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Impossible No More: Worldchanging Quizzes Festival Goers on Our Changing Reality
With sustainability planting itself well-and-truly in the mainstream, many of us folks who've been plugging away at environmental issues for years are finding doors and ears opening where there used to be brick walls. From zero-carbon schools to
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City of Seattle Gives Bottled Water the Boot
First San Francisco banned it. Then Chicago started taxing it. Now, the city of Seattle is taking action against bottled water; last week, Mayor Greg Nickels signed an executive order to stop the city from buying bottled
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Seattle Kids Are Exploring Trees Inside And Out
Trees are the longest living and largest living organisms on earth. One acre of forest absorbs six tones of carbon dioxide and puts out four tones of oxygen. Trees are good noise barriers, making a city and neighborhood quieter. This is just the tip of
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Got Organic?
Fast way to get an unpleasant reaction from Mom? Come to dinner with mud on your face and hands. You're full of germs...eeeww. March right into the bath young man!
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Seen in Seattle: Pictures Speak Louder Than...
We've had a "Seen In " series going for a few years now, in which TreeHuggers post on a particular "eco-friendly" (ahem) product or topic that they randomly passed by on the street. This "Seen in Seattle" photo wasn't personally snapped
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In Seattle, A Ride On The S.L.U.T. Is Good For the Earth
Normally, when Paul Allen invests in something, he gets it right (exhibit A: co-founding Microsoft). But in the case of the Seattle trolley developed by Vulcan, his private asset management company, he got almost everything right. The trolley will be
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RGBG - Pedalling from Seattle to San Francisco for Affordable Green Housing
We have seen one or two examples of affordable sustainable housing, for example this apartment block in London or this $200,000 Oklahoma zero energy house, but overall environmentally sustainable architecture is still seen as somewhat of an elitist
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Meth Heads Go For Recycling
There are global
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Car-Sharing Bonanza: Zipcar and Flexcar Merge
Reports from both coasts are announcing that car-sharing companies Zipcar and Flexcar are going to merge. Technically, it looks like Boston-area-based Zipcar will absorb the smaller Seattle-based Flexcar; together, the new company will have 5,000
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BuyGreen: Sofas and Loveseats
TreeHugger is quite aware that we as a society can't sit back and shop our way to global sustainability; while buying greener products is a step in the right direction, it's not a cure-all or a behavior to engage in blindly, while writing off our other
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Live from Pop!Tech: Photographer Chris Jordan Says "Stats Ain't Cutting It"
Coming atcha from Pop!Tech. Catch it live -- hundreds of brainiacs eagerly consuming
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More GM Tinkering: Sticking Rabbit Genes into Poplars
A word of caution to those of you in the audience who deplore any- and everything GM-related: the content of this post may prove highly offensive/disturbing. Now that's not to say that TreeHugger approves of this type of genetic tinkering (in fact,
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No Trash Week: October 7 - October 13
No Trash Week starts today! Celebrate this week-long event by not creating any waste. Sound like a tall order? Eh, kinda, but with tips for dealing with the packaging, plastic and paper you encounter every day, projects to help you prepare -- like
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The Untapped Green Within Graying Buildings
We always say that renovation is the greenest form of construction; now we learn from Tilde Herrera of GreenerBuildings that it is a good investment, too. She writes about Seattles 80 year old Joseph Vance Building (covered in Treehugger earlier) and its
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Mithun Architects' Vertical Farm for Seattle
This evidently won "Best of Show" in the Cascadia Region Green Building Council's Living Building Challenge. It is a "Center for Urban Agriculture," a building, located on a .72-acre site, that includes fields for growing vegetables and grains,
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TreeHugger Radio: Greenland's Bounce-back, Norway's Organic Prison, and Seattle's Goats
This week, Jasmin Malik Chua looks at how Greenland’s melting glaciers are causing bedrock bounce-back, and what this means for earthquakes and volcanoes on the top of the world. Stan Cox tells how the go-go housing boom left America with an extra large
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Microsoft Launches Private Bus Service- Windows Included
Microsoft has introduced a 14 bus fleet to keep employees happy, out of bumper-to-bumper traffic, and reduce air pollution and traffic congestion. "It is a great corporate decision to take a look at where the transportation system isn't meeting the
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Bikestation - Providing the Facilities that Cyclists Deserve
Yesterday we brought you an inspiring video of a Bike Move, which basically consists of friends moving an entire household, couches, tables and all, using nothing but pedal power. Now BikeTV bring us another great example of bike culture, namely a
