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In today's weekly newsletter, we go on about why cold showers are good for you (not the reasons you think); show off some very fancy LED lights in a very old fixture design and whine about the designs of tiny houses.

A Guardian article inspires a silly roundup

You picked them! We hug'em!

From tiny houses to busy bees

Can't keep up? Here's the best of the week in TreeHugger in digestible little bits.

Because we are not called TreeHugger for nothing.

New research identifies the emotions that motivate some people to make ethical choices day after day.

If we're going to push lifestyle change as a strategy, how we manage our money is one of the most important topics of all.

This new Canadian startup offers fabulous winter parkas and bombers that are entirely ethical and vegan.

Facebook makes reconnecting with your past almost scandalous. One friend leads you to 10 more in an exponential manner -- from college, your travels, high school, pre-school

What with social networking sites like Facebook all the rage right now and more attention than ever being focused on the issues of global warming and climate change, the moment certainly seems propitious for the unveiling of MakeMeSustainable, a

Cooling servers requires a lot of energy, so why not locate them somewhere that is always cold?

Who are the best ambassadors for clean energy, energy industry innovators, activists, and more? Vote here.

Help amplify the message of the global water crisis by lending your social media updates to World Water Day 2012

Whlle TreeHugger has covered energy issues since its founding, Energy as a Best of Green category is new for 2012. Find out the best energy project, energy ambassador, activist group, and more.

A new app from BBC allows you to explore content from their great nature documentaries.

Last year before Greenbuild in Chicago, one of America's best architecture critics, Blair Kamin, wrote the introduction to Chicago for GreenSource Magazine. So I was pretty nervous when I was asked to write this year's introduction to Toronto; That is

The buildup is over; Greenbuild has opened in Toronto. I will be heading out to tweet and report from the Convention Centre for the next three days, and round up my buildup posts herein.

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

The point of having a booth at Greenbuild is to attract attention, and like with everything else, design matters. I immediately fell in love with the Kohler booth; In some ways it is so 2005 green, with its recycled materials

What can one say about a show that attracts 23,000 green building professionals across the border to Toronto? It could only beGreenbuild, the grand spectacle put on by theU.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). This was its tenth

The rating system is attacked in 2012 for its 2002 standard and the timing couldn't be worse.

The Austrian system can build at 30 storey high-rise in thirty days

The CEO of the USGBC brings it on and fights back against the Plastic People their poodles in Congress

It's going for every label from LEED to Living Building Challenge

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

LEED v4 is here.

This pediatric care unit showcases how sustainable and kid-friendly design can come together.

It's the right thing to do in so many ways, as LivingHome, Make it Right, Cradle to Cradle and Hanley Wood build a comfy new home for the Lower Ninth

All kinds of interesting people were at Greenbuild.

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

There were inspiring people and some neat new things at Greenbuild, and my biggest ever Best of Show.

It's like watching paint dry.

What do we really want from a building certification system?

Planting trees may be a great way to help save the environment, but thanks to one Catholic diocese in Brazil, it's having a similar effect on parishioners' immortal souls. In an effort to bring a bit of green back

The Echmiadzin Cathedral complex in Armenia is one of 12 spiritual destinations that are becoming more sustainable.

When Copenhagen failed in 2010, he denounced the failure.

Scientists have named a new marine ecological community, the Plastisphere, comprised of, you guessed it, plastic -- and all the organisms that now call ocean plastic home.

The New York Times has a stunning feature showing images of Earth and the immense damage caused by man to the land and atmosphere.

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.

The world's rarest duck - the Madagascar pochard - needs a new environment if it's going to survive

He started an institute for making the world more playful and loving.

Stairs are coming out of the closet and becoming the major architectural element, helping keep people active and healthy.

Experts have predicted a "high risk" of rupture on this aging oil pipeline that has recently been approved to bring Alberta tar sands crude to Eastern Canada.

This is a beautiful house, but it raises a lot of questions about what "respect for the environment" means.