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In the long run, the internal combustion engine (ICE) is on the way out and electric motors are on the way in, but ICEs have been around for so loooong that we should be careful about announcing th...
We have heard of climate deniers and chemical industry defenders, but now John Tierney of The New York Times joins the ranks of the Everything Deniers.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/5_...
Back in the spring of 2005, Treehugger posted "14 Things People Will Do When They Realize Climate Change is Real." Now they look back at their predictions and tally the score. They scored higher ...
Electric Cars: You Want 'Em? We've Got 'Em! Over the past 3 years, we've written about many electric cars here on TreeHugger. We think it's time to look in the rearview mirror, so here's an overv...
The campaign to stop fast food packaging from being the number one contributor to forest destruction in the Southern US from Treehugger.comFull Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/No_Free_Refill...
There is a gent in Oakland, California named Terry Kenney who is determined to turn road traffic into electricity. 'It took him eight years to get a working prototype, but now there's one working a...
One problem looms above all others, though, every time the nuclear question is raised. What about nuclear waste? A recent study by Professor Mercouri G. Kanatzidis at Northwestern University may pr...
If you think subway cars are only useful so long as they are efficiently carrying urban travelers from point A to point B, well, you're wrong! It turns out that hundreds of retired New York City su...
The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world's largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting "soup" stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Cali...
"That's what conservative pundit Michelle Malkin calls compact fluorescents..." Treehugger pulls together some links and info to help enlighten folks on CFLs.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/envi...
An insight on what carbon footprint really means, and some very interesting (but rather old) per capita greenhouse gas emissions by country of the US and the world.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/e...
We imagine most of you, upon reading the post's title, will have already (and accurately) guessed the short answer: the atmosphere and the oceans (for the most part). But, to delve further into the...
The word 'organic' is banned! *Gasp*Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Organic_Overused
good article on treehuggerFull Digg post: http://digg.com/odd_stuff/good_article_on_treehugger
It has been estimated that in the U.S. alone the geothermal energy resources are enough to power the entire U.S. for 30,000 years. Yet, there are serious questions about...Full Digg post: http://di...
Treehugger's coverage of Plan AFull Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/M_S_Plan_A
Ring the bells! Pop the (organic) champagne! TreeHugger’s 2007 Gift Guide is here! We've made this guide the most comprehensive yet, with 180+ gift in three shades of green, making it a perfect ref...
Billboard in South AfricaFull Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Pic_Use_Electricity_Wisely
Rabid followers of the Honda FCX Fuel-cell car will be excited to learn that the series name for the concept-FCX will be announced next month at the Los Angeles Auto Show, where attendees can also ...
So many architects have tried to design transportable housing for emergencies; not many work. Wired covers a few of them: "Shipping costs are prohibitive -- it can sometimes cost twice as much to s...
A free online game by Persuasive Games, this byte-size morsel of edutainment is a cautionary tale in the guise of mindless, time-sucking fun. Your mission, if you choose to harvest it, is to squeez...
Question: Does an organic diet matter? Answer: yesFull Digg post: http://digg.com/health/Ask_TreeHugger_Does_An_Organic_Diet_Matter
Well actually it’s a threat to pregnant women, their fetus, children, the elderly, farmworkers and everybody else that lives near application sites according to a letter sent to EPAFull Digg post: ...
Experts at the Global Footprint Network calculate that 19 December 1987 was the first time that humanity used up a year's allotment of the earth's resources before a year finished. Each year, this ...
Perhaps half the residents of the US still thinkFull Digg post: http://digg.com/general_sciences/Coal_Released_Mercury_Ruins_Fishing_and_Duck_Hunting
Launched by the Public Insight Network of American Public Media, Consumer Consequences is an online game that calculates your overall ecological footprint (not just carbon emissions), allows you to...
Find out about special activities that are taking place from September 16th to 22nd in Buenos Aires city. Join the bicycle marathon this Saturday! Read the story at TreeHugger.comFull Digg post: ht...
A thank you letter from a cyclist in Toronto who was helped by some strangers. Great ending: "You give me faith in humanity".Full Digg post: http://digg.com/odd_stuff/A_Picture_is_Worth_Being_Nice_...
The solid-oxide fuel cells produce half the greenhouse gas of conventional burning, but the real savings comes from eliminating the transmission losses between the central plant and home.Full Digg ...
