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Bumble bees could vanish forever within a few decades

The most important pollinators on the planet are disappearing in areas where temperatures are getting hotter.




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Solving global dietary problems is a bigger challenge than climate change, scientist says

The director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre says it's a huge problem that meat is so "culturally embedded in Western societies."




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Decarbonization must treble to keep up with climate change

Progress is being made. But the climate keeps unravelling.




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Toxic Algae Bloom in Lake Erie Worst in Decades

Blooming Lake Erie. Photo Credit: NASA EO Pure Michigan is a slogan used in the Great Lakes State, to bring in tourists and celebrate the beauty of nature. You probably won't be seeing these images in any Pure Michigan ad campaign. They're of algae,




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Invasive? Bloody Red Shrimp Are Supper for Great Lakes Fish

Bloody red shrimp are invasive, but yummy for some native Great Lakes fish. A first-time find by Canadian researchers.




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The mystery of Blood Falls finally solved

The source of Antarctica's eerie blood red falls has baffled scientists for more than a century; now new secrets have been revealed.




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Coke's UK head of sustainability says we don't have a packaging problem, we have a waste and litter problem

This is the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" defense.




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Biodegradable plastic is bad for the environment, British MPs say

It's time we stopped greenwashing plastic alternatives and realized they do more harm than good.




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Thicker bags don't solve the plastics problem

"Bags for life," as they're called, do not get reused nearly as much as retailers would like to believe.




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Plastic waste is a problem, but wasting what the plastic is wrapping is many times worse

Judith Thornton questions the conventional wisdom about plastic packaging. She has a controversial point.




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Ramblers Way Creates Sustainable Luxury Casual Wear for Fall 2011

Organic wool comfort wear company Ramblers Way founded by Tom and Kate Chappell, of Tom's of Maine fame has come a long way since their first collection, comprised of natural blonde wool jersey knits




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GO Homes are predesigned, prefabricated, Passivhaus and possibly perfect

GO Logic have always designed beautiful homes. This was the next Go Logical step.




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Wild blueberry growers face tough times on the East Coast

Competition, oversupply, and unpredictable weather has caused the price of wild berries in Maine to hit a 30-year low.




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Most Huggable: A Vegan Passover, Exotic EcoCities, Little House On The Freeway + More

Is it possible to keep Kosher and still keep a vegan diet?




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Doubletree Hotels and Arbor Day Foundation Kick Off "Tree Tag"

Doubletree Hotels with the Arbor Day Foundation kicked




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10 of the world’s most remarkable trees

From oldest to tallest to most sacred and more, we present a brief who's-who of arboreal heros.




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U.S. consumers are baffled by how to shop more sustainably

A study shows that many want to make better decisions, but don't know how.




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10 alternatives to the soul-suck of shopping on Black Friday

Ways to spend the day for those who'd like to skip the whole 'bloodsport of mass consumerism' thing.




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The uncomfortable truth about free shipping

It's not as 'free' as you think. Someone always pays.




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Adaptable kitchen-in-a-box is for cooking-challenged millennials

This compact all-in-one cooking kit is looking to overhaul the traditional kitchen for today's hectic schedules and non-traditional living situations.




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Tweetable, Interactive Algae Farm is Energy-Generating "Cyber-Garden" (Photos)

This fascinating installation where algae, bioluminescent bacteria, humans and smartphones interact may chart where a new generation of urban "cyber-gardeners" may go.




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Durable Danish seaweed furniture can be reused as fertilizer

Surprisingly strong and made with seaweed and a bit of paper, this collection of modern furniture and lighting makes use of an abundant resource.




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This startup turns deadly algae blooms into plastic alternatives

Bloom hoovers up harmful algae overgrowth from waterways and turns it into a flexible foam that can replace some petroleum-based products.




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4 ways in which Istanbul is wonderfully sustainable

A mix of cultural practices and smart infrastructure investments has created a city that's a true pleasure to visit.




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This could be your new favorite winter vegetable

Once you start buying fennel, you won't be able to stop.




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Most Huggable: Football Mangroves in Florida, Bristol's Renewable Street Lights, Frank Capra's "Truth"

To carbon neutralize the Super Bowl, the NFL plants mangroves in Florida




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Best Renewables Project in the West - "Where's the Competition?" Ask Winners...

