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Video showdown: Vote for the best in the United Nations Environment Programme’s competition

Send one of these video bloggers to cover World Environment Day.




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21-year-old activist wins World Environment Day video competition

The United Nations Environment Programme and goodwill ambassador Don Cheadle have selected a winner. See the video here.




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World Environment Day launches logo design competition

Design a logo for this year’s World Environment Day and win a trip to Milan, Italy.




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Enter the World Environment Day blogging competition and win a trip to Milan

In anticipation of World Environment Day on June 5, the United Nations Environment Programme is hosting a blogging competition to raise awareness about this year’s theme of sustainable consumption.




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Is Sunlight Unfairly Competing With Fossil Fuels?

We can and should go back and forth about the merits, demerits, risks and potential rewards of the spectrum of geoengineering techniques, from the simple but slow and effective (like afforestation) to the well, more fraught with potential catastrophic




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Peter Busby designs a 40 storey timber tower proposed for Vancouver

There are just a few small problems standing in the way.




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Interview with Leila Conners Petersen: co-director of The 11th Hour

I had the chance to meet Leila Conners Petersen, the co-founder and president of Tree Media Group. Leila, along with Nadia Conners, co-directed the soon-to-be-released documentary The 11th Hour which is narrated Leonardo DiCaprio. The 11th Hour




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Board game introduces pathways to a competitive bioeconomy using hemp & bamboo

This Monopoly alternative is designed to act as a walkthrough of the concepts of a new economically and ecologically viable "Industrial Evolution" based on a renewable bioeconomy.




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Petit Beast: Hanging air plant sculptures look like graceful jellyfish

Combining low-maintenance air plants with reused sea urchin shells, these unique creations look very much like mysterious jellyfish.




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Petite Marin repurposes men's dress shirts into beautiful and durable children's clothes

This new California-based company is run by two entrepreneurial moms who understand the value of local production, quality fabrics, and reducing one's environmental impact.




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Mounties call 'anti-petroleum movement' a security threat to Canada

Most people think of them as environmentalists, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have other ideas.




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Slow Biking is actually a competitive sport

In the Netherlands it is actually a thing, to ride your bike as slowly as possible without falling over.




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10 barbecue foods dangerous for pets

From ribs and onions to chips and corn, these barbecue-friendly foods can be unfriendly to dogs and cats.




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Happy Petrov Day! (How we narrowly avoided nuclear war on this day in 1983)

Most of us alive today owe a debt to those who avoided nuclear war in years past, and sadly, there were many occasions when that was necessary.




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Prestigious Prix Pictet Photography Competition Winner is Luc Delahaye

It's the most prestigious photography prize (and best paid) and here's this year's winner.




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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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PETA to Buy Sea World

No we're not kidding. The San Diego Union Tribune reported this morning that as Anheuser-Busch, owner of SeaWorld, is about to be gobbled up by Belgian brewer InBev, they are looking to rid themselves of their theme parks and




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When Will Solar Be Cost Competitive in Your Town? Interactive Map Helps Visualize Grid Parity

Solar grid parity will vary from city to city. A new interactive map helps show how it will spread.




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Cars and People Compete for Grain

At a time when excessive pressures on the earth's land and water resources are of growing concern, there is a massive new demand emerging for cropland to produce fuel for cars--one that threatens world food




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Prix Pictet International Environmental Photography Competition Short List Announced 2012

This competition for the best environmental photography never fails to be interesting and professional.




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French Town Rolls Out Massive 1,400-Foot-Long Carpet Made of Grass (Video)

Artists installed a grass carpet through a French town to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its arts and nature trail programs.




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UK's National Grid supports 2030 petrol/diesel car ban

The electricity grid can handle a ban, ten years earlier than law makers are aiming for.




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Peterborough canoe museum to have gorgeous green roof

Irish architects Heneghan Peng win the competition to house world's largest canoe collection




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There's nothing wrong with repetitive cooking

Much of the world eats the same thing every day. Why are we so preoccupied with variety?