David Roberts of Grist saysFull Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Coal_What_It_Costs_Us_2
Green cars are officially sexy. No longer are they small, ugly, plodding electric commuters - they're speedy, exciting, desirable sports cars. Inhabitat has compliled a list of the 5 sexiest models...
With a few easily implemented improvements Volvo kicks the mileage of their C30 over 50mpg.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Volvo_makes_cool_clean
Computing provides a smorgasbord of glutty abundance; the processors run faster than you can type,Full Digg post: http://digg.com/tech_news/Internet_Plumbing_Clogged_Bandwidth_is_Maxed_Out
We need to rethink the way we operate our cities.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/world_news/Park_Avenue_Before_After_the_Car
Creative vertical Wind Turbine design wins award.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Vertical_Wind_Turbine_renewable_energy_award
The 11th Hour packs a punch. As a friend said to me after seeing the film – it’s got everything An Inconvenient Truth was missing…solutions. It should be regarded as the crown jewel for the movie s...
An overview of Sydney in terms of nature, development, McMansions, BASIX, land shortage, road-building, rail, car, bicycle and ferry transport, food markets and restaurants, eco-retailers, water, w...
This ingeniously concieved printer table disguises the paper input and output trays as drawers, and packs all the moving parts into a clean and efficient form. Rather than try to design a printer t...
The Carnival of the Green is a weekly blog phenomenon concieved of over pints of beer in London between Al and Nick Aster of TriplePundit almost two years ago. It travels from blog to blog every Mo...
check it out!Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Blue_Egg_is_Treehugger_s_favorite_green_of_the_week
One of the most symbolic and popular symbols of the "green" movement is the hybrid-electric car, known better as simply the hybrid car. These vehicles extend the functionality of traditional intern...
TreeHugger wants to cross-pollinate the globe with green. We´d love to get passionate, talented, driven writers that are experts in in various fields to highlight the latest in green. Sound like yo...
When discussing cob building, Sean noted "frankly, most of the building in the cob revival have been downright ugly" commenters called us snobs and one went so far as to suggest that "With your sen...
While the notion that environmental protection can be good for business certainly hasn't gone mainstream in capitalist China, this year the country has made some bold attempts to make pollution bad...
Discovery Communications announced the acquisition of the green blog TreeHugger.com. The site will become part of Planet Green, which includes the first 24/7 eco-lifestyle TV network launching in 5...
Discovery Communications has announced the acquisition of TreeHugger.com for what is believed to be $10 million.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/tech_news/Discovery_Acquires_TreeHugger_com_For_10mil...
Leading up to the launch of their Planet Green network in 2008, Discovery had appeared flush in original content, but not so heavy in terms of what they would project online. In an incredible move,...
Close to four years ago, TreeHugger was founded with the goal of helping to push sustainability into the mainstream. Today, as an award-winning Top 20 blog having served over 50 million pages...Fu...
Very unique architecture. I love the minimalist feel. The sleeping loft is probably my favorite part.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Awesome_Summer_House
Treehugger.com gives a great introduction to ethanol, and discusses the differences between corn ethanol (US) and ethanol derived from sugar (Brazil).Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Tre...
A round-up of the August issue of Business 2.0 magazine - and a mention of the 'Save Business 2.0' Facebook group.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/tech_news/TreeHugger_This_month_in_Business_2_0
Meat just keeps on cropping up as a topic on TreeHugger. So what’s TH's, errm, beef with beef? Well, we’ve already heard about the large carbon footprint of a burger [or should that be hoofprint?]....
A write up on Tree-Hugger about a new website http://www.fartneutral.comFull Digg post: http://digg.com/politics/Treehugger_article_on_fart_neutral
Is that a flower…or a "giant phallus"? In San Diego,"organic" design takes on a whole new meaning with the heated controversy over a proposed green 40-story residential tower.Full Digg post: http:/...
Like the Tong Lamp, the first thing we saw when looking at Ilaria Marelli's Fiocco "Chair" (it's more of a nest, really) was "Wow, that's cool. I'll bet I could make something like that." Like many...
Want to talk about government conspiracies? The Bush administration has repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress key public-health reports because they were contrary to its political agenda, accordin...
"This power adapter automatically shuts down gadgets left on standby. It lets you plug all your gadgets in to one outlet, but monitors power usage and displays it using a pattern of LEDs."Full Digg...
