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British Airways job cuts: the knives are out

Ruthless British Airways bosses are set to cut thousands of jobs at the airline, using the pretext of the pandemic to undermine workers’ wages and conditions. The labour movement must fight for nationalisation and workers’ control.




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All-Natural Margarita on Cinco de Mayo

Although Cinco de Mayo celebrations are muted in Mexico this year with the H1N1 virus outbreak and dramatic loss of tourism, if you're still planning a party, please toast our friends south of the border with a natural




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Food for Thought: Do The Health Care Views of Whole Food's CEO Keep You Away?

I went to Whole Foods in Oakland on Saturday, like I do most weekends, but I missed the dance/theater/protest against the grocery chain's co-founder and CEO John Mackey, he of the now infamous quote: "A careful reading of both the Declaration of




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News from Mother Jones: Help Haiti, Whole Foods' Ungreen Ways, Gross Tap Water

Yesterday, TreeHugger rounded up a few green charities that are helping the recovery effort in Haiti after Tuesday's earthquake. MoJo's human rights reporter Mac McClelland has a few more suggestions for how to help one of the poorest and least




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Whole Foods, Bed Bath & Beyond Say No Way to Alberta Tar Sands

Guest blogger Cara




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TreeHugger Radio #201: A Greener iCloud, Obama on Gas, Talking Plants, and Doomsday Dating

This week, Jacob and Brian talk about a greener Apple Inc., crazy-ass weather, Obama's oil and gas issues, and a dating site for the doomsday crowd.




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Safeway, Whole Foods Get Greenpeace Green Rating For Seafood Sales

For the first time ever Greenpeace has given a US seafood retailer (in fact two of them) a green rating. There are some notable laggards though.




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Say cheese! French fromage may lead to healthy hearts

Have researchers found the secret behind the 'French paradox'?




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5 ways to build community with food

Cooking for others and eating together bring people together like nothing else.




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How an 'Untouchable Day' can boost your productivity

Where distractions are weeded out, focus can take root.




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7 ways to welcome winter wildlife into your yard

Little things, like leaving brush piles and unraked leaves, can provide shelter to animals in a harsh season.




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10 ways to fight the winter blues

You have to create your own warmth and sunshine during these long dark months.




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Yak wool is the new hot trend in base layers

Made from wool that yaks shed naturally each spring, these base layers are even warmer than merino.




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Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Leaves a Legacy

Lahood presided over "the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized."




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Jacques Tati's film Playtime was released 50 years ago, but has lessons for us today

We are still befuddled by technology but bumble along.




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This May Day, get outside and celebrate spring.

It doesn't have to be all about politics.




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Happy 100th birthday, Paul Rudolph

The American architect has been on TreeHugger many times.




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Happy 210th Birthday, Charles Darwin!

And God bless the one-third of Americans who actually believe in natural selection.




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UK just went 2+ days without burning any coal

The fall of coal has been swift in Britain, and there's no sign of it ever coming back.




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Caltech's Energy Retrofit: From Fuel Cells to a Daylighting Celeostat

On Caltech's campus, student engineers and scientists are busy in labs day and night working on hairy solar panels, termite




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PG&E Customers Can Say No to Smart Meters, But at a Price

California state regulators voted that PG&E customers can opt-out of smart meter installations, but they'll have to pay a fine and a monthly fee.




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Citing disruptive solar competition, Barclays downgrades utilities

Environmentalists aren't the only ones considering divestment anymore.




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Automated electricity bill payments cause people to consume more energy

A new study says it's a case of out of sight, out of mind, but it has serious consequences.




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Say it with Butterflies - Green Start-Up Grows Monarch Butterflies for Events, Therapy & Conservation

Here is an interesting buisness idea; grow butterflies to let fly at special ocasions and at the same time help the enviornment as well as people with special needs. The project is called Mariposeando (Spanish for something




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10 Ways to Spice up Your Knickers With Sustainable Lingerie

With Valentine's Day around the corner, now's the time to invest in thongs, sweet babydoll sets, ruffled knickers, and more -- in sustainable materials from organic cotton to soy.




