Tag: One Planet Living

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  One of The World's Greenest Developers, Britain's Bioregional Quintain, Shutting Down

  As Will Alsop says, "It is very sad news. This was a company very committed to doing things in a more responsible way."

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  6 Child Environmentalists That Have Already Changed the World

  Sometimes it takes the simple clarity of a child to change the world as we know it.

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  8 Year Old Kenzie Proves Weekday Rainfall Declining

  Image: 8 year old Kenzie Brown with her Science Project, photo from Josh Brown, Kenzie's Father We Affect Weather? Do you ever have the feeling it always seems to rain on the weekends but not on the weekdays? So did 8 year old Kenzie Brown, of Phoenix,

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  Artist Poster Campaign Sends Powerful Green Messages (Slideshow)

  Can a poster change the world? We've covered them a lot on TreeHugger: The newest batch comes from the the Canary Project, which brought together a Who's Who of contemporary artists for their take on issues

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  Artist Poster Campaign Sends Powerful Green Messages

  Can a poster change the world? We've covered them a lot on Treehugger, from Food Posters From the Past are Recipes for the Present to Posters from the Past that Can Guide Us in the Future. The Canary Project brought together a Who's Who of contemporary a

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  Lessons in Design from the Architects of American Democracy

  Inscribed on Thomas Jefferson's tombstone at Monticello are the words: "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious

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  Want to Feel More Alive? Study Shows You Need to Go Outside

  We kind of already know this - if not intuitively then through past studies - but a new study has shown that when you spend more time out in nature, you feel more alive. Published in this month's issue of the Journal of

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  Stephen Hawking Warns That Aliens May Be Like Us

  For Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most renowned scientists, there's little doubt that life exists elsewhere in the universe. The question then is what such beings would be like and whether or not we should extend an

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  Cult of Consumerism at Root of Planet's Environmental Degradation & Destruction

  The Worldwatch Institute's State of the World 2010 report has just been released and takes square aim at what's at the root of the planet's current environment woes, be it climate change, biodiversity loss, natural

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  Trudie Styler talks Crude about Oil in Ecuador

  Photo Credit: Juan Diego Pérez Trudie Styler is many things - a UNICEF ambassador, a human rights activist, a co-founder of Rainforest Foundation and, of course, the wife of the musician Sting. In September, she came to the big screen (or more likely

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  TED Talk: Josh Silver Demonstrates Ultra-Utilitarian Liquid-Filled Eyeglasses

  Nearly a year ago we talked about Josh Silver, an inventor working to bring affordable eye glasses to everyone in the world who needs them. He invented a set of glasses where the prescription can be easily changed by

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  World Population to Hit 7 Billion by 2011, New Stats Show

  Here's a

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  Nature Find Helps Urbanites Sniff Out Green Spaces

  I grew up in a small California town in the hills of northern Santa Barbara County, surrounded by oak trees and tons of open space where it didn't take much of a drive to get well away from people and into the nooks and crannies

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  The World in 200 Years According to Pete Alcorn (Video)

  Kids might not need to fear the apocalypse after all. At least, that's what Pete Alcorn thinks. According to Alcorn, we have a hopeful future, because we're just about 150 years away from a new enlightenment. Check out his

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  Maker Faire 09: The Bigger Picture of Remaking a Sustainable America

  The bigger theme behind this year's Maker Faire is an excellent one, and one that every TreeHugger can appreciate. The call is to remake America into a sustainable place to live, and thrive. And, wandering through the various

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  Greener By Design 2009: It's Not Just Consumers Driving Businesses to Change

  What exactly are the drivers pushing businesses to go green these days. While we often like to think it's consumers and their growing eco-awareness, there's

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  World Population Growth Good News: Asia-Pacific Fertility Rates Starting to Decline

  Undeniably human population growth is at the root of pretty much every single environmental problem we currently face. At the

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  Greener by Design 2009: What the Heck is GreenOps Recyclables Tracking?

  Floating around Greener by Design are boxes like the one above. They sport the GreenOps logo, which puts in place a very interesting tracking system for recyclables that might just be the next wave in recycling transparency.