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Luminous Fish Bikes Light Up Sydney Festival

A trio of awesome fish bikes made a rousing debut at this arts festival in Australia.




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What are the world's most livable cities? Depends how you measure it.

The Economist puts Melbourne in number 1 spot, Vancouver in 3. They're not.




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Industrial warehouse converted into open workplace with no private offices

An old warehouse is transformed into a three-level open office with lots of shared spaces for a tech company in Vancouver.




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Submit Your Best Green Tweets for Carnival of the Green

We here at TreeHugger recently announced that the Carnival of the Green will now include a Twitter section.You can still submit as normal via email, of course, but this new part of the Carnival will be called "Best Green Tweets." So, if you use Twitter




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Kids Discover Nature Hosts Carnival of the Green

This week is Carnival of the Green #188 and it's being hosted by Kids Discover Nature, the place to find great outdoor activities for your children. No matter where you live, you can help your little ones learn about and experience nature by following




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Submit Your Best Green Tweets for Carnival of the Green

We here at TreeHugger recently announced that the Carnival of the Green will now include a Twitter section.You can still submit as normal via email, of course, but this new part of the Carnival will be called "Best Green Tweets." So, if you use Twitter




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The EcoChic Hosts Carnival of the Green

This week is Carnival of the Green #193 and it's being hosted by The EcoChic, a blog that takes us through the life of a thirty-something mom. She looks for ways to reduce her environmental impact on the Earth while sharing these ideas, products and




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Submit Your Best Green Tweets for Carnival of the Green

We here at TreeHugger recently announced that the Carnival of the Green will now include a Twitter section.You can still submit as normal via email, of course, but this new part of the Carnival will be called "Best Green Tweets." So, if you use Twitter




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Submit Your Best Green Tweets for Carnival of the Green

We here at TreeHugger recently announced that the Carnival of the Green will now include a Twitter section.You can still submit as normal via email, of course, but this new part of the Carnival will be called "Best Green Tweets." So, if you use Twitter




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Gaiam Hosts Carnival of the Green

This week is Carnival of the Green #196 and it's being hosted by Gaiam's blog, Stream of Consciousness, which is under Gaim's umbrella site called Gaiam Life. This "guide to a better living" highlights green living in addition to personal growth,




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ooffoo Hosts Carnival of the Green

This week is Carnival of the Green #201 and it's being hosted by ooffoo, where you can reuse, recycle, swap, sell, giveaway, write and even blog - all in one site! Not to mention their recipes, eco-tips, and debates!




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Pragmatic Environmentalism Hosts Carnival of the Green

This week marks Carnival of the Green #205, and it's being hosted by Pragmatic Environmentalism, a blog that explores urban sustainability. Thanks so much to Brenda Pike, who runs the site, for a last minute Carnival round-up. Through her blog, Brenda




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Daily Mitzvah Hosts Carnival of the Green

This week marks Carnival of the Green #206, and it's being hosted by Daily Mitzvah, a blog hosted by Jen X. Jen is a teacher, historian, radio aficionado, and endlessly curious about all things uplifting, quirky, and off the main highway.




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The NRDC's "OnEarth" Hosts Carnival of the Green

Happy New Year! This week marks Carnival of the Green #208, and the first Carnival of 2010. Congratuations to all who have submitted entries and hosted over the years to make it such a success!




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Go Greener Australia Hosts Carnival of the Green

Today marks Carnival of the Green #209, and it's the second Carnival of this week - a special dose! Congratulations to all who have submitted entries and hosted over the years to make it such a success!




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Nissan's Mark Perry on the Arrival of the Leaf (Podcast)

Amid a media flurry starring a displaced polar bear and an easy-breathing Lance Armstrong, Nissan has become the unlikely leader as it delivers a mass-produced, affordable electric car. The Leaf is now arriving in the driveways of eager customers, and




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Adapting to Climate Change: Salt-Tolerant Biofuel Crops Could Turn Saline Soil Back Into Cultivable Land

As salinization impacts agriculture around the world—another effect of climate change that will hit already-vulnerable places and people the hardest—farmers, small-scale farmers in particular, have to figure out how to




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Artist's captivating kinetic sculptures take inspiration from nature

These delicately formed hand-crank and motor-activated art installations blossom and grow perpetually.




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London's Embassies Celebrate Their Countries' Design as Part of London's Design Festival

London's international embassies are showing off their countries' design as part of the London Design Festival.




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First in South America: Uruguay to Test Cultivation of Industrial Hemp

Great news for TreeHuggers in South America: Uruguay could become the first country in the region to authorize the cultivation of industrial hemp, according to El Pais newspaper. The national Ministry of Cattle,




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Man converts van into off-grid, all-terrain, submersible survival vehicle (Video)

This wilderness explorer transformed this van into a mobile, solar-powered home that has all the amenities.




