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These basic black leggings are made from recycled water bottles

Your favorite clothing item just got even better. These new leggings from Girlfriend Collective tick all the boxes when it comes to eco-friendly and ethical production.




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BuildingGreen's 10 Top Green Products For 2012 Unveiled

I am a huge fan of BuildingGreen, but have not given a lot of coverage of their Green Product of the Year Awards. They are, to put it bluntly, not sexy, like watching Eoncote Ceramic paint dry. But I have been doing our readers a disservice, as I




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The envelope, please: BuildingGreen's top 10 green picks for 2014

It's the Oscars of green building products chosen by the experts, in the runup to Greenbuild.




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The envelope, please: BuildingGreen's top 10 green picks for 2016

It's a ritual; they pick the ten top products and I complain that they are not sexy. This year is different.




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Wake up. It's time for the BuildingGreen Top 10 Products for 2018

It's like watching paint dry.




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Honeybee waggle dance tells researchers about the health of the ecosystem (Video)

Honeybees survey vast tracts of land during their communal foraging. They share their best finds in a waggle dance, which new research has turned into a powerful tool for assessing ecosystem health.




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My love affair with herby, veggie-packed omelets

Forget smoothies. Omelets are the best way to sneak piles of greens into the morning meal.




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Photo: Foggy morning on The French

Our photo of the day pays homage to the first designated Canadian Heritage River.




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Biggest dam removal in European history has begun with the Vezins dam

Removal of the 118-foot-high dam in France will free the Sélune River, bringing wildlife back to the waterway and the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.




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Katerra opens the world's biggest factory making Cross-Laminated Timber

At Woodrise 2019, Katerra CEO Michael Marks wows the wood world.




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Can You Spot TreeHugger in this Google 'Search Story' About Solar Power in Michigan? (Video)

Don't Blink or You'll Miss It! Google has created a series of video ads called "Search Stories". They're basically short vignettes showing some cool projects that were made possible by people finding the right information (using Google, of course). The




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Sustainable Sole, Eggplant with Chili and Spring Onions and Heavy Turf

:: Make your soles sustainable with shoe shopping tips from Summer Rayne Oakes.




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Staggering e-waste numbers revealed in grim new report

Picture this: In 2016 the world generated enough e-waste to fill a line of 18-wheelers from New York to Bangkok and back.




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TreeHugger Radio #202: The Warmest Winter Ever, Arsenic in Your Chicken, Dying Dolphins, and Vermont Versus Monsanto

Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.




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Study describes chicken nuggets as edible "super glue"

Doctors from the University of Mississippi dissected two nuggets and were shocked by what they found.




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Food and building materials merge with Perdue's wood composite chicken nuggets

We have been saying for years that building materials should be healthy and high fiber like the food we eat, and now Perdue delivers.




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The biggest energy-saving regulation the U.S. has ever seen was released today

The new rule is expected to save Americans $167 billion in energy costs.




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Deforestation & Hurricanes May Have Triggered Haiti's Catastrophic 2010 Earthquake

Yet another reason why deforestation is bad: So much of Haiti's mountainsides have been eroded away because of deforestation and hurricanes that it may have stressed Earth's crust, triggering the earthquake that




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Science suggests path to hope for human intervention to minimize climate change

More importantly, it reminds scientists not to lose sight of the importance of human behavior in the search for answers about the physical processes of climate change




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TreeHugger Picks: Landfill Gas, From Trash to Alternative Energy

Landfill gas (LFG) isn't quite as sexy as some other alternative energy sources like wind or solar; still, TreeHugger thinks its an important part of our collective renewable energy portfolio. Plus, it's cool that landfills (and the stuff that fills




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This Swiss facility is sucking carbon dioxide out of the air for growing veggies (Video)

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.




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Biggest Bucky Fuller Fly Eye Dome being restored and moved to France

Robert Rubin saves " the last, monumental prototype that Bucky was working on when he died".




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Egg Maps and Green Routes Create Vegetable Tourism in the Incredible Edible Town Todmorden

Todmorden is a town that embraced the local food movement by growing their own fruit and veg anywhere in public spaces. They also have an Egg Map and a Green Route for the Vegetable Tourists!




