Naturalist Gabriel Willow leading a NYC Audubon Sunset Ecocruise photo courtesy of Marija Filipovic
The wildlife living in the East River between NYC's bridges is often overlooked. Most people don't realize that New York is an archipelago of islands and that ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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We have already written about the recycling of the distinctive red telephone booths in England. With everyone using cell phones, the evocative boxes have become redundant and the phone company is selling them off to local communities.
Imagine our delight, whilst meandering through the pastoral roads of Hampshire, to come across this picture-perfect example at a crossroads of a small village.
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The Obama administration is expected to nominate former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The appointment would pass up Elizabeth Warren who pushed for the bureau's creation.
Google has rolled out its latest venture into the world of social media: Google Plus. Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Jennifer 8 Lee about the newest social network.
There are debt crises and possible defaults looming on both sides of the Atlantic, and this has investors looking for safe places to park their money. Gold is always attractive when the going gets rough. So many investors are piling into the precious metal that prices have been rising for the last 10 days.
The White House and congressional leaders continued talking over the weekend, but with no public signs of progress on a deal to raise the debt ceiling.
As NASA ends its shuttle program this week, a private company is gearing up for business. Virgin Galactic is hoping to begin offering rides into space soon. The company is still vague about its exact timeline for a launch, though official hope for a liftoff in about 18 months.
Mary Louise Kelly and Steve Inskeep have the Last Word in business.
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In addition to being one of the planet's most endangered primates, northern white-cheeked crested gibbons are among the most romantic -- and it's their love of the serenade which clued researchers to a significant discovery. Over the last 45 years, the gibbons have been brought the brink of extinction from deforestation, logging, hunting, threats which reduced the species' numbers to a point where recovery seemed unlikely. But now, a surprising find in the jungles of Vietnam is bringing wit...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Carmageddon may have come and gone without causing too much chaos on in car-driven city of Los Angeles, but that's not to say there were no winners resulting from the closing of a busy 10-mile stretch of freeway over the weekend. In response to one airline's offer of ridiculously low fares to fly over LA this weekend, a group of cyclists challenged an airplane to a race to see which vehicle actually offers the better deal. A...Read the full story on TreeHugger
More than 40 million Americans care for a loved one at home, providing some $450 billion of care a year, says a new AARP study. Advocates say they're tired, stressed out and at higher risk of health problems themselves — and the problem could get worse as the baby-boom generation enters old age.
Pigeons in Rouen, France. Photo: Frédéric Bisson / Creative Commons.
On a boat trip up the Bosphorus last weekend, our crew of urban-dwellers practically capsized the ship by racing to one side to catch a glimpse of dolphins bobbing through the waves. The fleeting moment was all the more me...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image: Glyme molecule
Glyme is a nickname for 1,2-dimethoxyethane, a solvent chemical in the glycol ether family. Glyme, and its close cousins diglyme, and ethylglyme, are suspected reproductive toxins. For example, monoglyme is officially required to carry the warnings "May impair fertility" and "May cause harm to the unborn child" on products sold in the European Union. 11 other substances in the glyme family are chemically similar, but hav...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Here's one to file away under weird. Three little ladies in Midway, Georgia were enjoying their summer day selling lemonade when local police drove by and told them to close up shop. You'd think fresh outdoor air and the opportunity to bide summer's lazy days away from video games in a hyper air conditioned room was criminal...Or was it?...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Bahar Shahpar and Tara St. James of Guilded. Photo: courtesy Guilded
"The fashion industry needs a wake-up call," according to ethical fashion designers-turned-teachers Bahar Shahpar, of her eponymous label, and Tara St. James of Study NY.
After years working in the fashion industry and learning the destructive impact...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It's one of those truths that you'd rather not know. That bright red, orange, and green gelatin you slurped down as a child is actually made from animals. Vegans avoid it like the plague because it's derived from the collagen in an animal's skin and bones. But what if it was made from humans? How d...Read the full story on TreeHugger
For retailers, it's the second "most wonderful time of the year" next to the holiday shopping season. That's why they're getting an early start.
Federal Reserve data show consumer debt has begun ticking up again after dropping during the recession. The company that measures credit risk attributes growing credit card debt to wealthier people spending more freely and to poorer people not paying their balances in full.
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Los Angeles has finally found a way to cut down traffic: terror. The announcement that ten miles of Interstate 405 would be shut down for 53 hours was accompanied by a public three month long awareness campaign to warn drivers to stay away from the major traffic artery. And so far (about halfway through the shut down), it looks like the threats of traffic even worse than usual have worked. Southern Californians are staying off the roads, and have avoid...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Space and water heating are responsible for about two thirds of energy use in American homes. Considering that the conventional choices for home heating are oil and gas, it's not easy to find a sustainable way to keep warm in the winter months. But if you're not up for the move to a passive house, don't worry; there's a green solution for your heating woes. It's the Sun Container, a solar powered ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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