The UK-based renewable energy company Ecotricity recently won an award from the renewable energy agency for South West England for its development of three giant wind turbines at the industrial Avonmouth Docks site on the outskirts of Bristol (which we




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The Office: Flexible, Green Office Space for All

Life can be hard for start-up companies, particularly in the current economic climate. Often the need to keep costs down means that decent office space becomes unaffordable. It can be even harder for a small company to implement a green office policy if




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Walkscore Rates the Most Walkable Cities In America. Is It A Useful Metric?

Yesterday I wrote about a mom who was convicted of vehicular homicide after her son was killed by a drunk hit-and-run, because she crossed the street from a bus stop without walking almost half a mile to the traffic light. Today Walkscore has released




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Biodegradable Toothbrush Gives a Smile to the Needy

Bogobrush is socially-minded, biodegradable toothbrush that gives back to the community.




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Atlanta sets goal of 100% renewable energy by 2035

It is the first big city in the South to commit to being fully renewable energy powered.




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From Parentables: Bisphenol A Found In Canned Soup Marketed To Kids

A new study from the Breast Cancer Fund shows that BPA is found in canned foods marketed specifically to kids. This should be no surprise to TreeHugger readers; we have been talking about BPA lining cans for years. All




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If BPA is so terrible, why is everybody still drinking beer and pop out of BPA lined cans?

There is a fundamental logical inconsistency here. Either the stuff is bad for you or it isn't.




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CO2 making the deserts bloom

What is CO2 fertilization effect and how is it changing our planet?




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Can we make steel without CO2 emissions using renewable hydrogen?

Yes, in theory. Doing it in practice is a whole other story. This is another example of how the hydrogen economy is a fantasy.




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Another problem with fracking: Increased sexually transmitted infections?

If a massive water footprint, air pollution, contaminated drinking water, earthquakes, and general environmental degradation weren't bad enough...r




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Photo: Black-bellied whistling ducks peer from the pier

Our photo of the day comes from the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas.




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Zero Waste blogger Lauren Singer lets us look into her drawers and cabinets

We visit the writer behind the Zero Waste blog TrashIsForTossers.com.




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Marlow Goods offers farm-to-table purses

These designer bags from Brooklyn are made with local leather.




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Lovewild Designs crafts beautiful confetti and stationery that blooms

A sustainably-minded designer makes cards and paper coins that you can plant.




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Brooklyn's new community micro-grid will allow for peer-to-peer renewable energy sharing

Solar panels, distributed energy, resilient microgrids, and blockchain. Oh my!




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Blob Architect Jan Kaplicky 1937-2009

Architects are often late bloomers. Frank Gehry is in his prime at 79; Ralph Rapson died at his drafting board last year at 93.




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Another Problem with Carbon Credits: They Get Stolen

At least $40 million worth of carbon credits have been stolen in recent weeks from various registries across Europe, in what some are calling a growing black market for carbon credits.The Wall Street Journal explains that there are




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Hanging Mini-Greenhouse Also Doubles As Pendant Lamp

Short on space for growing herbs? Well, this graceful pendant lamp -- which doubles as a mini-greenhouse -- could be one way to add more luscious greenery to one's space and diet.




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Beautiful Black Teahouse In Czech Republic Uses Traditional Japanese Finishing Technique

Charred wood never looked so good.




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Small House In Czech Republic Recycled From Ruins of Barn

The architects call it a "Conceptual Object" but it is pretty and real.




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First wolf in a century spotted in the Czech Republic

These apex predators play a much bigger role in ecosystems than most people suspect, and their absence causes all kinds of problems that we aren't always able to solve.




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Blushing pink 635 sq. ft. micro-home cleverly uses ramps, not stairs

Embedded in a hillside, this eccentric dwelling uses a series of functional ramps that connect all the spaces together.




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Interview with Tom Miller, CEO of Blu Skye Sustainability Consultants

As the CEO of sustainable consulting firm Blu Skye Sustainability Consultants, Tom Miller oversees teams and strategies that are changing the way the world makes things--from the design stage and production




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Another Major Blow for Carbon Capture, This Time It Involves the "C" Word

Mongstad industrial area at night. Photo Tøssekaien via flickr. The Norwegians have been big supporters of carbon capture and storage, and the government helped get the public to go along with building of a gas-fired plant near an existing oil refinery