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Walking: An Equal-Opportunity Answer to Traffic Congestion, From New York to New Delhi

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Crossing the street in Delhi can be a tricky proposition. Photo by [Satbir] via Flickr. With just 139 cars for every 1,000 residents -- compared to 209 in New York City, and a whopping 765 in the United States as a whole -- many parts of Istanbul are already clogged with traffic. More residents name congestion as a problem than any other concern -- although 80 percent of those without a car say they...

Pesticide-Soaked 'Wallpaper' Cuts Malaria Exposure, Safer Than Spraying

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Mosquito on the wall. Image credit: DesertUSA. To lower mosquito exposure in malaria-prone places there are two basic pesticide use strategies. The half-century old approach - a remnant of 1950's era thinking - is to spray entire towns, as well as the surrounding countryside, with a pesticide such as DDT or pyrethrin. Washingon DC-area Think tanks seem enamored of those spray-glory days, in spite...

The Climate Clock and Copenhagen

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Bonfire Image credit: Wikipedia For those concerned about global warming, all eyes are on December's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The stakes could not be higher. Almost every new report shows that the climate is changing even faster than the most dire projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their 2007 report. Yet from my vantage point at Earth Policy...

Community Planning for Peak Oil: This Doesn't Look So Dark (video)

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Image credit: Transition Whidbey I posted on Friday about Worldchanging's critic of the Dark Side of Transition Towns , in which Alex Steffen argued that the Transition Town movement is effectively burying its head in the sand—promoting ineffectual, perhaps folksy [I paraphrase], individual action instead of systemic or political change, and maybe even gleefully anticipating a social collapse....

Green Living: Leading by Example or Passive Aggressive Preaching?

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Image credit: South Park / Comedy Central As I noted in my post on The Art of the Eco-argument , we're often better off leading our own lives than telling others how to lead theirs. In fact, if eco-snobbery is left unchecked , it could lead to a major backlash against the environmental movement. But, having recently noted some negative reactions to folks who are very m... Read the full story on TreeHugger...

Vegetarian's Rebuttal to 'The Carnivore's Dilemma'

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Eat Me. You might possibly, perhaps be doing something good for the environment. Credit: Ethicurean Last week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled " The Carnivore's Dilemma "--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenhouse gasses (not least amongst these voices is Michael Pollan, author...

Space Tourism Lifts Off: 2012 Space Resort Launch

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Photo via Exclusive Lifestyle . Artist's rendering of the Galactic Suite Space Resort. You think you'd find the Galactic Suite Space Resort in a cartoon, comic strip or kitschy hotel in Disney World, right? Wrong. Whether you like it or not, it's real, and plans to open its super-future-like doors to paying guests in 2012. Don't confuse this hotel however, with Read the full story on TreeHugger

'Fashion Delivers' $1.2 Million to Victims of Natural Disasters

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Barney's Simon Doonan and Sesame Workshop's Gary Knell at Fashion Delivers/ K.I.D.S. gala in NYC. Credit: Thomas Iannaccone, Via WWD Fashion Delivers , a non-profit organization that supplies victims of natural disasters with donated product, and Kids In Distressed Situations, Inc. (K.I.D.S.) raised almost $1.2 million dollars at their annual charity gala Read the full story on TreeHugger

• K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers Gala Raises $1.2M - Women's Wear Daily

Wash your clothes by pedaling your bike (with video)

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Credit: Dave Askins, homelessdave.com . You don't need electricity to do the laundry. It's as easy as riding a bike. My wife's 90-year-old aunt still washes her laundry by hand, and dries it with a wringer. God bless her. But if you're a little busier, you can keep your clothes clean with pedal power. GreenovationTV has a segment on the low-tech solution.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

• Wash your clothes by pedaling your bike (with video) - Brainicane

Voices from Hopenhagen: Copenhagen With an "H," by Tham Khai Meng of Ogilvy & Mather

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Images courtesy of Hopenhagen/Ogilvy & Mather. This guest post was written by Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather , as part of the Voices from Hopenhagen series. In explaining the genesis of the name " The Beatles ," John Lennon famously wrote, "A Man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them 'From this day on, you are Beatles with an A.'" With...

• Copenhagen with an “H” - TakePart Social Action Network™

C.K. Prahalad, Kraft Going Green(ish) and The COP15 Lead Up in Barcelona

Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday

A weekly wrap up of green and socially minded business news from the gang at TriplePundit.com . Warrior Film-making: The Story of Free Range Studios - Startup Friday features the makers of The Meatrix today and the trials and tribulations of launching a media enterprise with... Read the full story on TreeHugger

A Garden Blooms Inside a Concrete Cloverleaf

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In the loop: a botanical garden inside a highway interchange (inset). Photos via Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanical Garden (inset) and the Istanbul Governor's Office . A botanical garden inside an "urban void" -- the loop of a busy highway's cloverleaf interchange -- has been recognized by Deutsche Bank as a creative solution to the problems facing residents of Turkey's largest city, and...

The Modern Green Movement Explained in Diagrams (VIDEO)

Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday

There's so much going on in the modern green movement that it can be hard to grasp where the whole thing is heading, and how bloggers in Australia, activists in Africa, scientists in the US, and so on, are all stitched together. This segment from Current TV offers a nice, straightforward attempt to lay out the battle plan in simple terms. Check it out in the video after the jump.... Read the full...

Buy Some Time with Your Favorite Celebrity, Eat Like Elizabeth Hurley, and More

Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday

Photo via Celebrity Gossip Plenty of celebrities are willing to donate their money to green causes, but this week, you can catch up with others who've agreed to donate their time by offering up lunches, set visits, and front-row tickets in auctions for two different celebrity causes. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

PETA Teams Up With Glenn Beck

Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday

Okay, so you're probably just as tired of seeing Glenn Beck's mug grace TreeHugger as I am--but this is more newsworthy on PETA's end than the never-ending stream of Glenn-Beck-said-something-ridiculous-again. And it's newsworthy because PETA's president voluntarily showed up on Beck's show to join him, uniting for a common cause: making fun of Al Gore. Video of the baffling event after the jump:...

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