Image credit: Audubon NC Whether or not BP was burning sea turtles alive , the Gulf oil spill did kill a lot of these endangered creatures . But the news hasn’t been quite so grim elsewhere. In fact on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina—where there has been an ongoing feud between off-road enthusiasts … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Record Year for Sea Turtles Follows Off-Road Vehicle Restrictions
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Image credit: Hennepin County Library in Minneapolis. Eliminating waste. Walking instead of driving. Taking ” Staycations ” instead of flying. Fixing things instead of buying new. Car-pooling. All these things that we talk about on TreeHugger were considered a necessity 70 years ago during World War II. Where today we see Web sites and public service announcements, then they did posters — sometimes funny, sometimes a bit over the top, and sometimes graphically quite beautiful… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posters from the Past that Can Guide Us in the Future (Slideshow)
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Image credit: The Association to Preserve the Earth, via Japan for Sustainability Harris Teeter may be stretching the concept of local food more than most, and industrial agriculture may be making efforts to go green , but with the 100 Mile Diet still going strong as a cultural phenomenon, the idea of labeling… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Labeling Food Miles Catches on in Japan: Does It Help?
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Image credit: Torontoist The photo above comes from an account of a rather extreme case of bike rage documented over at Torontoist . But TreeHugger is no stranger to the animosity between bikes and motorists either. From the Tucson driver who laughed at killing a “gay frenchman” cyclist , through to the Asheville man shot in the head for riding a bike in a busy road with… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A Calmer Form of Bike Rage: Write In and Complain
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Photo via TED We’ve featured the work of cartoonist Jim Toomey before. He has a knack for educating readers on the issues surrounding marine litter and ocean pollution without the lecture-y tinge that too often turns people away. But how does he do it, and why? Toomey was on the Mission … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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TED TALK – How Cartoonist Jim Toomey Infuses Sketches with Activism
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Image credit: Purple Harry From recycling bikes for inner city youth to a truly massive hoard of reclaimed bikes somewhere in England, one of the most endearing things about bicycle-based transportation is the relative ease and economy with which individuals can maintain, and even rebuild, their trusty stead. But sadly, bike maintenance may be a dying art. All too often, bikes are purchased as a consumer item and discarded wh… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bike Floss: The Next Step in (Disposable) Sustainable Bike Maintenance?
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We do go on that flying is dying , and have complained before about the carbon footprint of private jets . We often complain about ostentatious monster homes. But I have never seen anything like a slideshow in the Telegraph of the interiors of the Monster Houses of the sky, the private jets of African dictators and other heads of state. They are a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Wretched Excess Dept: The Interiors of Private Jets
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Image credit: The Journey TV From bike co-ops in LA , to this massive stash of recycled bikes somewhere in the UK, one of the most encouraging things about bike transportation is how egalitarian it is. Almost anyone can learn the art of bike mechanics. And there are plenty of community-based organizations willing to teach you. Check out the video below the fold to see how a free bike workshop helps bring a community… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Gentle Art of Community Bike Maintenance (Video)
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Image credit: Low Carbon Communities Challenge Even conservatives cheered when one Transition Town received a huge Government check , and with good reason. As part of the massive Low Carbon Communities Challenge the idea, for once, was to explore how grassroots groups could work together with Government, rather than the usual false choice between either top-down or bottom-up approaches to sustainability. I’ve just come acr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Inspiring Film: Uniting Government Policy With Grassroots Action (Video)
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Image credit: SyncStudios I’ve never been much of a gamer, but I did always enjoy the constructive challenges posed by games like SimCity and its later spin offs. That’s why I kind of liked the idea of a Facebook game that lets you nurture virtual chickens, and rescue real ones too . It seems a UK company has been having similar ideas—developing an iPhone app that allows you to plant a virtual tree and help it grow, meanwhile securing real tree in the Peruvian rainforest. So c… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can Your iPhone Save a Rainforest? Nurturing Virtual Trees to Save Real Ones
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