The people whose land we occupied so many years ago have not been given their fair share of our prosperity. Right now, there are more than 10,000 Native American households in Arizona that have no…
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Over the past year we’ve heard of many networks looking to make their practices more sustainable. Now we have another to add to our list. The Weather Channel, as part of its “green initiatives,” has built a new high def studio which will be completed in February 2008. This studio is expected […]

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We now know that chronic exposure to diacetyl, the artificial-flavoring chemical in microwavable popcorn, causes a debilitating and sometimes-fatal lung disease known as bronchiolitis obliterans, or “popcorn lungs.” But what’s an armchair cinephile with a jonesing for lightly puffed snacks to do?
It actually couldn’t be easier (or less inexpensive) to make your own […]

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Soil erosion runs far deeper than we might think. In fact, we could be looking at a “silent global crisis”—one that is undermining food production and water availability, not to mention responsible for 30 percent of greenhouse gases.
“We are overlooking soil as the foundation of all life on Earth,” Andres Arnalds, assistant director […]

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We believe in miracles, since you came along, you sexy TreeHugger Forums…

1) Forums user saxon68 thinks (as TreeHugger does) that “biofuels, hailed by many as the green solution to offset a coming oil shortage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, are not a cure-all solution,” because, in part, they “requ…

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PowerSEED began as a way to playfully and artistically beautify a Pasadena electric power plant. The art installation was commissioned by the City of Pasadena to increase safety and security in the…
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Q: Some of my friends don’t seem to care as much about the environment as I do. How can get them to care?
A: I say stuff their tailpipes with potatoes and look menacingly at them. No, I’m only…
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As you might imagine, the process of getting GO launched, running and successful has been a learning and growing experience for all of us here. We’ve all had our little victories, and made our…
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Quick fact: Recycling materials can take as little as 5 percent of the energy you’d wind up expending if you produced them from virgin sources, as is the case with aluminum, which means you not only conserve already-limited resources, but you also curtail potential atmosphere-warming carbon emissions—95 percent, in some cases.
But almost one-quarter […]

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We showed a Canadian icebreaker in our earlier post on the battle for the melting north; here is the US Coast Guard Healy, which according to Robert Lee Hotz in the Wall Street Journal is “are gathering the data legally required to extend national territories across vast reaches of the mineral-rich seafloor usually blocked by […]

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