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Solar-activated canopy creates interactive environment that responds to light (Video)

This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.




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Hundreds of divers gather for underwater music festival (video)

The unusual concert was held in the depths of the Florida Reef to promote coral reef protection.




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Festival-goers are asked to stop abandoning tents

Contrary to what many people believe, they're not going to charity – just straight to landfill.




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8 Stylish Lights for Your Home at London Design Festival

Light up your life and your living room with gorgeous lights from the London Design Festival.




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Should private charging stations be installed in public space? (Survey)

If you own an electric car but don't own a garage, what do you do?




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Will Private Reserves be the Future of Conservation in South America?

Three new private preserves have opened in Peru to buffer existing national parks. Is this the sign of a new trend?




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An International Music Festival in a Kenyan Slum Seeks to Protect Indigenous Tribes

An international music festival in the slums of Nairobi is unusual enough. But one that plans to stop a dam and save an indigenous way of life? Let's party.




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Bianca Jagger, George Monbiot + Vandana Shiva Attend Be The Change

The 2007 Be The Change Conference is fast approaching and has an amazing line up of speakers to inspire you with the theme "The Sky's the Limit". For the fourth year in a row the BTC conference brings together world leaders in sustainability and social




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EvanEco goes to the Carnival, Monbiot on Biochar, Accidental Eco Maniac Highlights Women + Water, and More

EvanEco: Carnival of the Green 172 by Don Bosch "Got milk? Grab a glass of the white stuff and a chocolate chip cookie, and join me for some green bloggy goodness..."Guardian Ethical Living: Ethical Superstore and Natural Collection merge into giant




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Citing threat to human survival, doctors divest from fossil fuels

Climate change is already killing people around the world. Now the British Medical Association has vowed to do something about it.




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Canada's first tiny house festival debuts as part of planned tiny housing development

We visited Canada's first tiny house festival to find out more about this newly declared eco-residential development in Quebec for homes under 1,000 square feet in size.




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Ideal Bite Goes To Sleep, Urban Evolutions Hangs with Nike, SustainaBee Goes to the Carnival, and More

Ideal Bite: Are you getting very, very sleepy? by Heather Stephenson "You will be if you follow this tip. Conventional anti-insomnia pills work, but if you don't wanna lose sleep over side effects and potentially addictive ingredients, induce




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8 Green Music Festivals That Rock

Image Credit: Getty ImagesFestivals are not a modern day invention. The roots of the celebratory gathering go as far back as the Egyptians, who used to toast the annual overflow of the Nile, which irrigated crops. Whether it be religion (the most common




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Need More Motivation? Get Chased by Zombies in Undead Adventure Road Race

What started in Maryland is spreading. A running club with zombies that chase you. It's about survival of the fittest.




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How Refugees are Cultivating a Garden and Growing Community

A community garden in Atlanta proviudes refugees from around the Globe a space to grow food, share their culture and to build community as a result.




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George Monbiot calls for private sufficiency, public luxury

He makes the case that it is better to have magnificent public parks than big private backyards.




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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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Buenos Aires is doing a fantastic job of transforming itself into a more livable city!

Showing other cities around the world how it's done.




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Survival Skills Are Still Sustainable, Even If You'll Never Need Them

A beautiful film celebrates doing things, like starting a fire entirely by hand, that are no longer necessary. There are lessons for us all.




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WSJ: Natural gas leaking, venting and flaring equivalent to driving 79 million miles

Evidently natural gas has a clean image that is being threatened by reality.




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Conservation group to buy largest private sequoia forest in the world

The 530-acre forest has hundreds of ancient giant sequoia, including the fifth-largest tree known on the planet.




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Restoring nature is climate equivalent of stopping burning oil

One-third of emissions reductions needed for 2 degree target could be achieved with better land management.




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Gogoro launches the VIVA, a lighter, cheaper, electric scooter with a swappable battery

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.




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7 bright lights shine at the London Design Festival

Stylish and innovative lighting is everywhere at the Design Festival this year.




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7 highlights of the London Design Festival

It's not a competition but... here are some of the loveliest things at the London Design Festival




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Adivasi Body: Delicious on Skin, Nose and Globe

The bath and body goodies hail from my hometown in Connecticut, handmade in small batches making it a pretty local treat for anyone in the NYC metro-area.




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Should performers be flying to distant music festivals?

The director of Celtic Connections questions the ethics of bringing in foreign artists to perform.




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Artists' salvaged tire installations reactivate Barcelona's streets

These simple but intriguing urban art sculptures made out of repurposed tires bring a new sense of place to some of Barcelona's neglected streets.




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Which message best motivates change: IPCC or the Nobel Prize?

William Nordhaus und Paul Romer