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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Culture and Celebrity
Anyone who thinks that the importance of pop culture is limited to what Charlie Sheen tweeted yesterday and who's at the top of the pop charts is severely underestimating the impact that celebrities, events, music, films, books, art, and social media can
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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Fashion and Beauty (Slideshow)
What is the best DIY style site, the most fashion-forward casual brand, the greenest skin care line? Who is the chicest eco-fashionista to follow on Twitter?
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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Fashion and Beauty
What is the best DIY style site, the most fashion-forward casual brand, the greenest skin care line? Who is the chicest eco-fashionista to follow on Twitter? Vote for the Best of Green Readers' Choice Awards: Fashion and BeautyFashion and beauty are ever
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Design a Winning Reusable Towel and Win $500 -- Deadline Extended!
Every day, more than 3,000 tons of paper towel waste are produced in the United States alone—and this represents a huge environmental impact. For every ton of paper towels produced, 17 trees are cut down and 20,000
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Peter Calthorpe Explains Urbanism in an Age of Climate Change
In Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, Peter Calthorpe argues that by better understanding urbanism at a regional scale, cities could provide a powerful platform for addressing climate change.
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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Green Presidents (Video)
Clean energy technology, President Obama said in his 2011 State of the Union Address, is "our generation's Sputnik moment." And, though any mention of the climate was conspicuosly abscent, he went on to advocate for expanded use of renewables, stating
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Today on Planet 100: The Planet 100 Guide to Green Toys (Video)
Dangerous chemicals and toxins have a weird way of working themselves into the most unfortunate of places. Cosmetics, food containers, and even children's toys are known to contain parabens, BPA, phthalates, and other harmful compounds.
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Crowdsourced Design For an Ultra Low-Footprint Apartment: Clever Ideas from the LifeEdited Project (Slideshow)
How can we save money, radically reduce our environmental impact, and have a freer, less complicated life?
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Crowdsourced Design For an Ultra Low-Footprint Apartment: Clever Ideas from the LifeEdited Project
What if we could save money, radically reduce our environmental impact, and have a freer, less complicated life? That was the challenge laid forth by TreeHugger founder Graham Hill when he started LifeEdited, an online international design competition th
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Today on Planet 100: Test Driving the Nissan LEAF (Video)
The Nissan LEAF is being touted as the first affordable all electric vehicle for the mass market. Released just last month, some 20,000 eager EV drivers have already ordered a one through a unique online reservations program. Planet 100 hops in the
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Today on Planet 100: Top 7 Green Corporations of 2010 (Video)
Cutting up the credit cards is probably the greenest thing anyone could do but sometimes, buying new stuff—or patronizing a favorite restaurant—is necessary. When those times come, there's no reason to feel guilty—especially when
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Today on Planet 100: Quick Guide to the Mass Animal Die-Off (Video)
On New Year's Eve, thousands of birds fell from the sky in Arkansas. 100 miles away, 100,000 fish washed up on the shores of a river. In Louisiana, Kentucky, the Chesapeake Bay, England, Sweden, and Brazil, too, dead animals were found in mass
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Planet 100: Empowering Women With Design and Micro Enterprise (Video)
Women are some of the poorest people in the world yet their ability to prosper is key to the development of any community. One of the way to empower women is through fair trade micro-enterprise programs.Raven
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Planet 100: 5 Basic Green Resolutions for a New Year (Video)
The champagne has been popped and the confetti has, hopefully, been cleaned up but that doesn't mean it's too late to make some serious green resolutions for the new year.
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Planet 100: Is it Time to Solar the Sign? (Video)
The White House may have plans to reinstall solar panels on its roof but across the country another of the world's iconic landmarks is perfectly positioned to harness the energy of the sun.
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Planet 100: Top 10 Green Reads of the Last 10 Years (Video)
The publication of Silent Spring in 1962 is widely considered to be the birth of the modern environmental movement. Since those early roots took hold, a series of seminal books have contributed to its growth
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Planet 100: 5 Skyscrapers Pushing Green to Towering New Heights (Video)
There's no better way to fight urban sprawl, it seems, than to build up. Indeed, modern super-towers have the opportunity to become entire communities with space to live, work, shop, and relax.
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Sylvia Earle is TreeHugger's Person of the Year
When TreeHugger compiled a short list of contenders for the title of "Person of the Year" in 2010, we knew it would be difficult to choose a single winner. Everyone on the shortlist, we agreed, deserved some recognition.
