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The #OccupyWallStreet movement -- which has now spilled into Brooklyn and inspired protests across the world -- is gaining some high profile supporters. So far, notable backers have included Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, Kanye West, and Cornell West, among others. Now, Al Gore has voiced some power...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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In what is not an alternative draft of the screenplay for Footloose but an actual news item, a town in Wisconsin has moved to solve its bicycle and pedestrian safety issues by making a simple law: No more walking and biking. It looks like the city of Hull may just become the least green city in the entire world. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Occupy Brooklyn Begins
The #OccupyWallStreet movement is now world famous. 'Occupy' protests have sprung up in hundreds of cities around the world, from Boston to Reykjavík to Seattle to Madrid. But there's at least one culturally significant, hugely populous location -- one that's curiously nearby to Liberty Square itself -- that still hadn't seen an Occupy movement sprout. And that's Brooklyn.
This Saturday at 11 am, the Occupy Brooklyn movement offici...Read the full story on TreeHugger
As I mentioned in this Tomatillo and Avocado Salsa recipe, I loves me a good salsa bar. There is just so much to pick from! Enjoy this salsa with some good friends, a game of UNO and, a nicely chilled bottle of Pinot Grigio. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last month announced a 20-year plan to protect the Grand Canyon from increasing uranium mining pressures. A bill introduced in Congress this week to "save uranium mining,"...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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When EPA's proposed revisions to Federal air quality (ozone) standards were delayed, my impression was that the move was led by White House political strategists and had nothing to do with what American citizens prefer. Ten (10) polls recently conducted for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the League of Women Voters of the US (LWV), and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) corroborate these suspicions. Here are the poll highlights in aggregate, as Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Update: This bill passed the House today, 267 to 144.
Earthjustice calls the bill: "a misguided attempt to neuter the Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to set the first ever federal regulations on coal ash. Despite evidence showing groundwater contamination from arsenic, lead and other toxic metals at hundreds of sites and a recent study showing that federal coal ash regulations would create Read the full story on TreeHugger
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With the debt crisis and energy constraints putting a serious question mark over the very notion of economic growth, it will be interesting to see how well big box retailers and globalized supply chains weather the coming decades. But if Wal-Mart's major investment in solar and Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Building with whole timber -- as opposed to milling it down into 'products' -- has lots of advantages, ranging from increased fire resistance (seems paradoxical but true), low embodied energy and carbon sequestration.
But we're not talking about sourcing this kind of timber from old-growth forests, but from thinner "weed" trees that are crowding out a stand of trees in the forest, or diseased trees which have fallen. To that end, a Wisconsin-based green design firm, Whole Tree Ar...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Business giving, and even campaigning, is nothing new. But it has been heartening to see how many food industry brands have rallied around the plight of the honeybees to develop serious, substantial responses—from Haagen Dazs' bee boy mayhem to The Cooperative Group's Plan Bee—to Colony Collapse Disorder and other threats to pollinators. It's almost as if they know...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oh yes. Snapdragon asks, "How many preying mantises does it take to power a smart phone?" And indeed, they put together a bug circus to find out. Check out the video. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Cyclist Todd Miller in Lisbon (L) and Istanbul (R), the two ends of his cross-continental ride. Photos: Todd Miller.
Istanbul's small but dedicated cycling community rallied this week to help an American biker navigate the city's dangerous roads -- what he anticipated would be "one of the trickiest parts" of his 5,847-kilometer cross-continental journey from Read the full story on TreeHugger
From making ecocide a criminal offense to giving animals their own legal public defenders, TreeHugger has often explored the notion of how and how far the law should recognize the rights of our non-human neighbors. Over at Permaculture Magazine, environmental lawyer Tom Brenan says that "Wild Law" should be at the very heart of our entire lega...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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During our live chat with Solarcentury's Jeremy Leggett yesterday, we started out by discussing the high profile solar railway bridge his company is helping install in central London as we speak. This was, Jeremy argu...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore.
We also have Steve Jobs' use of design to change the world, stunning starry night photos, GM's new electric car, a nontraditional pumpkin recipe for Thanksgiving, and more in our roundup of the best images on TreeHugger this week.
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Beginning last July, officials from Alaska's Department of Wildlife Management began receiving reports of ringed seals showing signs of a mysterious, lesion-causing disease that has so far killed dozens of animals and inflicted possibly hundreds more -- and the illness shows no signs of slowing. Biologists are approaching the situation with particular concern considering the vital role the seals play in an arctic food-chain, one that's already under pressure from melting sea ice -- leading some to worry about the disease's pote...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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