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After the big Northridge earthquake, a mysterious cloud appeared above LA – here's what it was

Calls came into emergency centers and even the Griffith Observatory from LA residents who described seeing a “giant silvery cloud.”




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Integrated "Shopping" Bag In Award-Winning Bicycle

Whenever my husband asks me to "pick up a couple of bottles of wine" while shopping, I get surly. My favorite bike panniers are, without exception, NOT well equipped to handle heavy, glass bottles that may shift in




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Recycled Play Structures Bring Joy to Schools in Rural India

Artist Shilpa Joglekar works with rural communities in India and Taiwan to create much-needed play structures out of natural and recycled materials.




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Clouded leopards declared extinct in Taiwan

After more than a decade of in the field study, there has been no evidence of the rare and majestic leopard.




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These clever concrete defense pods double as mangrove planters (Video)

This design is a hybrid of existing concrete sea defenses that can hold a mangrove seedling inside.




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International Bicycle Film Festival Comes Down Under

By some oversight we’ve missed the opportunity to alert readers to the International Bicycle Film Festival of 2007 until now. After it has already blitzed 13 cities worldwide, it finds itself skidding to a halt for a few weeks in Australia.




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Climate Care Heads Down Under

Australians may be world leaders in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but with their new government signing Kyoto as one of its first acts in power, it seems change may well be in the air. So, is Australia about to go green in a big way? UK-based




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Kylie Kwong Cooks Carbon Clean

Kylie Kwong is a well known Australian celebrity chef. What is probably less well known is her passion for the environment. A commitment well demonstrated via her Sydney chinese restaurant, Billy Kwong.




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eCycleway - Safe Urban Cycling or Dangerous Segregation?

It is an undisputed truth that the majority of American cities have incomplete bicycling infrastructures. This is perhaps especially true in Los Angeles, where




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Should mountain climbing be banned? (Poll)

People seem to do awfully stupid things when they get high.




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Is it time for the toilet to finally come out of the (water) closet?

With people living in smaller spaces and with better toilets, perhaps it is.




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Award Winning Enviro Laundry Saves the Climate

Ozone, is a substance that like CO2, seems not only to require international treaties, but it likes cleaning stuff. Apparently NASA discovered it works a treat as a disinfectant, killing bacteria and making stains soluble at low temperatures. The




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California Paves the Way for Lower-VOC Cleaning Products to Reduce Smog

Household cleaning products in the U.S. might soon be a little greener, thanks to a new rule in California that will require companies to reformulate products so they contain fewer volatile organic compounds, or




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Remember the hole in the ozone layer? We slowed that. We can slow climate change, too.

Ben Richmond at Motherboard highlights a climate change success story.




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Whitening Clouds To Stop Climate Change Might Actually Increase Warming

One of the more invasive geoengineering methods that's been proposed to avert global warming is spraying clouds with seawater to whiten them, reflecting solar radiation. New research presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting urges caution




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Climate News Recap: Climate Scientists Get A Legal Defense Fund; Warming to Both Help & Hurt UK; More

Plus, spewing sulfate into sky to stop warming won't fully work (redux); what Singapore's doing to make sure sea level rise doesn't swamp their city. Here's what caught our eye this morning.




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Artist Creates Cloud Making Machine to Test Geoengineering "Limits of Knowledge"

Inspired by geoengineering techniques, an artist creates a personal cloud-forming machine to make a point.




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Should we geoengineer the climate? We already are.

Geoengineering can be more than doing stuff to the environment. We could try leaving it alone.




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'This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate' (book review)

Naomi Klein's latest book is about more than just science. She explores the extractivist mentality and historic decisions that have led us to where we now find ourselves, living in a totally unsustainable way.




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Startup upcycles discarded chopsticks into new decor & furniture (Video)

Billions of chopsticks are thrown out each year worldwide. This Vancouver company is trying to turn some of of these into new items for the home.




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Small city apartment maximized with clever cabinets & folding furniture (Video)

A small apartment is made to feel larger with custom cabinetry and more.




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Asymmetrical shingle-clad laneway house is inspired by houseboat design

This modern laneway house is now home to a client who wants to look after her aging parents.




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Leaked UN climate report warns of dangerous global warming. Will the world listen?

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was expected to delivery its fifth Assessment Report (AR5) next month, but over the past weekend, a draft of that report was leaked to Reuters, which reported the early findings.




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Humans are warming atmosphere and climate change is irreversible unless we act now.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its fifth assessment report (AR5), which surely must be one of the most important science documents of all time.




