Treehugger (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Number of people injured by fireworks in 2006: 9,200 Dollar amount of fireworks imported to the US from China in 2006: 212 million Dollar amount of American flags imported into the US from China in 2006: 5 million More in 4th of July by the Numbers ...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
image via: blog.communiquepr.com We've been hearing a lot about the decline of print media . Some call the lessening demand a crisis, as it results in a reduction of jobs within the major media organizations who have become large employers, as well as the loss of an iconic and nostalgic door delivery service. Others agree that one of the most avoidable waste streams is now undergoing a positive and...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Image: Wild Wonders of Europe , detail of European bee eater, by Markus Varesvuo Our friends at Wild Wonders of Europe have proudly announced the appearance of a collection of photos capturing some of Europe's rare and awesome wildlife in National Geographic . Don't miss these am...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Happy, healthy & sustainable: Green countries scored the highest, yellow and orange in between, red the worst. Image via happyplanetindex.org . What if, instead of comparing different countries on the basis of things like GDP, we measured the health, happiness and ecological footprint of people living in those countries? Would the map look different – or does economic well-being encompass...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Image: Flickr, David Tolnem Is Your Gas Leaking? What does natural gas smell like? If you said, "rotten eggs," think again. Natural gas is completely odorless. The stink that alerts you to a leaky stove or bad connection on the barbecue grill is an additive. The sulfur-based additive is put in natural gas on purpose, to avoid the countless deaths and destruction that undetected gas leaks...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Image credit: UMBI Center of Marine Biotechnology Fully Contained, Indoor Fish Farming The dire state of global fish stocks is pretty well known by now - with costs of poor management of fish stocks running to $50 billion a year . Yet what's the alternative? Sea-based fish farming c...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Image credit: Autoblog Green Comet trialling free EV charging Every time we talk about electric vehicles (EVs), nay sayers always bring up the question of range - after all, how can a car with a range of 100 or 150 miles hope to compete with the internal combustion engine? Of course, advocates for EVs argue that the vast majority of journeys are short trips to work or to the store that can be achieved...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
A vegetable garden outside Istanbul's thousand-year-old city walls. In the shadow of Istanbul's old city walls, enterprising urban farmers have carved out small plots of land to grow vegetables, adding a welcome bit of greenery to the roadside as they make, or at least contribute to, their own livelihoods. Green-thumbs in the capital city of Ankara once had a similar opportunity -- before the land...
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Toby Barlow writes about making Detroit a city for cyclists instead of cars. While bike enthusiasts in most urban areas continue to have to fight for their place on the streets, Detroit has the potential to become a new bicycle utopia. New York Times An online debate: This house believes that sustainable development is unsustainable. The Economist ...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
photo: MetroShip Larger boats can have a tremedous impact on the planet, so former prefab construction powerhouse David Ballinger has turned his attention to the water. His new design attempts to combat the conventional wisdom regarding houseboats. MetroShip is a sleek, more sustainable reinterpretation of those clunking houseboats of yesteryear....
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Can Al Gore do for hunger what he did for global warming with An Inconvenient Truth? That's the goal of Action Against Hunger, a NGO dedicated to tackling world hunger. To recruit Gore, the organization has started a guerilla marketing campaign that makes it appear as if their film, No Hunger, is Gore's next film. A little investigation on their web site reveals that the group is r...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo via Flickr by foxypar4 While the economy has put a damper on fireworks for July 4th in towns like Yonkers, N.Y., Springfield, MO and Flint, MI which can’t afford the $35,000 to $100,000 that go up in smoke after the brilliant bursts. But plenty of dazzling displays will fill the skies. Sound un-American to skip fireworks? Last year’s poll about fireworks saw treehugger readers fairly...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Peter Ferrara, Harvard Law, Class of 1979. Image credit: Harvard Law Bulletin, David Deal . Peter Ferrara, who served under US Presidents Reagan & Bush, just tossed an Independence Day stink bomb at tree huggers and climate realists. Fox News, FoxForum, carried his opinion piece, " Sarah Palin Outsmarts the Left " in which he listed good things that Sarah Palin can do for environment...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Image via Seppo Leinonen Ecopreneurist is highlighting some art from Seppo Leinonen, a cartoonist out of Finland, who perfectly captures that tongue-in-cheek tone that makes acknowledging the environmental destruction we're imposing on the planet nearly digestible. ...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo via Tech On Sanyo's Eneloop Solar Charger has been on our radar for awhile, and we like watching what new devices they come up with. They're now planning on putting out a rechargeable lamp designed specifically to be a multi-tasker. Anytime a device is made to serve more than one function, our ears perk up. Plus, the interesting shape of this thing is enough to garner some attention. ...
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