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'Give a Sh*T: Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet' (book review)

This handbook to sustainable living will help you practice what you preach.




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Going vegan? Use this 12-week daily planner

It contains all the nutritional info, recipes, and moral support you'll need for a big dietary transition.




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Revenge of the goldfish! Dumped pets growing into giant monsters

A gentle reminder to never, ever, Free Willy your goldfish.




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Psychology goes to the dogs

Just what is man's (or woman's) best friend thinking?




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Odin the dog protects his goats during Sonoma fire, takes in baby deer too

The stubborn hero refused to leave his goats ... miraculously, they all survived the firestorm.




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What happens when you flush a goldfish down the toilet?

Let this 14-inch goldfish caught in the Niagara River be your answer.




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My heart! Valentine's Day spending has gone bonkers

Those struck by Cupid's arrow are expected to spend $27.4 billion this year, up 32 percent from last year’s record $20.7 billion.




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When the Sun Goes Down, Eco Resorts Combine Luxury and Adventure (Slideshow)

In the last few years ecotourism has grown from a buzzword to a trend, to full-blown industry. Whether travelers are looking for a rugged adventure or refined luxury, planet-conscious operators have sprung up to satisfy




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Would Paul Watson Really Voluntarily Go to Costa Rica for Trial? And Collaborate on Ocean Conservation?

Has the Costa Rica Foreign Minister really just suggested that the Sea Shepherd founder might voluntarily go to Costa Rica to face trial?




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On Designboom: A gorgeous house built on stilts

One way to guarantee a view and to tread lightly is to build high in the sky.




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Artist's gorgeous glass & salvaged wood sculptures symbolize rebirth (Video)

Taking pieces of "dead" nature, this artist transmutes them into delightful, living works of glass and gold leaf.




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So you want to learn how to surf? Here’s where to go

I went to Costa Rica for surf camp at the world's most sustainable surf school – it was amazing.




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Trudeau government promises electric car subsidies, public transit support, wind and tidal power

Now if only he can keep his job in the fall election.




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Bank of England Governor: Companies that ignore climate crisis will go bankrupt

Are we about to have a "Minsky Moment"?




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US government calls off oil lease sales in Arctic

More good news for the Arctic as the Obama administration pushes off further offshore drilling in Alaska.




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Patagonia urges U.S. government to protect Arctic Refuge from oil drilling

The Gwich'in people have been fighting this battle for decades, and now they need broader public support. Learn how you can help.




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How to work from home and not go crazy

TreeHugger writers have a lot of experience with this.




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Provocative Global Warming Rug Creates a Stir in the Blogosphere

This little boy looks like he might be blogging over spilled milk, in fact he's concerned about the future of his environment. The Global Warming Rug by Mexican design cooperative NEL, featuring Emiliano Godoy, has created quite a




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For Green Design To Be Good Design, It Must Be Beautiful and Functional Today, Tomorrow--and Yesterday

Apple remains our culture's most lauded example of great design. But could it be that the company considered to have reached the pinnacle of design is, in fact, an impostor? The definition of good design is changing. It used




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Going to the office? Be Careful, It Is A Chemical Soup

Not much point in having a healthy house if you spend all day in an unhealthy office.




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Organic Goodies Make Perfect Green Thank-You Gift

Our mothers taught us (well, some of us) to send thank-you notes and to bring a gift when staying at someone's house or cottage as a guest. But what to bring? You don't know their taste, or you don't like their taste or you know that they don't need




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ShareNow, successor to Car2Go, pulls out of North America

So much for the "sharing economy". North Americans don't like sharing cars or parking spaces.




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Gas prices are going up. What will this do to light truck sales?

The only things that ever seems to affect SUV and pickup sales are the economy and the price of gas.




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New York's Governor Cuomo considers helmet mandates for car drivers

He wants data? We've got data. And if it saves just one life.....




