Weekday Vegetarian: Kale and Ricotta Mini Quiche
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My son is working on the Provincial election campaign right now and the small staff work about 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for the 4 week period leading up to the election. It seems the only time they eat is if one of them does a falafel run while the rest of them keep working. So as part of my election donation I've been taking food over ever day. Not full meals, but healthy snack things and fruit trays that they can eat instead of depending solely on take-out food. One of the things I made th...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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When you see a Daily Show clip on TreeHugger (or on any other site, really), you know what to expect: Jon Stewart 'blasting' a Fox News pundit or Republican politician for doing something ridiculous. Jon Stewart attacked the idiotic allegations of 
Please put aside your college football loyalties for one minute and give the University of Nebraska its due for standing up to TransCanada, the corporation that is trying to build the 1,700-mile long Keystone XL pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf Coast. Today the university's athletic department announced that it is has ended its sponsorship agreement with TransCanada after several people justifiably complained about the pipeline corporation's advertising in the stadium.
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Old cast iron rad in our living room. image credit Lloyd Alter
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It's not exactly easy to free a drunk elk from a tree, we learned this week.
We also have disturbing news from the tracking device monitoring the penguin Happy Feat's journey home, amazing close up photos of whales, a report that says humans are hardwired to respond to animals, and more in the Week in Animal News.
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Circle of Blue has a good piece on our peak water problem, including definitions of the types of peak water:
"There are three different definitions of "peak water" and there is evidence that the U.S., or parts of the country, have exceeded peak constraints for all three: Peak Renewable Water, Peak Non-Renewable Water, and Peak Ecological Water."
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Wouldn't it be nice if you could just take your car from road to lake? Well now you can, and while camping to boot: This wild design morphs a trailer from a tent into a boat.
We also have old TVs that become homes for cats, a 1970s RV transformed into an off-grid eco-home, exclusive coverage of New York Fashion Week, and more in our roundup of the best images on TreeHugger this week.
30,000 green building professionals are coming to Toronto for Greenbuild in October; this series will try to explain Toronto to them.
There has been a lot of green building going on in Toronto and much has shown up on TreeHugger; Here is a roundup of some of the buildings we have shown. Perhaps the most dramatic and important recent addition to the Toronto scene is Stephen Teeple's 60 Richmond Street East Coop, that is green, gorgeous and from the public sector yet, proving that social housing doesn't have to be boring and oppressive. 
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You know that backyard chicken keeping has gone mainstream when national newspapers feature a consumer guide on what to look for in a chicken coop. From 
