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Crude Awakening-Globe and Mail Series
The Globe and Mail, Canada's major serious newspaper, has started a seven day series "Crude Awakening" about the effects of Peak Oil on Canada and the World. Articles today include Supply- Are Saudi reserves drying up? and Demand- the Unquenchable thirst
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Alternative to Copper Paint on Ship's Hulls
For ages, sailors have used copper-based paint to cover their hulls. The copper kills algae, barnacles and other sea creatures that attach themselves to the hull. Basically, it is so poisonous that nothing can withstand it. Unfortunately, the copper
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Brent Coomber's Fallen Branch Furniture
AAIIIIYYYEEE! There's something about seeing natural grain like this that makes want to wail like a camel herder. I couldn't get the variegated patterns out of my mind last night. You can click here to get a full look. Brent Coomber is a Vancouver-based
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IdleAir: An End To Truck Idling?
Many truckers will idle their trucks all night at truck stops, in order to run air conditioning and other appliances. When I first heard this, I couldn't quite believe it, since the fuel cost must be huge. Apparently it's not enough to stop the practice.
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Saving the Planet With Pesticides & Plastic
The Center for Global Food Issues is not a parody web site. Yet they are selling a book entitled Saving the Planet With Pesticides & Plastic. Quite audacious of them. Apparently the book is real, and it can be yours for $23.95. I'd actually like to
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The National Soy Ink Information Center
So you’ve been following TreeHugger for awhile, you know you want to turn your office into a green environment and one of the tips you’ve been looking for is where to get soy ink. Thanks to Chris L., we’ve got it. First, did you know that the American
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Birkenstock vs Birkenstock
We just love to see Treehuggers in the news. Today the Wall Street Journal talks about the Birkenstock scandal- "Dallas on the Rhine".It seems that the ex-wife of the Birkenstock heir has started selling her own version of the shoe and hubby doesn't like
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Sustaining tradition: OrÃgens 99.9%
One of our favourite restaurants here in Barcelona is Orígens 99.9%. The food is so delicious and the interiors look so healthy that I just assumed it was all organic, or rather 99.9% of it. Convinced that it would be my next post for Treehugger I
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Breezehouse Prefab at Sunset Celebration
Prefabs are great because so much less energy is consumed building them, so much less material is wasted and they are so much more airtight. One of the big drawbacks of modular construction is basically the cost of shipping so much air- some of the
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Guy spends 165 days swimming in Columbia River, has aquatic epiphany
Christopher D. Swain, an average man by his own description, discovered how interconnected we are with nature and how badly we treat her by swimming the Columbia River (largest river flowing into the Pacific Ocean in North-America). Herbicide baths
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Home Wind Turbines in the Fringe Suburbs
According to a recent Denver Post feature article, written as a human interest story, wind turbines are coming to the suburbs. A snip from the article: "The home, equipped with electric heat, was generating winter power bills of $400 a month. As soon as
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Branson wants MG Rover to make hybrids
A little more than a month ago, Sir Richard Branson, successful British entrepreneur and founder of Virgin, suggested in an article written for The Independent that England's government invest in collapsing British automaker MG Rover so that it could
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Jamie Kennedy picks Organic Wines
Jamie Kennedy runs one of the coolest and best restaurants in Toronto- a stunning wine bar where he cooks little treats from organic and local food. in this month's Greenliving magazine, he picks four top organic wines. None are local- "Organic
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Another battle in the war between cloth and disposable nappies
Sometimes it's hard to be a treehugger (it's hard work as Bush would say). You think that you're doing the right thing and then, bam! a new study with findings that nuance or downright contradict the results of the last one. Last December, we wrote this
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FBI Alert for Treehugger Wackos
We just had to screenshot that Sploid headline. Environmental and animal rights extremists who have turned to arson and explosives are the nation’s top domestic terrorism threat, the FBI has told lawmakers. Don't just worry about those foreigner types
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Envirope Hammocks
Warm weather is just about here for some of us, so we'll be heading out to lie on one of these with much gusto. Envirope hammocks are made from old soda bottles by members of Twin Oaks Community in Virginia. They sell them for $139.00. They also make
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EarthShade Natural Blinds
Earthshade makes a wide range of natural window shades out of non-toxic, rapidly renewable reeds, bamboos, grasses, and other natural plant fibers. These materials are gathered in Central and South America, where they are sun-dried and woven into
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Building Around Trees
Building around trees does require ingenuity, but really, that's the coolness of it.
