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It's not exactly breaking news, but this topic is worth a recap. The Kimberley Process was established to prevent diamond sales from funding conflict—"blood diamonds"—but in reality, not a whole lot has changed. Chances are good that those "certified conflict-free" diamonds you might be shopping for as an ethical consumer are just as con...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sorry ma'am, am I parked on your foot?
It's not every day that you see this combination of green transportation methods. It's common to see bicycles on buses, but not electric cars on the subway! At first glance it might look like a 'sociopatically lazy' person decided to take the train, but in fact, this car is probably a tiny electric vehicle made for mobility disabled people. More details below....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A glimpse of things to come, once new regulations specifying ships use low-sulfur fuels near coastlines comes into effect next year: A new study shows that pollution from ships drops up to 90% when cleaner fuel is used.
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Hey everyone, remember the BP spill? Me neither. Well, a key federal report on whatever it was came out today, and it places blame for the disaster exactly where you'd expect: Most is reserved for BP, whose shoddy management decisions ultimately enabled the well's blowout. But blame is also spread to Halliburton for its crappy cement job, and to the rig operato...Read the full story on TreeHugger
A simulation of what NYC's bike share will look like. NYC DOT
New York City has made some triumphant strides towards bike-friendliness in the last few years: Specifically, more and better bike lanes now grace the city's streets. As a result, ridership is spiking, and New Yorkers stand to embrace biking as a primary mode of transportation en masse. Next up: Bike-sharing. A public bike-share system in NYC has been a long time coming, but i...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Our coverage of New York Fashion Week continues, with Brooklyn designer Suzanne Rae.
Rae's influences from the New York art gallery scene and design ateliers Costume National in Milan and Morgane Le Fay in New York always spread their wings in her designs and we are appreciative of that. In fact, we specifically look for this special quality in her designs.
And she didn't disappoint in her Spring 2012 collection.
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Urban farms each have their own identity, their own feel and methodology. But the one thing they have in common is idealism, and the sense that our cities can be so much more than they currently are. They can be centers of growth and nourishment, rather than lot after lot of stores or, in some cases, nothingness.
In the documentary "Growing Cit...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Deisgner Dragan Trenchevski has come up with a concept any college student would love. Or anyone living in a tiny apartment, really. It is a laptop that acts not only as a digital cookbook, but as a cooking surface too. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Boulder Wind Power has come up with a turbine design that it says can produce electricity at or below $0.04 per kilowatt-hour, allowing it to compete directly with fossil fuel-based power. What sets the design apart is that it does not require the scarce metal dysprosium—the Achilles heel of turbines, as well as of hybrid and electric vehicles—and that it also uses less steel....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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With the ongoing Texas drought now setting classified as the worst one-year drought on record there, OnEarth has a really good summary of the situation, the factors contributing to it. If you're behind on this, check out the whole thing.
The part which gra...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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TreeHugger has discussed the concept of co-working many times, noting that "for some, the home environment just isn't conducive to productivity or they just need a bit of time away and the wifi coffee shop doesn't cut it." Most people involved in co-working will talk about how it is more than just a desk by the hour: "co-working as a whole is generally defined by four major values: collaboration, openness, community and sustainability."
New York's Grind is different; it is to co-working what Kopi luwak coffee made in a ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
A Hawksbill turtle swims off cost of Cozumel, Mexico. © Simone Rossini
This is a Hawksbill turtle swimming in a coral reef, a place it is expected to be found. However, Hawksbill turtles have found a new place to live -- mangroves. Previously unknown to live in this type of ecosystem, it seems the sea turtles have come up with a new survival tactic. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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From an awesome tour of a permaculture allotment to a 20-year-old forest garden there are, of course, many fabulous video tours of permaculture projects and gardens available online. Many of these plots have incredible plants and other features. But this might be the first time I've seen a private garden that includes its own, cob-constructed bus sh...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Hawksbill sea turtle © CI/Photo by Sterling Zumbrunn
The loss of sea turtles as bycatch among fisheries is heartbreaking. Currently, we kill an estimated 4,600 turtles every year due to fishing -- they are wrapped in the nets or hooked on bait lines set for fish. However, a new report shows that this represents a 90% reduction of sea turtles as bycatch since 1990. So, is 4,600 deaths is good news? Are we making progress, or are we still on a path to lose sea turtles forever?...Read the full story on TreeHugger
A still from an animated gif of the smoke spreading through Minnesota. Image: Central Regional Headquarters, NOAA
A wildfire has been steadily burning in the Boundary Waters region of Northern Minnesota since August 18, but is now spreading rapidly, covering 16 miles between Monday and Tuesday. The fire took the unexpected turn due to extreme wind and dry conditions, and officials expect it to burn for weeks. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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German scientists have just said that Arctic sea ice set a new record low this year, but the US National Snow and Ice Data Center has released its own measurements showing a slightly higher sea ice summer so far . The difference between the two observations is just 100,000 square kilometers--4.24 million on September 8 from Germany, 4...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image Credit: Michael Jantzen
Michael Jantzen is best known for his M-House and his other transformer houses that have been everywhere on the net, but on his website is a link to some of his older projects, from the seventies, and he did amazing work.
In an interview on his greenhouses and building technologies, he describes how he used cheap and basic agricultural components to build a lovely little solar vacation house, shown here.
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With real-world electric vehicles (EVs) finally entering mainstream markets in serious numbers, and viable EV charging infrastructure being built worldwide, it looks increasingly realistic to expect electric cars, motorbikes and bikes to become an ever-more important part of our transportation future. But doubts still remain among consumers. That's why a 2-week co...Read the full story on TreeHugger
And I thought I got crapped on by the Apple fanboys in my review of the new Foster-designed Apple headquarters. Christopher Hawthorne of the LA Times is now called an idiot, "hanging on to a Stalin era dream of a collectivist society toiling in a dense urban utopia." Hawthorne writes:
In many ways it is a doggedly old-fashioned proposal, recalling the 1943 Pentagon building as well as much of the suburban corporate architecture of the...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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