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If you're programming your DVR for the weekend, consider "Battle for Blair Mountain: Working in America," a new CNN documentary that debuts on Sunday at 8 pm ET. It's about the battle over mountaintop removal, a true American tragedy.
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It's hard to fathom that just three years ago, the Republican presidential candidate had wholly endorsed cap and trade. As in, John McCain repeatedly pledged to fight climate change by putting a price on carbon emissions. The prospect of seeing such a proposal from a Republican today is absolutely unthinkable: Read the full story on TreeHugger
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With Japan's internet business giants pursuing renewable energy, its "sunrise plan" pushing for solar on all new buildings, and Tokyo's residents cutting energy use 15%, it's fair to say that the Fukushima disaster may turn out to be a true teaching moment.
Here's a short report from CNN about Japan's new found enthusiasm for solar, and how a crisis may indeed be an opportunity to build...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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I lurk on green building sites less than I used to because they talk about, logically, green building, endless arguments about where the vapor barrier goes in single family custom houses instead of the bigger issues of planning, density and transportation. So I was surprised to read a post by Carl Seville, the Green Building Curmudgeon at Green Building Advisor addressing those issues, and sounding positively Kunstlerian....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Mountaintop removal coal mining. Scientists studying the environmental effects of it say no remediation is ever enough to offset the damage is causes both around the mine and downstream. There have been high-profile protests over it where both celebrities a...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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While many environmentalists are cheering the removal of dams as a way to bring health back to rivers and restore fisheries, a new project slated for Alaska could put one of the nation's tallest dams in place in the state. It would create a reservoir 39 miles long, and as much as 2 miles wide at its broadest point. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Of the 224 billion beverage containers sold in the U.S. every year, only about 29 percent are recycled. Companies have been blamed in the past for not doing more to increase that rate—but that may now be changing, according to reports that Coca-Cola and Nestlé Waters North America have said they would support state laws to make producers financially responsible for collecting and recycling post-consumer beverage packaging....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Whether it's humanure composting in urban Oakland, or safer sanitation with humanure in Haiti, there are many advocates of humanure systems and other forms of composting toilets around the world. Yet every time the topic comes up, there are concerns about sanitation.
Maybe this video of a young girl frolicking in a humanure-fed garden will make skeptics ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Apropos of Arctic sea ice melting on track to set a new record low this year: There's some new research on how quickly we might see an entirely ice-free summer. Scientists from the National Center for Atmo...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Agri-giant Monsanto may be forced to take one on the chin in India: The nation's first genetically modified food crop, a variety of eggplant known at Bt brinjal, has sucked its Big Ag developers into court. Monsanto, Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Imagine being seven years old and saving all your money for over two years. Imagine being seven years old and having a whole $137.88 in your piggy bank. That's like an adult having a few grand in a bank account just waiting to be spent. Now imagine being seven years old and wanting to donate all that money to an environmental non-profit. One young environmentalist did just that. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
We've tried painting a compelling picture of the ongoing drought in East Africa, and accompanying famine in parts of Somalia, but without anyone on the ground there we've mostly just used stats and short clips of video. There have been few personal accounts of what's going on--until now: Head over to The Guardian for their compelling interactive piece on the stories of people who've had their lives entirely upended b...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The idea of designing a drone after the maple seed has been around for awhile. But finally, researchers have made it happen. DARPA's maple seed-inspired drone has taken flight, and can be remote controlled to fly around the room, even do vertical take-offs, while spinning just like a maple seed. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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As a polyglot fluent in seven languages, French primatologist Dr. Francine Neago can converse in the native tongue of peoples throughout the world -- but she's interested most of all in talking with orangutans.
Find out more about her groundbreaking research -- along with other ways humans are helping animals, from a baby humpback whale rescued after it beached and a newborn gorilla saved from poachers to donkeys relocated from Hawaii and foxes lulled to sleep by the radio -- in this Week in Animals sli...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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