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Ambitious plan to end forest loss announced at UN Climate Summit

A massive public-private partnership pledges over $1 billion to cut deforestation and mitigate climate change.




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U.S. and China pledge their commitments to fighting climate change at UN Summit in New York

Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called upon heads of state to make “bold” announcements at today’s Climate Summit.




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A quick and dirty glossary of climate negotiation jargon and abbreviations

Some of the most frequently used jargon you’ll want to know before the Paris climate change talks, accompanied by user-friendly definitions.




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Hundreds of thousands around the world join Global Climate March

Ahead of the U.N. climate negotiations in Paris, hundreds of marches were held around the world to call for strong climate action.




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195 nations agree to groundbreaking Paris climate deal

Today, the United Nations climate talks reached an agreement, and committed to fighting devastating levels of climate change.




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The UN has declared war on ocean plastic pollution

The Clean Seas campaign was launched last week, aimed at eliminating major sources of marine plastic and changing shopping habits.




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Outdoors Clothing Made in USA from Natural and Recycled Materials

The Greatest Outdoor Gear How do you make the greatest outdoor gear? We went to Empire Canvas Works' Kevin Kinney to find out. If the quality of Kevin's work is any indication, the recipe is clear. Start with a passion seeded by stitching together a




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Recycle Old Furs Into Bedding for Injured Animals

With a slew of fur-free celebrities and PETA's racy anti-fur campaigns, sporting a fur coat is controversial. For reasons that range from the philosophical to the stylistic, Planet Green notes, thousands of old fur coats are sitting




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Ad Claiming That it's Eco-Friendly to Wear Fur is Banned in UK

An ad by the European Fur Breeders' Association will not be allowed to run again after the advertising watchdog, ASA, ruled it to be misleading.




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Should all professional associations in the construction industries declare a climate emergency?

Architects, engineers, landscape architects and urban planners all have a role to play and should be acting now.




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Cycling commissioners in UK call painted bike lanes a waste of money

But alas, nobody seems to listen to cycling commissioners in the UK.




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A setback for CLT in the UK thanks to building code changes

After a tragic fire caused by plastics, the British building code banned wood in exterior walls. This is a step in the wrong direction.




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Appalachian Coal Set For Big Decline, Protests & High Profile Debates or Not

Regardless of the outcome of high profile public debate--viz Waterkeeper Bobby Kennedy Jr v. Dirty Coal Don Blankenship smackdown tomorrow night at the University of Charleston--or vehement protest from the likes of youth




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DIY Homes Using Recycled Pallet Wood - Appalachian Gothic Architecture (Video)

From a $50,000 portable recycled house to a tiny green egg house for Chinese students, TreeHugger has already offered plenty of posts that prove that green living doesn't have to mean high-end LEED certified luxury.




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Spring Back Now Recycles What Landfills & Other Recyclers Don't Want: Mattresses

Mattresses have plenty of reusable materials, but most recyclers don't want them. Landfills don't like them either. But a Tennessee nonprofit does.




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Corporations Wrote a Law Requiring Climate Denial be Taught in School. Tennessee Just Passed It.

Would you let corporations decide how climate science gets taught in your kids' classroom? That's what's happening in Tennessee.




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Tennessee Passes Law Allowing Creationism, Climate Denial to be Taught in Classroom

Woops.




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Clif Bar Rewards Twitter Users for Getting Outside

The organic snack bar company has created the first geo-location Twitter campaign to promote its trail mix bar.




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Planting trees could be a "mind-blowing" solution to climate change

It's an all-natural TreeHugger-approved carbon capture and storage plan.




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Alas, planting a trillion trees won't save the planet from climate change on its own

We still have to reduce our carbon emissions.




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Bicyclist takes photos on top of bashed cars and other fun places

Who doesn't love a picture of a bicyclist reading a book on top of a bashed up car?




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A pep talk for the climate movement

Paul Gilding has penned an optimistic and uplifting piece on the progress the climate movement has made and why he thinks we're on the verge of victory.




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In Sweden, they are burning H&M clothing instead of coal.

For some reason, they think that this is progress.




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Sweden opens road with slot-car style rail for electric vehicles (Video)

Now that's an infrastructure project!




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Micro-apartment has carousel closet under the bed

This once-derelict small apartment has been renovated on a budget into a more modern space.




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Eating less meat is crucial to climate fight, but politically tricky

A new report finds reducing meat consumption is as important as tackling transportation emissions, but the politics are daunting.