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Flaming Lips and Raised Fists: Thousands Celebrate Earth Day at DC's Green Apple Festival
After a weekend of green volunteer service, yesterday's Green Apple Festival in Washington, DC, was the nation's biggest environmental "thank you," an awesome
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Philippe Cousteau at the Green Apple Festival [Video]
Philippe Cousteau, who continues the oceanographic work of his legendary grandfather Jacques Cousteau, was on hand during Sunday's Green Apple Festival celebration in Washington, DC. We spoke to him briefly about the meaning of Earth Day this year, his
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TreeHugger Talks to Lisa Jackson, EPA Chief on New EPA, Youth, CO2: "We Have a Moment" [Video]
It was a big weekend for Lisa Jackson, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency. When TreeHugger caught up with her on Saturday, the EPA chief with an interest in "putting science back into the agency" had just announced a new program to
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How Carbon Offsets Really Work: The Onion
Carbon offsets won't save the planet. But, as the Onion points out [click to enlarge], it might make us feel a little better, at least before a new coal-fired factory in China comes online.More on Carbon Offsets Planet Green: How to Go Green: Carbon
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Crop Failure Drives 1,500 Indian Farmers to Suicide
To some, environmental damage might sometimes seem like a distant, long-term issue. Not in India.Over 1,500 farmers in the Indian state of Chattisgarh committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure due to plummeting water levels, the
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Brian Keane of SmartPower, Renewable Energy Marketer: "Our Thinking is Twenty Years Behind"
Few would disagree with the idea of clean energy: it can help reduce global warming, air pollution, energy shortages, the national debt, and our reliance on foreign oil. But America isn't exactly putting its money where its mouth is. How to get average
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Chinese Battery-Maker BYD "Could Be World's Biggest Automaker"
Berkshire Hathaway's David Sokol with BYD's Wang Chuanfu in Detroit (Reuters) Buffett on Board BYD, the Chinese battery maker-turned-automaker that stunned the world with the first mass-market electric plug-in car late last year, remains something of a
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Dolphins "Protect" Chinese Vessel From Pirates
Thanks to Brian, we now know how overfishing landed Capt. Phillips (and a band of pirates) in hot water. According to Chinese state media, it seems that we have another feedback effect: marine life in the Gulf of Aden is
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Beijing's Car Ban Keeps on Truckin'
Just as we're getting excited about China's drive towards electric vehicles, Beijing has announced it will extend the car restrictions that began ahead of the Olympics, reducing the city's fast growing private car population by a fifth
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Obama Girl Also Obsessed By Guys "Like Ed Begley"
Video for America's Greenest Campus Considering bigger concerns -- like "the most important climate and energy bill ever to hit Congress" -- the President doesn't want to get bogged down worrying about "the f--ing lightbulbs." Obama Girl ain't trying to
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China Reveals Plans for Green-Colored "Suburb City"
The bustling streets of Wuyang, a small, 4 million person city in the Chinese province of Jiangxi, epitomize China's slowing economy. Fleets of small cars chug past
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"Stop Doing Dumb Things!" Ted Turner on GM, CNN, at Columbia Climate Center Launch
In a lively discussion at New York's Columbia University today, media titan Ted Turner lamented the US auto industry's slow approach to green, promised to talk with Rupert Murdoch about the Wall Street Journal's skeptical take on climate change, and
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Guns? In Naples, the Mafia Kills With Toxic Waste
"See Naples and Die" In the new Italian film Gomorrah -- an arresting, documentary-like portrait of Italy's most powerful mafia element, the Camorra -- mobsters wreak havoc on Naples, leaving behind a trail of bodies in their quest to protect a 15
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Earth Hour in China: Bird's Nest and Watercube Go Dark
In one of the first cities to celebrate Earth Hour, Beijing saw the awesome Bird's Nest stadium and the Watercube aquatic center switch their lights off tonight. Yesterday Lloyd posted on a report in the Guardian that Chinese officials were urging
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Urban China Magazine: "An Encyclopedia of Chinese Cities in a Time of Junk"
"Urban China: Informal Cities," at the New Museum, New York. Photo: Benoit Pailley Urban China magazine may not make sense of China's rapid, mind-boggling urbanization. But the groundbreaking Chinese publication, which is featured in an exhibit at the
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Koolhaas To Open Harvard Conference on "Ecological Urbanism"
Harvard's conference next weekend on Ecological Urbanism, organized by the Graduate School of Design, might not normally raise many eyebrows. But it's got a big bold-faced name for a keynote speaker: Rem Koolhaas. The Dutch
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Stunning Green Buildings in China: A Slideshow
Put this in your smokestack: No country emits more greenhouse gases than China, and nothing emits more greenhouse gases in China than buildings. It's true that China's traditional
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China's Stunning Green Buildings
Gensler's super-tall, 128-story Shanghai Tower will be, for a moment at least, China's tallest building. It will also be highly green, featuring atriums and lush gardens in the tower, wind turbines on top, and a large green space below. The kicker in the
