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Toyota i-Road 3-wheeler launching in French carsharing & smart city scheme

I love this little vehicle. If it ever becomes commercially available outside of carsharing schemes, I may have to get one. Or maybe I should just start a carsharing scheme in my city....




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Toyota's Thermo-Tect Lime Green paint saves energy and lives. Why isn't every car this color?

It's ugly, but it sure can keep that car from cooking, and it is going to be seen from a long distance.




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How to drink green juice and still be “green”

Green juices and smoothies aren’t necessarily the other kind of green—the eco-friendly kind.




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UnTreeHugger: Nellie's Dryer Balls

We've been seeing Nellie's dryer balls and their various knockoffs throwing around their purportedly eco-friendly clout everywhere lately, even on green shopping sites and environmental blogs we know and love. (We even tried to correct these misguided




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Terrific Green Tool: Precautionary List From Perkins+Will

Architects usually keep their proprietary research locked up and closely held. Perkins + Will has done the opposite and made it a public service. Launched at Greenbuild the Precautionary List is a compilation of available data on chemicals and




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Big Mistake: Hiring "Greenpeace Co-Founder" Patrick Moore To Peddle Vinyl Windows

They look so cute on their polyurethane sofa, in front of the wall of vinyl windows and doors, in the stock shot from the Canadian vinyl industry. The Vinyl salesmen are also




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Never leave the office when you have Steven M. Johnson's Office Sleeper

Work/life balance is over-rated anyway.




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It's not womens' metabolism that keeps them cool in the office; it's the men in suits.

And Steven M. Johnson has the answer to the problem.




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Steven M. Johnson's take on the wearable sleeping bag

Of course he has been there, done that.




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3 Ways Leather Tanneries are Greening Up Their Processes

Solar farm atop a PrimeAsia Leather Corp. leather tannery in Vietnam. Courtesy photo via WWD. Tanning is an intense chemical process which transforms decomposable rawhide into leather, but not without discharging serious pollution into water; Around




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Stunning Vietnamese Townhouse Is Only Ten Feet Wide

The terracotta tile walls give it a warmth and character, and it seems much larger than it is.




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"House for trees" built in Ho Chi Minh City

Designboom shows Trong Nghia's latest house, built out of towers with trees on top in the middle of a block.




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500 incredibly rare monkeys found deep in Vietnam forest

Prior to the discovery, fewer than 1,000 grey-shanked doucs were known to exist, making them one of the 25 most endangered primates on the planet.




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Second Forest House is an elevated treehouse with a lighter impact

Built with a lighter impact in mind, this small mountain retreat is nestled among the trees in Vietnam.




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Keep on Trucking: How the Food Truck Concept is Spreading To Other Uses

It's hard to tell if this is a good thing or not, but mixing new tech with old trucks is changing business.




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Keep on Trucking: More Ideas Going Mobile, From DNA Testing to 3D Printing

The future is mobile as businesses dematerialize and hit the road




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At Free Geek, Computer Repair Paves the Path to Jobs

Free Geek is a non-profit reuse organization. Its mission: provide access to computers, the internet, education, and job skills to the local community.




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Other voices on Marissa Mayer's "Back to the office" order for Yahoo! employees

Is she trying to "put together a 21st Century technology company using 19th Century workplace mentalities"? Or is this a smart move?




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TreeHugger is looking for interns

We're looking for treehuggers with a nose for a story.




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No need for sushi chefs to toil on the long weekend, robots will do it

Sushi is everywhere these days, and robots will soon be everywhere making it.




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Me to We Tees Promote International Development

There are lots of eco-tees out there today, we'll admit it. The tees designed by Me to We clothing have improved on the design of most eco-tees in that they fit better because they are cut longer and larger than your standard




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Pakistani Soldier Plants 20,101 Trees in One Day! Sets New World Record

Let that sink in for a second: Over a period of 18 hours and 40 minutes on September 29th, Muhammed Yousuf Jamil, a Lance Naik (Lance Corporal) in the Pakistani Army singlehandedly




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Spiders Fleeing Floods Build Mosquito Buffet in Trees

When heavy rains caused rivers to overflow and flood parts of Pakistan last year, it set into motion a surprisingly complex chain of events that scientists are only now beginning to understand -- and which may have




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Pakistani Villagers Set World Record For Tree-Hugging

In a recent show of solidarity with the forests and one another, more than a thousand villagers gathered to simultaneously give their beloved trees a loving squeeze.




