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5 Green Things We Really Need More Of

Photo courtesy Pink Sherbet Photography via flickr and Creative Commons . The continuous flow of press releases through the TreeHugger mailboxes is truly astrounding, and mostly inspiring. So many green entrepreneurs, with so many great ideas! After a while, however, a discernible pattern appears of the products that continue to flow into the market. Green, sustainable messenger bags, no shortage there.

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5 Green Things We Really Need More Of

Bury Cardboard Boxes to Grow Trees

“This is what can happen when you order 8 plates, 4 large, 4 small.” Photos by Rev Dan Cat Recycling that does double duty. Ship a package and the recipient could plant 100 native trees from seeds embedded in The Life Box for a little woods of Hemlock, Sycamores and Birch trees. Created by mycologist Paul Stamets (one of Treehugger’s Top 5 TEDsters), the boxes are infused with seeds and spores. Instead of breaking… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Amazing Lamp Powered by Algae, Water, and Your Breath

Susana Camara Leret Treehugger has noted before how one can generate electricity from algae ; Now Designboom shows a lamp designed by Mike Thompson that uses the principle. Place the lamp outside and the algae generates electricity during photosynthesis; it gets stored in a battery and released when needed. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Amazing Lamp Powered by Algae, Water, and Your Breath

BREAKING: US Justice Department Launches Criminal Investigation of BP Oil Spill

photo: banspy via flickr I can here the collective cry of ‘Right on!’ and ‘About effing time!’ rising up from the TreeHugger readership… CNN is reporting that US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the Gulf Gusher. We’ll have more as it emerges, but this is what we know so far:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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