published September 6, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Conservative Home I've always found the assertion that all environmentalists are socialist a little hard to swallow. I know plenty of conservatives who love the natural world and abhor waste. And I know plenty of radical greens whose anti-authoritarian, DIY streak puts them in direct conflict with any "big government" solutions from the traditional left. This very ...
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published September 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via qmnonic Nothing like a flood of minks loose in a country's already fragile ecosystem to put environmentalists in a tough spot. Two fur farms in northern Greece were raided, the results of which saw 50,000 minks running for the hills. Fortunately for everyone (except the minks) the problem could solve itself in a short time. UPDATE: An ...
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published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Russian rock star Yury Shevchuk sings in Moscow's Pushkin Square at an Aug. 22 demonstration to protect Khimki Forest. Photo via RFE/RL . Russian authorities are not known for responding to popular protests, but when one of the country's most famous musicians and one of the world's biggest rock stars added their voices to the angry demonstrations against building ...
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published August 27, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via ivillage.com "One Tree Hill" stars Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols talked to Planet Green about their recent trip to the Gulf Coast, where they tried to help with clean-up efforts on the oil-soaked beaches, and about the ways they t... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published August 26, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Torontoist The photo above comes from an account of a rather extreme case of bike rage documented over at Torontoist . But TreeHugger is no stranger to the animosity between bikes and motorists either. From the Tucson driver who laughed at killing a "gay frenchman" cyclist , through to the Asheville man shot in the head for ...
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published August 26, 2010 and has No Comments
Images from metiviergallery : Oil Spill #4, Oil Skimming Boat near Ground Zero, May 12, 2010, chromogenic print The Canadian photographer, Ed Burtynsky, has been photographing the impact of industrialization on the environment for the last 30 years. His huge colour photographs depict the toll that environmental disasters are taking on human beings and the landscape. In May 2010 ...
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published August 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: The WHO Farm When Michelle Obama first announced her White House garden , locavores everywhere rejoiced. Here was a highly symbolic, yet practical, indication of where the administration stood on sustainable agriculture. Yet while the First Lady has since enlarged the White House garden , and even
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Does Obama Really Support Sustainable Agriculture?
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published August 14, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Courtesy of NY Daily News We've seen some pretty crazy stuff from stand-up paddlers recently, but challenge extreme athlete Tom Jones has been taking on for the last three months puts all other stunts to shame. Since May 13, Jones has been paddling 1,500 miles from
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published August 14, 2010 and has No Comments
The Tentstation campground is just five minutes from central Berlin's main Hauptbahnhof train station. Photo via IgoUgo . In the crowded heart of Istanbul lies a secret garden. Actually, there are probably at least a few, but the one I had the pleasure of having a barbecue in recently sits behind a friend's apartment, a neglected, overg... Read the ...
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published August 13, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: The Journey So i have clearly become mildly obsessed with The Journey TV —the travelling documentary project that has shown us videos on an underused train station turned gardening hub , activists' work to restore 600 square miles of ancient Caledonian forest ,
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Awesome Self-Built Strawbale Music Studio: The Strawdio Rocks (Video)
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