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  • Scientists Build A Better Leaf?

    Photosynthesis in plants utilizes a complex arrangement of proteins, enzymes, and other chemical components to turn electromagnetic energy from the sun into chemical energy for the plant. Evolution has resulted in photosynthetic pathways that are

  • Climate Change in Africa May Have Driven Early Human Evolution

    We've known now for a long time that humanity's earliest roots could be traced back to Africa. Indeed, it is thought that around 70,000 years ago early human populations first began to expand and leave the African continent to spread out across the

  • The Shift Movie: The Next Stage in Human Evolution?

    It seems there's no shortage of environmental movies coming out these days, either chronicling the dire situation we find ourselves in, or mapping out things we can do about it. We've seen Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth winning an Oscar, we've

  • Evolution, Accelerated

    Scientists have mostly discussed and understood evolution as a process whose effect can only be ascertained over the course of thousands, if not millions of years. In essence, evolution is defined as a change in a population's genetic composition over

  • What If Darwin Did Davos?

    Who has not seen an email the with "Darwin Award" nominees listed? It's a yearly staple of the very oldest net-buddy distribution lists. For those of you not privileged enough to have received one, the motto on the Darwin Awards website is: "We

  • Ontario Courier Service Provides Greener Alternative

    Kingston, Ontario business owners Charles Lapointe and Isabelle Racine wanted their small package delivery service, Go Local Courier, to stand out from the other companies offering similar services in town. So, in addition to adopting a professional look

  • The Teastick: Never Toss Another Tea Bag

    Not long ago, we brought you the made-over tea bag, and it caused quite a stir, so we thought we'd take one more step and cut the disposable out of the equation. The producers of the Teastick boast that "this is what happens when designers and

  • TreeHugger Picks: Diaper Dandies

    Which is best: flushable, biodegradable, washable or nothing at all? We haven't been able to come to a clear consensus about diapers just yet, so we submit the best alternative to old-fashioned disposables and let the chips fall where they may. What is

  • TreeHugger TV: Episode 3 - Farm To The Table

    We’re really getting on a THTV roll now with episode 3 - Farm to the table. This week TreeHugger and m ss ng p eces bring you the first in a three part series on the organic process of farm to table living, THTV interviews Jack Algiers. Jack is the

  • Volvo Premiers Hybrid System for Trucks and Busses

    After last week's post on Volvo's plans for a second carbon-neutral factory, someone was kind enough to point out the irony of a CO2-free truck plant that still makes conventional trucks. Well, the irony was not lost and Volvo announced this week a

  • Animated Climate Model By Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

    This is a still image from an animated, long-range climate model by the US Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL/NOAA). Here's the animated link. The frames step through future quite rapidly, so be sure to play the animation several times to

  • Wooden Briefcase

    In pursuit of new applications for wood, this briefcase was created by industrial designer Takumi Shimamura and it's made with "ecologically thinned" Japanese cedar. The briefcase is designed to accomodate laptops, and it is handmade by Japanese

  • 58 Lustron Homes Being Given Away

    Lustron Homes were the "The House America Has Been Waiting For" post WW2- the all-steel manufactured wonders that were going to revolutionize the housing industry. They did not for a number of reasons- they were built like tanks and the developers made

  • Treehugger World Headquarters Exposed

    Drat, the secret is out. We pretend to be virtual with contributors all over the world but really there are a bunch of suits parked in suites between Gawker and Huff Post. Fortunately there is no mention of us by name in ::New York

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