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Prostitutes Offer Free Sex at Climate Summit in Copenhagen
Photo: Wikipedia On the Lighter Side... What Happens in Copenhagen Stays in digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/prostitutes-in-copenhagen-cop15-free-sex-climate-summit.php';Copenhagen What will take place in Copenhagen over the next few
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COP15 in Pictures - Day One (Slideshow)
Based on the calendar COP15 is just starting to get going, but based on all the buzzing activity both inside the Bella Center itself and on the streets of Copenhagen it's going to be a wild two weeks.
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Climate Bottom Meeting Puts Spotlight on Communities, Traditional Knowledge & Climate Change
Since the chances of getting one of the few available tickets to the opening plenary session of COP15 over at the Bella Center seemed thin (and the odds of anything radically new being said even thinner) I headed over to
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Hansen Was Right: Cap and Trade Isn't the Solution
Climate change scientist James Hansen plans to boycott the Copenhagen summit in protest of proposed cap and trade plans. Photo by World Development Movement via Flickr. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to
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The Catwalk at COP15: Sustainable Fashion Design Competition in Copenhagen (Video)
With all eyes focused on Copenhagen this week--the Climate Change Conference starts tomorrow(!)--the Danish fashion industry took the opportunity to showcase green design with
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News from Mother Jones: The World's First Climate Refugees
The island nation of Tuvalu is sinking. Its residents are already seeking a new home, making them the world's first climate refugees. Read Rachel Morris' riveting account of her visit to a community of Tuvaluans who have fled to New Zealand--a sneak
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Let's Hope the Sideline COP15 Events Overwhelm the Main Show... Fill Your Calendar Here
With all the non-official COP15 events scheduled for the next few weeks the actual negotiations, whatever the outcome, almost seem like a sideshow. Which in a way is a good thing, considering that what we really need now,
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If People with Lawnmowers Were Treated Like Cyclists
Anyone who watches Mad Men is aware of the dangers of lawnmowers; in the UK, 6,500 people are injured every year by them. Yet there are no big lawnmower safety campaigns. Many bike advocates think that cycling safety campaigns, helmets and separate
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Cute Copenhagen Cargo Bike Storage System
There are a lot of cargo bikes in Copenhagen, and they take up a lot of space to park. Since they take the attitude there that bikes are better than cars in cities, they take away a parking space for one car to make
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Voices from Hopenhagen: Copenhagen With an "H," by Tham Khai Meng of Ogilvy & Mather
In explaining the genesis of the name "The Beatles," John
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Road to Copenhagen: Is a 'politically-binding' agreement worthless or a path to progress?
From all I can gather, the actual on-paper negotiations are moving this week, progressing in some way towards some kind of agreement. (We'll get to what kind of agreement soon.) But we wouldn't have much way of knowing,
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Top 5 posts from Barcelona Climate Talks This Week
All eyes are on the city of Barcelona this week, as the last round of climate talks take place before the campaign roadshow moves onto to its final destination in Copenhagen in December. So what advances have the international delegates made this week?
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Road to Copenhagen: No Senate Bill Before Copenhagen, What's Next?
Well that's settled. There won't be a Senate bill before Copenhagen. Which means a lot of things: the US won't have concrete numbers on mitigation targets and finance commitments before COP15 convenes; the difficult job of
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Road to Copenhagen: Waiting for America
As the last round of "intersessional" climate talks before Copenhagen opened yesterday in Barcelona, all eyes were looking in the same direction they were when we left Bangkok three weeks earlier: at the United
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No Bike Thieves in Copenhagen, it Seems. They're Testing Painted-On Bike Parkings!
Photo: Mikael at Copenhagenize But Would it Work Anywhere Else? We love Copenhagen (and Copenhagen seems to like TreeHugger too...). They're doing a lot of things right, especially when it comes to encouraging cycling. They even go as far as to build
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News From Mother Jones: October 29 - Why Did It Take Us So Long to Start Fixing the Climate?
Look, TreeHuggers, a fun widget! Put your kid on our cover. Or your cat. Or your dog. Or your weird witch doll. Go crazy here.
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The War on Cyclists and Pedestrians is Getting Ugly
That's Kylie Bruehler at a memorial service for her parents, killed while riding on the shoulder of a highway by a pickup truck that somehow drifted off the road, hit them from behind and dragged them two
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Obama Went to Copenhagen. Will He Go Again in December?
Environmentalists are all a flutter with the news that President Obama brought his lead negotiator on climate change, Todd Stern, with him on his trip to Copenhagen to lobby for the 2016 Summer Olympics in his hometown of Chicago. The