The Lighthouse is another innovative green skyscraper to be constructed in Dubai. For energy generation, it will have three enormous 225 kilowatt wind turbines (29 meters in diameter), and 4000 pho...
Remember reading on digg about the $2000 clean up for one CFL bulb. Well it was more hating from FOX Noise.... read on and find out how there cherry pick the info and like usual never tell the whol...
Helen Suh MacIntosh, professor in environmental health at Harvard University, explains the low level of mercury exposure from a broken compact fluorescent light bulb, and how to clean it up. "A...
Can we live sustainably in the suburbs? If everyone on Earth lived like the average American, we would need 5 planets to sustain us. If they lived like the average European, we'd need 3. We only ha...
While some (I have to admit - including me) use plastics to only pollute, others use it for far more creative purposes. Click to find out what for.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/PICS_W...
I never really noticed this before, but Treehugger's website is really clean, simple, and most importantly--functional. Check out the "page jump" feature at the side. Everything about this site see...
Via Treehugger.com: Interview with the maker of software that knows you write in spurts, knows that you leave for lunch between 11:30 and 12 every day, knows you never show up on the weekend. It le...
Only your dispassionate Canadian correspondent could write this without colour or favour, but is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000...
a useful index on treehugger for environment lovers to watch the trends of hot environmental topics in news!Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/a_green_index
Tired of myspace? Here are some green networking sites to check out.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/TreeHugger_Picks_Green_Social_Networking
Solar power in the Sunshine State -- sounds like a winner to us! The town of Dania, Florida has taken a page from Treehugger, and decided that solar-powered street lights would be a good>Full Digg ...
This week on TreeHuggerTV we are back in the supermarket shopping with nutriton expert Marion Nestle. Come help us carry the shopping basket and learn more about the pros and cons of selecting orga...
the EPA is considering removing lead entirely from the list of pollutants it controls under the Clean Air Act.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/health/EPA_Set_to_Abandon_30_Years_of_Air_Quality_Control
We alluded earlier to the home hydrogen fueling station being developed in Australia. We at TreeHugger have never been fond of the hydrogen economy, with its problems of sourcing the hydrogen (real...
Treehugger article [viz architecture.myninjaplease.com] on a sustainable office tower in Guadalajara by architect Carme Pinos...Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Mexican_Office_Tower_with...
Is green a fad or here to stay? Get the answers as Worldchangers Alex Steffen and Sarah Rich continue their cocktail conversation with TreeHugger Founder Graham Hill and THTV’s Simran Sethi. Also d...
Thorium is an abundant element, leaves very little radioactive waste, doesn't create weapons grade material, and with 1 kilogram of Thorium the equivalent of 4,000 tons of coal, may solve the worl...
Four in-wheel motors would give this car a top speed of 286 mph, 1091 horsepower, and 0-62 in 3 seconds.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/hardware/1091_horsepower_Electric_car_The_Audi_R_Zero_Wet_Dream
Treehugger TV - dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. In collaboration with our fine cadre of producers and editors, we'll be putting out a weekly ...
Solar powered trash cans are now a reality in Santa Cruz....okay, not all the way. They are being tested by the city right now, and they are getting good reviews. But should they get a good review?...
Tesla Motors did a pros & cons for plug-in hybrids vs. electric cars. Some added commentary by TreeHugger.com. Interesting stuff.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Electric_Cars_VS_Plug_in...
It's "Going Green" week on the show and TreeHugger has been invited. They are even followed by Mr. T!Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/TreeHugger_com_on_Martha_Stewart_Show_tomorrow
An amateur mathematician, Hagar Dronbecker, has discovered that Pi repeats itself at the hyper-thousandth level, the sequence occurs in a new a controversial realm of numbers.Full Digg post: http:/...
Apple makes greats computers, but the iLife isn't quite as harmonious as it might seem. They company lags behind in recycling and the elimination of toxic substances from its products.Full Digg pos...
Here are three efficient gadgets that can actually pay for themselves, and can even start to save you money in the long run.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/tech_news/Top_Three_Gadgets_That_Can_Actu...
No batteries required for this smoke alarm! Instead, it connects directly into ceiling mounted light sockets, automatically recharging whenever the light is turned on. Not bad — it involves less ma...
Japanese scientists have discovered a way to convert vegetable oil into biodiesel with a new much less expensive catalyst (10 to 50 times less expensive) than what we currently use. The new catalys...
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