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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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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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Climate change is a bigger threat than coronavirus, says UN Secretary General

Don't let a passing crisis, serious though it is, distract you from the real fight.




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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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TreeHugger Staff Meets in Atlanta, Gets Overtaken by Beards (Pics)

This week, the full-time TreeHugger crew met up in Atlanta to pow-wow over the blog we all know and love. We are serious subscribers to the working-from-home-is-green ethic, but about every 18 months or so, we get together to




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"Gasmaggedon" will make it even harder to electrify everything

It's why we have to reduce demand as well, with radical efficiency.




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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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What Role Do Carbon Offsets Play in a Struggling Economy? Q&A with the Carbon Neutral Company

Are carbon offsets still relevant in turbulent economic times, and how has the concept evolved? Join us for a live chat with the Carbon Neutral Company to find out.




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Join Author David Orr for a Live Discussion on TreeHugger, Today at 3pm Eastern

This month, BookHugger presents Hope Is and Imperative by David Orr. Readers can order a discounted copy today and then join a live chat with Orr on May 25 at 3pm Eastern. (NOTE: The chat has been postponed one day and will




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Join BookHugger in Reading <em>The Death and Life of Monterey Bay</em> and Get 30% Off Cover Price

This month, BookHugger presents The Death and Life of Monterey Bay by Stephen R. Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka. Readers can order a discounted copy today to get ready for the live chat with the authors on June 13 at 3pm




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Join Authors Stephen Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka for a Live Discussion on TreeHugger, Today at 3pm Eastern

This month, BookHugger presents The Death and Life of Monterey Bay by Stephen R. Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka. Readers can order a discounted copy today and then join a live chat with the




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'24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week' (book review)

Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain explains how going offline for a full day each week can change your brain, body, and soul.




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Contagion screenwriter talks Jude Law's anti-science blogger character (video)

Scott Z. Burns explains why the villain of his blockbuster film is an anti-science blogger, while the heroes are government officials.




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The world's rivers are clogged with pharmaceutical waste

Scientists say levels are dangerously high, affecting wildlife and ecosystems.




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Montreal to charge more for parking for bigger vehicles

But what is the best criterion?




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Note to Bloggers: Not Every Building with Corrugated Metal is Made of Shipping Containers

A blog confuses corrugated metal with containers on a project that could have been interesting for its own sake.




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Dinosaur 7x bigger than T-Rex discovered

Paleontologists in Argentina have uncovered a supermassive dinosaur




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Mobile Bay Alabama's First Line Of Oil Defense Is Bigger Boom On 2,000 Pound Anchors

A most painful demonstration of Murphy's Law - that




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TreeHugger hero Thomas Thwaites wins an Ig Nobel Prize for being a goat

And why not? It sounds like fun, just hanging around, eating grass




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Brazil's Natura Cosmetics may be the world's biggest B Corp -- but here's what they're not telling you

Despite Natura's seemingly excellent and forward-thinking business model, their list of ingredients is surprisingly awful and toxic, which calls into question the B Corp certification standards.




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Bring on the airline baggage fees!

I'm a fan of any policy that discourages people from schlepping loads of unnecessary stuff around the planet.




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Crowdfunding campaign raises $3m to save gorgeous fjord from logging

"It's just an amazing, amazing thing that people have done."




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Canada's biggest meat brand goes (a bit) vegetarian

It's not only Tyson that's looking to hedge its bets with vegetarian meat and dairy analogs.




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We have reached Peak Hygge

And stop with the wood fires and candles, they will kill you.




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How to have a 'hygge' winter

I am Canadian, not Danish, but I like to think I know how to 'hygge' properly.




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Tired of winter? Don't think Hygge thoughts, they are evil and unhealthy

Fireplaces! Candles! Clutter! What are these people thinking?




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Michelle Kaufmann Covers West Coast Green in a TreeHugger Exclusive

West Coast Green was this past week here in San Francisco, California. With speakers like Van Jones, Arianna Huffington and Michelle Kaufmann, the trade show was a nexus for greenies far and wide. Michelle Kaufmann was