Tag: Treehugger Picks
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TreeHugger Picks: Won't Get Fooled Again
1) The Green Life published its "Don’t Be Fooled: America’s Ten Worst Greenwashers" report, which contains their list of those trying to fool us about their green efforts, documenting the scope, content and impact of the nation’s most egregious cases of
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TreeHugger Picks: Cradle to Cradle-Certified Products
Embodying a variety of sustainability options -- "using environmentally safe and healthy materials; design for material reutilization, such as recycling or composting; the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency" and several more -- William
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TreeHugger Picks: Electronic Reading with E-Books and Readers
As Mike mentioned earlier today, in the green smackdown between reading online vs. reading dead tree publications, the answer is: it depends, on a lot of things. Fair enough, but when it comes to bringing books and the like into the electronic world,
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TreeHugger Picks: Get a Taste of Slow Food
1) Sometimes it takes a slow cooker to get the most from slow
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TreeHugger Picks: Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
1) When searching for
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TreeHugger Picks: Bottled Water
1) To calculate the true costs of
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TreeHugger Picks: Smart Packaging Design
Often, we see poor examples of packaging design that lead to more junk for us to deal with and more waste in the landfill. In the spirit of taking your own bags to the grocery store, here are some picks for packaging that does a more than just wrap up
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TreeHugger Picks: Gingerbread Green Building
The weather outside may be frightful, but that doesn't mean your gingerbread architecture has to be. Just in time for prime gingerbread housebuilding season, here are our picks for the best in gingerbread green building (and remember, many come with
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TreeHugger Picks: Organic Food is Better
1) First of all, what goes in (and, perhaps more
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TreeHugger Picks: Saving Some Precious Water
1) If the recent ongoing droughts in the US can teach us anything, hopefully it's that they, along with other extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change are also making fresh water an increasingly scarce commodity. In fact, the struggle over
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TreeHugger Picks: Telecommuting
1) A lot of modern jobs consist of sitting in front of a computer all day, sometimes emailing or instant messaging the person in the next cubicle and phoning someone down the hall. All of this could be done from home, thanks to the internet, with many
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TreeHugger Picks: Ban the Bag
Plastic bags make a big, persistent mess when they get left where they don't belong or get trashed in a landfill. Thankfully, we're learning to stay away from them (and designing greener alternatives); here are some of TreeHugger's picks for those
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TreeHugger Picks: Baseball Getting Greener
1) The Cincinatti Reds started the
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TreeHugger Picks: Far-Out Fuels for the Future
1) If you're still wondering about the relative benefits of ethanol, biodiesel, straight veggie oil and other
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TreeHugger Picks: Afternoon Movie Matinee with Free Range Studios
The folks at Free Range Studios have been entertaining and educating (entercating? edutaining? hmm...) for years with their clever flash-animation and live action vids about the intricacies of agro-politics and industrial agriculture. Check out
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TreeHugger Picks: Heard It Through the Grape Vine
While drinking organic wines is one of TreeHugger's favorite ways to enjoy the fruits of the earth without harming the planet, wine an its derivatives are good for so much more. Here are some of our picks that go beyond simply drinking the sweet
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TreeHugger Picks: Bicycle Storage Options
1) The cute
