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New Book Concludes That Fish Feel Pain Too

Flickr Commons I caught a fish once; the hook went right through its eye. It was too small to keep and I was disgusted as I pulled the hook out, the eye came with it. I never fished again. Fishing friends told me not to feel bad, as fish don’t feel pain; Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News says otherwise. She talks to Victoria Braithwaite, Professor of Fisheries and Biology, School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pocket Shelter Built From Scrap For 72 Bucks

Image credit: Aaron Maret TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited. ” You can help: Enter the LifeEdited design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and the opportunity to design the apartment! LifeEdited sponsor Architizer presents Aaron… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pocket Shelter Built From Scrap For 72 Bucks

How Much Insulation Can You Put Into An Old Building?

Images credit Building Science TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited. ” You can help: Enter the LifeEdited design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and the opportunity to design the apartment! Graham wants to build the greenest apartm… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Small New York Apartment to Receive Radical Revamp with LifeEdited Competition (Slideshow)

Credit and more images: gaborrieger TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited. ” You can help: Enter the LifeEdited design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and the opportunity to design the apartment! I have been spending a lot of time over at Jovoto , looking at the amazing entries. I have bee… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tiny Transformer Apartment Has Moving Walls, Dropping Beds and More

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited .” You can help: Enter the design competition and win up to $70,000 in prize… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tiny Transformer Apartment Has Moving Walls, Dropping Beds and More

Weekday Vegetarian Thanksgiving: Mushroom Thyme Gravy

Photo: Kelly Rossiter What is Thanksgiving dinner without gravy? Just because you are having a vegetarian meal doesn’t mean you have to forgoe what is to me, one of the most important elements of the dinner. Gravy ties all of the flavours on the plate together. Not only that, everyone likes to sop up their gravy with mashed potatoes or

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BrightShelf Throws A Curve At The Traditional Lightshelf

Image credit Lloyd Alter One of the simplest technologies for getting more natural light into an interior is the lightshelf; it bounces light off the ceiling instead of carelessly wasting it on the floor. I have thought that it might be a great thing in Graham Hill’s apartment in the LifeEdited project. Brightshelf throws a curve at the traditional flat lightshelf; this wave form on the top spreads the light out a lot farther, making a dramatic difference in the light penetration…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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David de Rothschild on Crossing the Pacific in the Plastiki (Podcast)

To shed light on the plight of our plastic-laden oceans, David de Rothschild built a sailboat from 12,000 soda bottles and took it clear across the Pacific. With TreeHugger-founder Graham Hill as a crew member, the Plastiki charted a death-defying course to draw attention to one of the planet’s great ” plastic gyres ,” swirling accumulatio… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Help Design, Build an Ultra-Low Footprint Apartment: The LifeEdited Project (Slideshow)

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily on less money with less space, less stuff and less waste — but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited .” Graham wants to find the best ideas and suggestions from readers. Using “social co-creation” or crowdsourcing on the Jovoto competition platform, he’s launching a design competition of ideas — with prizes for the best ones, which will then be implemented in the renovation. TreeHugger is proud to be a media sponsor of the project — and now, the Jo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Full-Sized Urban Bicycle Folds Flat, Nearly Disappears: The ThinBike (Interview, Slideshow)

All images courtesy Graham Hill. Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is an insatiable tinkerer/designer who strives for elegant design solutions. His latest foray into problem-solving, a collaboration with bike manufacturer Schindelhauer bikes , has resulted in what he calls the ThinBike — a full-sized urban bicycle that all but disappears when brought indoors. Graham shares with us some of the thinking behind his idea. Love it? Pick up your own via special order through Schindelhauer. TreeHugger: What is about that living in inner city apartments that has focuse… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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