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Yes, that's Pope Francis aka Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the subway

It remains to be seen how green (or not) new Pope Francis aka Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be, but this photo of him riding the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina, certainly makes a good ad for public transportation.




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Tar Sands Spill in Alberta: "This Is Not Natural -- It's Got Nothing to Do With Nature"

Government officials have no idea how to clean up these spills from a process that oil companies claim is more "environmentally friendly."




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In "Canada's Texas": after 44 years, Alberta's Conservative government falls, "Socialist" NDP wins majority

This is a truly seismic change, and may mean some big changes in the oil sands and pipeline debates.




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Good bones are a good place to start for net zero carbon MacKimmie Complex in Calgary

Ethics and environmental consciousness drove this project by DIALOG at the University of Calgary.




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Johnson & Johnson's half-hearted switch from plastic to paper cotton buds isn't good enough

It's only happening in half the world. The rest of us can keep using plastic sticks. (Don't they know about ocean currents?)




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Solar roadways destroys crowdfunding goal, raises $1.5m

TreeHugger just keeps on having to eat its hat with these guys.




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Your lover's scent is as good as melatonin for sleep

Researchers find that even just sleeping with a shirt that one's romantic partner has worn leads to improved slumber.




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BP Goes For Extra Hurricane Point: 22 Mile Long Plume Moving Toward Alabama

British Petroleum has created a 22 mile long undersea oil plume, measured as "dispersed" beneath the ocean's surface, stretching from the wellhead, toward Mobile Alabama. Via the Chron: "The thick plume was detected




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Mississippi Governor Barbour Opposes Widespread Beach Berm Building In Louisiana

"People are visible Wednesday, June 6, 2007, on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., where a section of the $4 million protective sand berm was washed away by higher-than-usual tides over the weekend. An intact section of the berm can be seen in the




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Black Friday may be dying, but Buy Nothing Day is still going strong

This year, it has a stronger environmental theme.




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And the top prize in the UK wood award goes to a fishing hut

There was a big pile of beautiful lumber to choose from too.




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Governor General's Medals for Architecture in Canada unveiled

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly




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TreeHugger hero Thomas Thwaites wins an Ig Nobel Prize for being a goat

And why not? It sounds like fun, just hanging around, eating grass




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Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to scientists studying circadian rhythms

Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve.




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RIBA Stirling prize goes to Passivhaus social housing project

The most prestigious prize in British architecture is given to the solidly green project rather than the flash in the pan.




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Gorgeous Brittany House Built By Hand of Straw, Wood and Earth

In 2009, architects Franck Deboute and Karine Montagnon decided to build their dream home and office. The site: the Pointe du Raz, hanging out over the Atlantic Ocean, in Brittany, France. The




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Gorgeous Tree House Built Without Cutting a Single Branch (Photos)

When the team at nature-minded Spanish architecture firm Urbanarbolismo decided to build a tree house, they set some high standards. Working with a centuries old oak tree, they wanted to create a place for




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"There Goes the Neighborhood." Two Ways to Deal with Foreclosed Homes

While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.




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Mashed roasted sweet potatoes are the way to go

This may be the perfect way to serve sweet potatoes; it's easy, delicious, and beautiful to behold.




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How we got "locked in" to fossil fuel consumption

More on why our personal consumption habits matter in the climate emergency.




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Life's not a beach, especially when the sand all goes to concrete

Sand mining is described as "the global environmental crisis you’ve probably never heard of." Another good reason to use wood instead of concrete.




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When government goes dark, who can we turn to for light?

Can these 200 people save the world?




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World Energy Day is a good day to talk about methane

It is time we stopped cooking and heating with methane, a climate problem from source to stovetop.




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Here's a good analogy for the carbon budget problem

Imagine a bucket of greenhouse gases that's almost full.




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Sign up for the 2020 Good Food Challenge

Switch to a planet-friendly diet this year, and show others how it can be done.




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Crowdfunding campaign raises $3m to save gorgeous fjord from logging

"It's just an amazing, amazing thing that people have done."