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Photo: Triumphant monarch feeds on the ironweed

Our photo of the day comes from northern Illinois.




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7 Cities with Great Green Projects Others Should Imitate

Cities can be hot-spots of pollution, with thousands or millions of people, cars, pets, industries, and more contributing to global warming. But they can also be centers of innovation, as bright ideas, available funding, and




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Show your love for renewable energy — it's #iheartrenewables week

Do you think we need to shift to solar, wind, and geothermal energy? Then show some love this week in order to help grow this important societal transition.




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New Zealand to be coal-free by 2018, 90% renewable by 2025

Compared to New Zealand, we all have work to do.




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The Week in Animal News: Miracle Pando Poo Tea, Another Rhino Species Officially Extinct, and More

Can panda poo prevent cancer? We also have sad rhino news, fish lawnmowers, and more.




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Fair Trade Chocolate, Tea, Spice and Coffee Sales Jump 75 Percent, Study Says

Chocolate, tea and more goodies partner with Fair Trade USA which expands farming programs and experiences record sales.




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Whatever happened to: coffee pods?

These pods of evil have taken over North America, bringing tons of waste with them.




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Caffeine confessions: coffee, tea or…both?

Whether it's coffee or tea, Katherine and Margaret love their steaming mugs of deliciousness.




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8 ways to spice up your morning coffee or tea

Take an average cup of coffee or tea to a new tasty level with these quick, easy additions.




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Coffee leaf tea is the hottest new beverage

Not only is coffee leaf tea delicious and nutritious, but it also offers a more stable source of income for coffee growers in Latin America.




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Coffee versus tea: It's the ultimate hot drink face-off

What's it going to be? Check out this fun infographic to learn amusing and interesting facts about both popular beverages.




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Infographic explains why coffee and tea are so good for us

These popular hot beverages inhabit places of honor in our homes, apparently for very good reasons.




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This man has shared 35,000 free cups of tea out of a converted bus (Video)

Promoting the gift economy and community resiliency, this man has been traveling the country for the last decade, offering free cups of tea out of his bus home.




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Airy chapel held up by tree-like fractal structure in Japan

This chapel looks to nature and the generations-old tradition of Japanese wood joinery for inspiration.




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California Court Overturns Order to Destroy GMO Beets

It seems that GMOs are again steamrolling their way through our legal system. Back in December it seemed there may be a light at the end of the tunnel when a federal judge ordered that 258 acres of genetically modified sugar




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False Advertising Word of the Week: Artisan

Artisan is the new natural in terms of false advertising.




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From toilet to table: Peecycling research at U of M investigates urine as fertilizer

Could human urine be used on a commercial scale to fertilize the food we eat?




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Garage by Graypants is gorgeous and green

Known to TreeHugger for their trademark lamps, the Seattle practice does a bigger building




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Artist and hundreds of volunteers recreate huge old-growth tree in sculpture (Video)

A large section of a 140-year-old Western hemlock tree is faithfully reconstructed by hand from cast molds, using tiny pieces of reclaimed cedar that have been carefully glued together.




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TreeHugger is off to the Passive House Northwest Conference in Seattle

These are interesting times for the Passive House movement in America, and this should be a very interesting conference.




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CLT House by Susan Jones shows the future of sustainable, green and healthy housing

And it is beautiful too.




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Perkins + Will's Seattle office is designed to be toxin-free

Which really, is how every building and office should be designed.




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This annual party uses a giant pumpkin for a beer keg

There's no 'turning into a pumpkin at midnight' because the pumpkin is where it's at!




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Sustainable Wheel Replacements

Not many details on this one, so I'm not sure if it's a genuine modification, a weird advertising campaign or even an art installation. Anything’s possible. I like to think though, that it's a Hungarian motorist who places sustainability as a higher




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TreeHugger Radio: Claiming the Arctic Floor, Sled Dogs on Thin Ice, and the Price of Carbon Cuts

This week is all about climate change and its myriad ripple effects. Melting Arctic ice has opened up an international controversy over deep-sea land rights, and Russia will now make a bold move by planting its flag 14,000 feet below the surface. New




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Green Baby Steps For The Future Of The Earth

Baby Boróka Torda (pictured below-the-fold with her father) has had her "foot print" made green, literally, as pictured here, and prospectively: Baby's lifespan carbon footprint has been offset through tree plantings which will be professionally