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4 Ways to Avoid the Hidden Evils of Valentine’s Day

From child labor to blood diamonds, showing your love can have some seriously unexpected pitfalls.




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Architectural Valentines: Love means never having to say you’re Saarinen

They are all over the internet today; here are some that relate to buildings we have shown on TreeHugger




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14 ways to go green this Valentine's day

A list of ways to share the love with everyone you adore without hating on the environment.




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Valentine’s Day by the numbers, are you sitting down?

The holiday once marked by amorous missives and hand-plucked posies has evolved into a day of staggering statistics.




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Have a sweet Valentine’s Day – without the stuff

In this installment of Town and Country, we talk about skipping consumerism on Valentine’s Day.




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6 beauty recipes that are pink and red for Valentine's Day

Get in the Valentine’s Day mood with these fun DIY beauty recipes for masks, moisturizers, and scrubs – all of which are suitably pink or red for the occasion!




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How to celebrate a green Valentine's Day

The size of one's carbon footprint is not usually a major concern on this romantic holiday, but it can be mitigated with advance planning.




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Don't rush out to buy a last-minute Valentine's Day gift

It's important to remember that every physical gift comes at a cost that's both financial and environmental.




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Valentine's Day is losing its allure with young adults

Is Cupid's appeal fading as millennials find the holiday has become too commercialized?




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Wretched Excess: Private yachts are so yesterday, now it's private floating islands.

But, we ask, are they green and sustainable?




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Holy Crap! Toilet-Paper Wedding Dress Displays Unparalleled Dedication

Major, major kudos to Ann Kagawa Lee of Honolulu, Hawaii, winner of Cheap Chic Wedding's annual toilet-paper wedding dress contest, who made this mind-boggling matrimonial ensemble out of bathroom tissue—a textile fit




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How to make your wedding day green

A wedding is one of the most important days in a couple's life. If you care about the planet, why not integrate your principles into your big day?




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6 ways to keep it simple on your wedding day

If you keep it simple, then the wedding will be more fun and relaxed for everyone involved, not to mention kinder to the environment.




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4 ways to have a more eco-friendly wedding

A few strategic decisions can greatly reduce the environmental impact of your Big Day.




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UNEP & TreeHugger Launch Blogging Contest for World Environment Day

Once again, we're proud to partner with the United Nations Environment Programme to help fight food waste and bring attention to World Environment Day.




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Vote now for World Environment Day Blogging Contest!

Did you know that 50% of food produced is wasted? It is true, but thankfully, the United Nations Environment Program and TreeHugger are helping shine a light on this problem with our fourth annual World Environment Day Blogging Competition.




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Winner announced in World Environment Day blogging contest

Charles Immanuel Akhimien, a Nigerian doctor and writer, will report from WED host country Mongolia.




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U.S. Food Waste Challenge honors World Environment Day

In keeping with this year's theme, the USDA and EPA are launching a challenge to reduce food waste at each step from farm to fork.




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Fighting food waste around the globe in honor of World Environment Day

A round-up of stories addressing the global problem of food waste.




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Mongolia hosts World Environment Day to highlight sustainable future

I was fortunate enough to attend the official start of World Environment Day in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Here's why their vision for a sustainable future is so important.




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United Nations Environment Programme announces the 2014 theme of World Environment Day

Vote today for your favorite slogan!




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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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Ian Somerhalder named Goodwill Ambassador for World Environment Day 2014

The actor known for The Vampire Diaries and Lost joined today's World Environment Day celebrations in Barbados.




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World Environment Day highlights Barbados’ sustainability programs

The host country of the United Nations World Environment day is working to protect its natural resources and adapt to climate change.




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World Environment Day 2015 to promote sustainable lifestyles

The UN Environment Program takes aim at unsustainable consumption in 2015.