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Artists Turn Water Into Masterpieces (Slideshow)
The myriad and sometimes contradictory qualities of water -- both life-giving and destructive, powerful and serene, a barrier and a bond between people -- make it a fertile subject for fine art, as you'll see in these works.
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Preview: Rhodes Ecofilms Festival Begins This Week
New films about Canada's tar sands, the damage caused by extractive industries in the Amazon rainforest, and Aristotle's philosophy on nature will be among the opening-day fare
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Cement Makers, Worldwide, Volunteer 25% Cutback in CO2 Emissions
In the back and forth of setting emission cut-back 'best practices,' it's a common response for industry, sensing stingent regulations are just around the corner, to 'volunteer'
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7 Popular Tourist Destinations to See Before it's Too Late
There's a new kind of eco-tourist on the prowl, one who seeks out the places and experiences threatened by global warming: the climate tourist. The following seven popular tourist destinations may not be the world's most
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Eco Films to Screen in Greece: Submit By March 1
Once famed as the home of a 100-foot-tall statue of the Greek god Helios, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the island of Rhodes is these days
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A Green Retreat on a Greek Island
When you live in a place where three-fourths of the population makes its living from tourism, it only makes sense to try to preserve what people come to enjoy. At the popular beach destination of Kos, one of Greece’s Dodecanese
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Two on Poo Power: Netherlands and Greece Do Wonders With Waste
It's safe to say that TreeHugger loves poo power. Not just because of the nice alliteration and an excrement reference that draws your eye, but because it completes a waste cycle, creating energy from substances that would
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Head Lice: The Latest Superbug to Become Resistant to Pesticides
While drug companies continue to say its not happening, school nurses around the country are saying more and more parents are at a loss for solutions, reports MSNBC. One nurse even reported a parent, whose child has been
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Two Small Renewable Energy Firsts: Offshore Wind Power in Germany, Solar Photovoltaic in Greece
Recently when I presented the news of the world’s largest thin-film solar power plant and commented that, at 10 MW, it wasn’t really all that big and sometimes we watchers of the renewable energy industry
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Drought Around The World: Atlanta In Perspective
It's been raining a bit in the US Southeast, adding a few feet of depth to Atlanta Georgia's severely depleted drinking water reservoir, Lake Lanier, and pulling the region out of the very worst drought category. Every little bit helps. But this is
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Kate Humble Supports Endangered Mediterranean Sea Turtles
Earlier this year, British TV broadcaster Kate Humble teamed up with the Travel Foundation and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) to urge UK tour operator representatives to encourage turtle-friendly tourist behaviour at Mediterranean holiday
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Backfire: Constitutional Forest Protection in Greece May Promote Arson to Abet Land Developers (or "Forests Don't Vote")
While the Greek Church may be home to one of the greenest religious leaders, forest conservation measures provided for in the Greek Constitution may be backfiring. Earlier this month, before last weekend's fires in Greece threatened to engulf the
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September 1: Eastern Orthodox Earth Day and The Green Patriarch
Since 1989, every September 1st (the beginning of the ecclesiastical calendar) has been designated as a day of prayer for "the protection of the environment" throughout the Eastern Orthodox Church consisting of some 300 million Christians worldwide.
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A Picture is Worth... Greek Fires From Space
The news around the world are full of stories about forest fires (and sometimes the possible links between global warming and their intensity and frequency). Here's a photo that gives some perspective on the size of the fires in Greece. High-Resolution
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Small Grecian Village Demonstrates Problem with Coal
Arkini is a village in northern Greece about two miles from the country's largest lignite-fired electricity, which, according to the
