Tag: Chile

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  Chilean Glacier Ice Heist Lands Thieves in Hot Water

  Authorities say that this is the first case they've seen involving hot ice.

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  Massive Wildfire Burns 30,000 Acres of Chilean Patagonia

  Authorities say that the devastating fire, which was only contained with the help of some 500 firefighters, was initially ignited by a tourist who simply failed to fully extinguish a toilet-paper roll he was burning.

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  Chilean National Park Closes in Face of Raging Wildfire

  Wildfires have already destroyed 4% of the Torres del Paine National Park, endangering local wildlife shutting down one of the country's top tourist destinations.

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  Chilean Glacier Recedes Half-Mile in Just One Year

  Unlike severe weather or other anomalies in climate patterns which can often seem like one-off events, these images of a receding glacier offer evidence that detrimental changes to our planet's health do not just lie before us, but are well underway.

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  Transformed Plum Pits, Barley, Weeds, and More: 10 Innovative Products from Chilean Sustainable Design Contest

  The results are in for the annual Remade in Chile design contest.

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  Chilean Designer Develops Material with Discarded Pits and Pulp from the Plum Industry

  Around 47 thousand tons of plum pits and pulp are discarded every year in Chile. A young designer turned it into gardening products.

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  Recycled Shipping Containers As Disaster Response: School Built In Four Weeks After Earthquake

  Shipping containers continue to prove their value to build almost anything, from amazing office buildings to houses to even boy scout cabins.

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  Zero Electricity Lighting With Plastic Bottles, Taken From Brazil To Chile (Video)

  Almost ten years ago, during a blackout, a man from the Uberaba region in the outskirts of Minas Gerais, Brazil, invented a way to lighten the interior of houses during the day using plastic bottles filled with water and a bit

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  Fair Trade, Artisan Hand Woven Wicker Lamps And Furniture From Chile

  Photos: Paula Alvarado. Made in mimbre is another great example of fruitful collaborations between designers and traditional craftsmen, so common in Latin America over the past years (with cases like Quinua in Argentina or Oficina Nomade in Brazil, to

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  Organic Beeswax, Play Dough Tea Cups From Chile To Reflect On Our Relationship With Objects

  With the goal of investigating the emotional attachment of people with objects, Chilean designer Mariana Tocornal experiments with biodegradable materials such as beeswax and play dough in these haunting and "not conventionally

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  Low Energy Astrophysics, a Greener Science

  Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. Photo: Wikipedia, CC Green Manifesto for Astrophysicists In absolute numbers, astrophysicists are few, and their equipment and travels don't pollute that much. But as individuals, they use

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  TreeHugger Joins 5 Gyres To Sail The South Pacific In Search Of Plastic Pollution

  Although one could argue every single thing on the planet is related, ocean plastic pollution seems to have little to do with the recent 8.9

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  Earthquake-Prone Chile Won't Give Up Nuclear Plans Yet

  Although Latin American countries rely lightly on nuclear power (only Argentina, Brazil and Mexico have plants, which represent only 2% of the region's energy

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  PET Bottles Recycled Into Bright Lamps, Table Legs, Flower Pots In Chile

  Motivated by a workshop at the Chilean Catholic University during her studies, designer Sofia Montero developed ADN PET: a line of products from tops and bottoms of recovered PET bottles.

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  Craziest Bike Rides... EVER! Really, I mean it!

  Warning! Motion Sickness AlertThere are times when you come to TreeHugger for analysis of the latest transit ridership numbers from the Department of Transportation, and there are times when you just want to see really crazy bike rides. Now's the time

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  Minimal Impact, Maximum Function At Rural Dining Room In Chile

  Asked to design a dining room so that workers from the Chilean countryside could have their meals under some shadow and with more comfort, architect Javier Rodriguez Acevedo came up with this simple design that uses

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  Randomly Placed Solar Panels, Green Second Skin Give Stunning Look To Hotel In Chile

  Designed as an apartment venue and later turned into a hotel, GEN is a 26-storey building designed by Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido located in Santiago de Chile with the usual green credentials but with two cool details:

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  Adorable Piggies Rescued From Factory Farm Celebrate Four Months Of Freedom In Chile (Photos)

  Vegan activism in South America is not as extended as in the northern hemisphere (or, at least, not as communicated), perhaps because horrifying factory farming practices took more time to come here.