the price of gas than they are in stopping climate change.




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Peru's Oil Exploration Violates UN Guidelines on Uncontacted Tribes

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.




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Innovative Foot-Powered Washing Machine Could Alleviate Poverty for Millions (Video)

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.




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Billboard transforms air into clean water in Peru (Video)

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.




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Remarkable hotel hosts guests in clear capsules suspended 400 ft. on mountain (Video)

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.




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Top 12 pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.




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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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Pesticide Fipronil in egg scandal shocks Europeans

Our food chain can so easily be disrupted, as this example of eggs contaminated with a pesticide not approved to be anywhere near a chicken proves




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Mothers’ pesticide levels linked to autism in their children

A new study provides the first biomarker-based evidence that maternal exposure to insecticides is associated with autism among their offspring.




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Scientists call for ban on pesticides that harm children's brains

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.




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An organic diet rapidly reduces pesticide exposure

When four American families switched to all-organic diets for a week, the results were dramatic.




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Top 12 pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables

And the top 15 that are least toxic.




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EU, Brazil and China have banned way more harmful pesticides than the USA

For example, 72 pesticides approved for use in the United States are banned or in the process of being phased out in the EU.




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Lions, leopards and lynxes love boxes too (video)

Just like your pet, these big cats can't resist the lure of an open cardboard cube.