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Proposed Biofuel Project in Kenya Would Produce More Emissions Than Fossil Fuels
People living on the coast of Kenya are
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Guy Gets First Ever Mosquito-Borne STD, Gives it to Wife
digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/guy-contracts-first-ever-insect-borne-std-gives-it-to-wife.php'; Passing on an STD to your wife is not necessarily the kind of thing you
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Feeding the World With Rocks: Raised Bed Keyhole Gardens in Africa (Video)
My manifesto for lazivores and work-free gardening may have revealed a certain lazy streak in me, but even I am not averse to putting in a little work if it means reaping major rewards later on. From building a no-dig garden to
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Saving Ethiopia's 'Church Forests': Embattled Islands of Biodiversity in a Denuded Landscape
Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians, who believe in creating a living symbol of the garden of Eden around their places of worship, have nurtured some 35,000 'church forests' -- many of them islands of green growth in an almost entirely deforested landscape.
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Brand Jamming Contest to Demand Hershey's End Child Labor, Human Rights Abuses
There's been a lot of attention paid to fair trade chocolate and to the underlying child and forced labor issues involved in chocolate production. But one of the slowest companies to act on these issues is Hershey's
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Sahara Desert Shows Off Surprisingly Colorful Landscapes
Photo by NASA/Michael Taylor, Landsat Science Project Office NASA's EarthObservatory is featuring this amazing photo this week, of Tassili n'Ajjer National Park in southeastern Algeria. What you're looking at is a huge area of raised rocks that jut from
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11 Climbers Take on Mt Kilimanjaro to Raise $75,000 For Clean Water in Africa
Yesterday, a team of eleven climbers began a week long summit of Tanzania's Mt Kilimanjaro, in an effort to raise nearly $75,000 for The Water School, an international non-profit dedicated
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Canadian Celebrates World Water Day By Using Just 25 Liters of Water, 8% of North American Average
Yesterday was World Water Day, but one man in Canada is stretching the day out and is dedicating the month of March to raising awareness of water scarcity. He's limiting his water consumption to 25 liters a day for all
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Congo Rejects UK Bid to Drill for Oil in World's Only Remaining Mountain Gorilla Habitat
This doesn't seem a victory so much as common sense, but these days those aren't mutually exclusive. The Democratic Republic of Congo's Environment Minister Jose Endundo has rejected a bid by UK oil firm Soco International to
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Burro Brings Sustainable Power to Ghana's Poor
In Ghana, where electricity reaches only about 16 percent of people outside major cities, residents rely heavily on batteries -- to power the flashlights, radios, and cell phones that allow
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Powerful Sweet Crude Film Documents Protests Against Oil Extraction in the Niger Delta (Video)
The first ever San Francisco Green Film Festival launched this weekend and with an impressive line-up of environmental documentaries, not the least of which was a powerful film called Sweet Crude. It is the story of the oil
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Great Green Wall of Africa Given Green Light - Billions in Funding Pledged
For some time we've had our eyes on proposals to build a monumental wall of trees across Africa to hopefully stop or at least slow the Sahara spreading southward. Well, the Great Green Wall has been given the green light. As Mongabay reports, in total
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Solar Superheroes Wanted: Win a Trip to Africa (Video)
From solar transforming school performance in East Africa to creating hundreds of solar entrepreneurs in developing countries, the work of Solar Aid tackles development, clean energy and climate change at the same time. They
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Baby Gorilla 'Tiny' Takes First Wobbly Steps and Stumbles at the London Zoo (Video)
Staff and visitors at the London Zoo got a special Valentine's Day treat that they've shared with the public in an awwww-inducing video: Witnessing the first steps of a three-month-old gorilla, the first born at the zoo in 20 years.
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Namibia Designates Its Entire 976-Mile Coastline a National Park
Namibia has long embraced the idea that tourism can fund conservation. It's had some notable success with the strategy; the nation succeeded in stabilizing a once-endangered population of lions. Now, Namibia is upping the ante -- it just designated its
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Indigenous Communities Fighting For Land Rights More Than Ever - Governments & Corporations Fighting Back
A new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has some good news and bad news. The good: recognition of land and resource rights for indigenous populations has been on the rise in recent years, but the bad:
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Shell Denies Allegations in Nigeria, Where an Exxon Valdez-sized Spill Occurs Annually
Despite a long history of blatant environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria, Shell denied in a Dutch public hearing this week allegations of using "nontransparent, inconsistent and misleading figures" regarding the causes of oil
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3 Park Rangers, 5 Soldiers in Killed in Gorilla Habitat in Congo
Funeral services were held yesterday for three park rangers and five soldiers who were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while trying to secure a safe public passage in the Congolese side of Virunga National Park, where the