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Teenager invents way to videochat with your pet, give it treats

The device uses a tablet or smartphone to connect you with your pet during the day, give it treats and make sure it's not tearing up the furniture.




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Beautiful Time-Scale Transit Maps by Peter Dunn

I know there are lots of transit map fans out there. It's a modern art-form for sure! Take a look at these original time-scaled maps.




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Streetfilms and a sock puppet ride the 14th Street Busway

Where have I seen this movie before?




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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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U.S. is trying to boost British appetite for chlorinated chicken

The problem is, it's not just about the presence of chlorine, but rather why the chlorine is needed in the first place.




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Design competition for a New York Aquarium makes a splash

But I am in the tank for the one that came in second




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Eco-shed wins the Shed of the Year competition

It's only the second time that the treehugger types get the big prize




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Some like it hut: bubbles and boxes from the Winnipeg Warming Hut competition

As always, they warm your hearts as well as your toes.




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SkyCity Challenge: a design competition to figure out how to use the world's tallest prefab

There are 17 atriums that need to be filled with creative uses.




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It's voting time in the Shed of the Year competition

We have a look at the eco-sheds




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International Tiny House competition results are....interesting

Not coming soon from a modular company near you.




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The 2018 Evolo Competition entries are wonders of drawing talent and imagination

It always amazes, how much work people do for this.




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The judges get it right with the 2019 Evolo Skyscraper Competition

Lots of great ideas for green building in this year's crop.




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Join Author Peter Gleick for a Discussion of Our Obsession With Bottled Water

Author Peter Gleick joins TreeHugger for a live chat about the story behind bottled water and what it means for our culture and environment.




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Naked Value. 6 Things Every Business Leader Needs to Know About Resources, Innovation & Competition (Book Review)

A must-read book for business leaders. Naked value is the ultimate value a product delivers to customers, or the benefits that remain when a product is stripped of most of the energy and material resources required to manufacture and deliver it.




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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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Paw Pods offer a dignified biodegradable burial option for pets

Our pets become like family to us during their lives, so why not treat them with the dignity that a family member deserves when they die?




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Are chickens the new popular pet?

Cuddly, gentle, and low maintenance, there's a lot to love about these feathery fowl.




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Multigenerational 453 sq. ft. apartment is home to couple, mother & two pets

A couple, their parrot, plus one mother-in-law and her cat have their own private and communal spaces in this renovated apartment in Hong Kong.




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Earth Weave Craft Carpets of Wool and Hemp

I wasn't sure if we’d covered Earth Weave’s wool and hemp carpets, but I was wrong. Years ago, Kara had mentioned them in a nice little primer on Finding Solutions to Toxic Carpeting. What makes Earth Weave noteworthy is that they claim their Bio-Floor




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At IIDEX: Shaw Exoworx Cradle-to-Cradle Carpet

"We are working on the design of communities and begin with what we call the Essay of Clues. We look at things like the sun, the wind, the water, the biological history and the culture of the site. Then we imagine that we are birds that evolved for that




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London Design Festival 2010: Julika Welge's Growing & Repairable Felt Carpet

Here is an interesting idea for a rug made of pieces of felt. We stumbled upon Julika Welge's Growing Carpet at this year's Designersblock at the London Design Festival, where the bright colours and the rich texture first




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New Formula for Carpeting Eliminates Latex, Makes It Biodegradable

Carpeting may be something we give little thought to, but the ubiquitous floor covering is actually a serious environmental problem. Not only are toxic chemicals often used in the making of most carpeting, they are




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Tread Carpet by Martín Azúa, a Rug with a Small Footprint and a lot of Spanish Tradition

Martín Azúa's latest rug design is made from esparto soles from the traditional spanish espadrilles. It will be used in Camper's shoe stores.




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Carpet remnants recycled into unique Tessellated Floorscapes (Video)

A Brooklyn-based design studio turns to digital animation to generate the patterns for these striking rugs made out of recycled carpet pieces.




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America's carpet industry needs cleaning up

A report from GAIA reveals how old carpets go straight to landfill or get burned because many manufacturers haven't developed closed-loop production.