Some incredible news about the success of its first year comes from Ecosia — the search engine site which committed to donating 80% of its profits to a green cause announced it managed to contribute a whopping $160,000 to WWF’s Jureuena rainforest project in Brazil during Ecosia’s very first year of operation. Amazing! … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Green Search Engine Ecosia Donates Over $160,000 By 1st Birthday
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Photo: Takayanagi Will Ship Next Spring Some electric cars try to be as practical and mass-market as possible, while others aim for uniqueness and beautiful design (maybe someday we’ll have a combination of both). The Takayanagi Miluira Retro EV definitely falls in the second category. The electric 1-seater looks kind of like a car from the 1920s with a bit of steampunk aes… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Turning More Heads Than a Tesla? The Beautiful Miluira Retro Electric Roadster from Japan
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Image credit: Matthew McDermott , used under Creative Commons license. (This photo was taken in Copenhagen, not Cancún.) From a point-by-point debunking of his slideshows , to the House of Lords telling him to stop using their emblem , Lord Monckton is one of the m… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lord Monckton Crashes Climate Business Lunch
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All images via www.pokodesign.com We love this join-the-dots co-creative design for a New Year’s greeting card by our very own TreeHugger Barcelona correspondent Petz Scholtus . When not reporting for these very pages Petz is a product designer with a passion for communicating environmental issues through her work. She has created the We Need More Trees card to celebrate our imminent entry into 2011, which ha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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We Need More Trees: Greeting Cards by Petz Scholtus Celebrate 2011 Year of the Forests (Interview)
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Olin Studio ARC Competition; PDF here Designboom reminds us of the ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition, , to promote “innovation in feasible, buildable context-sensitive and compelling design solutions for safe, efficient, cost-effective, and ecologically responsive wildlife crossings.” It is proposed for Vail, Colorado,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Wildlife Crossing Competition Finalists Propose Amazing Bridges
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photo: Bernard Pollack / Creative Commons I’ve asked before why so many people hate environmentalists . But, to be fair, the hate runs both ways. There are plenty of greens who like nothing more than to point the finger at eco-villains —you know, those planet marauding evil doers who hate t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Anti-Environmentalists Don’t All Hate the Environment
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Residents of the Kaz Mountains (pictured) in Turkey are worried about the impact of gold mining. Photo: B@ni / Creative Commons . With few legal or political avenues open to fight what they say is illegal and environmentally damaging mining, four Mongolian activists took drastic action earlier this fall: They opened fire with hunting rifles on gold-mining equipment owned by two foreign firms, China’s Puraam and Canada’s Centerra Gold…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Mining No Golden Opportunity For Turkey, Mongolia
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Photo credit: NRDC You’d be hard pressed to think of anyone or anything that has done more to protect the American environment over the last 40 years than John Adams and the organization he founded, the NRDC . The National Resource Defense Council may not boast a name that rolls off the tongue, but they do boast perhaps the most impressive legacy for using the law to stand up for the environment. Adams’ new memoir, A Force for Nature tells the story of that legacy. I… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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An Insider’s Look at the Formation of the NRDC and Birth of the Environmental Movement (Book Review)
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Image credit: Forum for the Future , used with permission. As Lloyd reminded us, Alex Steffen once posted on the now sadly discontinued Worldchanging a fabulous piece called My Other Car is a Bright Green City . And yesterday, Lloyd also posted about a bike advocate complaining about the electric car hype that is so rife in the media (this site … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How Cities Must Change Radically in Face of Population Growth
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Image credit: Avon Wildlife Trust Lloyd has noted that sprawl is the death of us all , and we know that managing sprawl is more about proper planning than it is about fancy LEED-certified buildings. But given the fact that new housing continues to be built, often on previously unused land, how do we manage the pressure on wildlife and habitats… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Could Housing Developments Fund Nature Reserves?
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